Word: jannings
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...freedom fighter at 75 has retreated a great distance from his initial description of De Klerk as ''a man of integrity.'' De Klerk is now simply the man he must do business with. The award has mixed consequences for both men. De Klerk, 57, must worry about the Jan Smuts syndrome. Smuts was the World War II Prime Minister of South Africa who was lionized abroad and discredited at home. Afrikaans- speaking whites are an insular tribe, and they turned out the urbane field marshal in 1948 for not attending to his own people. De Klerk's popularity is lower...
...language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol nor NASA responded adequately to internal warnings about the faulty seal design . . . There was a serious flaw in the decision-making process.'' The commission appointed to investigate the Challenger accident interviewed more than 160 people, held hearings that generated 2,800 pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly...
...other big complaint is about the introduction of contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant piece in the French magazine Beaux-Arts about the biggest show to date, an exhibition by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held earlier this summer in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a table strewn with feathered sculptures depicting the severed heads of seven owls in the same room as Van Dyck portraits, and a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones sharing a space with 21 Rubens depictions of Marie de Medicis. The show was part of a series called "Counterpoints," designed...
...ideas that leave many older games in the dust. Granted, board games are a niche hobby. However, the 250,000-plus people who visit the Essen Games Fair in Germany each year would be the first to tell you that board-game designs have come a long way, baby! Jan Velinger, Prague...
...made army chief just under three years ago and is coy about the extent of his power. In his first major interview with foreign media, he told TIME of the urgent need to clean up Bangladesh's cynical, venal and corrupt politics. Moeen looks back to what preceded Jan. 11, 2007, when the army intervened, and recalls chaos: "The situation was deteriorating very rapidly. The world saw people dying in Dhaka's streets. Was this the way forward...