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This gathering of the living and the dead and the vows of vengeance have become a weekly ritual for Iranian families since the conflict with neighboring Iraq began to reap its harvest of victims, estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000. The graves at Behesht-e Zahra are tightly...
The Imam, as Khomeini is now called, towers over Iran with all the power and prestige of Darius, one of the most famous of the pre-Islamic Persian kings. Khomeini's image is everywhere, painted in oils and hung in heavy frames in hotel lobbies and government buildings and vacant...
The dramatic growth in museum-store sales partly reflects the sheer variety of products. These range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Staple items include postcards, calendars, notecards and posters. Beyond that, the potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a...
Some argue that grand classicism must be reserved for public buildings. A refutation of that theory is the absolute beauty of Michael Graves' headquarters for the Humana corporation in Louisville. A dense collage of lush textures and elements, novel but never freakish, the highly sculptural tower conveys the joy of...
How can "half blind, senile and emaciated" Andrija Artukovic be tried for his wartime activities in Yugoslavia [WORLD, Feb. 24]? If found guilty, and there is no doubt that he will be in Yugoslavia, to whom will justice be done? He will not be able to understand the proceedings. Such...