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Argentine artist Pérez Celis moved comfortably through many media, producing innovative sculptures, paintings and murals and even recently illustrating a Spanish translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. While he exhibited his work around the globe and lived abroad for many years, his devotion was ultimately to his homeland and his favorite sports team. Two of Celis' colorful murals adorn the walls at the Buenos Aires stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors soccer team. He died of leukemia...
Since its founding in 1829 by Home Secretary Robert Peel (two slang terms for cops - "bobbies" and "peelers" - derive from his name), the Met has provided the model for city forces around the globe. It pioneered fingerprint technology and DNA evidence, and its experience in combatting terrorism stretches back to the campaigns waged by the IRA and the Angry Brigade - a tiny gang that went on a bombing spree in the early '70s. Even the criminal classes seem to have a grudging respect for the Met. Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner since 2005, recalls a 1980s research trip...
...Talking to Evil": It is one thing to sit down with other superpowers like China and Russia to help maintain the precarious balance of peace in the world [June 23]. It is quite another to sit down with those whose only goal is to destroy democracy across the globe and replace it with Islamic fundamentalism. Iran and Syria are not superpowers. Talking with them will only aid in giving our Muslim terrorist enemies the recognition and credibility they so desperately want. Jack Treese, SIMI VALLEY, CALIF...
After 9/11, the FBI and the military snapped up Cross Match scanners for deployment in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay to fingerprint al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Those prints, along with thousands of unidentified ones lifted from uncovered safe houses around the globe and from arrests made by allies, were fed into a classified terrorist-fingerprint database at the FBI's West Virginia fingerprinting facility. Cross Match scanners were sent to Iraq to book captured terrorists, insurgents and Saddam Hussein. (Saddam was annoyed, according to agents posted to Iraq. "This is how you treat criminals!" he is said to have...
...films, Li was mainland China's most gifted movie martial artist and Yeoh the preeminent fighting femme. They played together in only one previous picture: Tai Chi Master in 1993, the busiest year of the Hong Kong Renaissance, when the colony's robust movies enthralled action fans around the globe, and the leading actors were worked as hard as pre-teen seamstresses in a Guangzhou garment factory. (Li and Yeoh each made five other films that year.) Now both 45, they have lost little of their agility and none of their screen luster. Their duel atop the Great Wall...