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...time when the career of the man who was once the world's most famous literary novelist is in deep crisis. The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) was the last in a string of superhits that began with Midnight's Children (1981). Rushdie-watchers were divided about The Ground Beneath Her Feet(1999), but almost no one was prepared to stand up for Fury (2001), which tells the story of a middle-aged thinker who makes a fortune as a TV doll-maker, then flees a bad marriage and goes to New York. There, while falling in love with...
...Pompidou seems to be looking for such middle ground. "The idea of a thematic show is not automatically against the idea of chronology," Grenier says. "We can mix them." The enthusiastic response to the current installation suggests there will be no going back when the Pompidou reopens all its floors in 2007, its 30th anniversary. Already the curators have been asked to propose alternatives. This unexpected change in Pompidou philosophy, Grenier says, "is the real Big Bang...
...Only Kesayev's commission of inquiry has broken new ground, forcing prosecutors and military officers to admit that rocket-launched incendiary grenades and tank shells had been used, details that had previously been denied. Russian officials say these weapons did not cause the fire in the school, and tanks were called in only after all the surviving hostages had been freed. Kesayev, who was in the Russian emergency command center in Beslan throughout the crisis, also claims that the Kremlin deliberately failed to respond to an offer by moderate Chechen guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by Russian special forces...
...There's little to suggest that Schr?der can pull off a third straight election victory. The SPD has clawed back some ground?it notched up one percentage point in the polls, from 29% to 30%?and the Chancellor himself got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination last week for his opposition to the war in Iraq. But none of the other signs are good. The party hasn't been able to capitalize on the CDU's rocky first few weeks of campaigning. Unemployment is still at a record high and a recent uptick in economic growth may have come too late...
...Here is a classic tension: How much restraint should one branch of government show when it feels another is not showing enough? The Rehnquist Court holds the record for tossing out congressional statutes, often on the ground that Congress is muscling in on state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school...