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...between the oil workers' union and the rigs' owners, U.S.-based Transocean company. Hostage taking is not uncommon in the Southern Niger Delta, where much of the population remains extremely poor despite the country's vast petroleum resources. Race to the Finish argentina Presidential hopefuls Carlos Menem and Nestor Kirchner kicked off their campaigns for the May 18 runoff after leading the first round of voting with 24% and 22% of the vote, respectively. Both Menem, a proponent of the free market, and the center-left Kirchner are members of the divided ruling Peronist Party. Menem is a two-time...
...those same polls show that Menem, 72, of the Peronist Party, is the surprising front runner in this Sunday's presidential election. Although his numbers are relatively small--18.3% vs. 16.8% for his closest competitor, Santa Cruz Governor Nestor Kirchner, another Peronist--half of those polled say they think Menem will win. As bad as Menem may have been as President, say Argentine pundits, his successors (incredibly, there have been five since the 2001 crash) created an even bigger mess, and jaded Argentines have apparently decided that Menem is as good as their politicians will ever get. Menem...
...Argentines in poverty and 24% of them unemployed. Yet those same polls show that Menem, 72, of the Peronist Party, is the surprising front runner in this Sunday's presidential election. Although his numbers are relatively small - 18.3% vs. 16.8% for his closest competitor, Santa Cruz Governor Nestor Kirchner, another Peronist - half of those polled say they think Menem will win. As bad as Menem may have been as President, say Argentine pundits...
Though better known in Harvard’s music community as a performer, Adams’ focus in the classroom was on composition. He studied under Leon Kirchner, but rebelled against the academic model of composition that dominated Harvard’s music department—atonality and the twelve-tone method of Schoenberg...
...waves. In Germany, Van Gogh and Matisse inspired so-called Expressionism, and the Merzbacher collection has 40 examples from the two groups of artists that pioneered the movement. The first, based in Dresden, called itself Die Brücke (The Bridge). The paintings of Erich Heckel, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluf look like a clash of Van Gogh meeting Nietzsche: fierce color contrasts are used to depict a passionate intensity. In Heckel's Red Roofs (1909), the evening scarlet of the tiles spreads out across the flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house...