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...Artists who rejected political pressure and continued to produce "art for art's sake" did so discreetly, forming an underground movement later called the No Name Group. One of the genuine surprises in the Asia Society show is a collection of works from these largely overlooked artists, such as Ma Kelu's Morning Snow, a delicate Impressionist-influenced winter scene in blues, browns and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Red | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1965, Shinseki took a brief break from the military life, earning an MA in English Literature from Duke University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric Shinseki | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

Holiday Helper. Boston-area Hotel Indigo's special "Escape the In-Laws" package needs no explanation. You get a room, breakfast and a "Family Decompression Kit," complete with aspirin, aromatherapy oil and a bottle of wine, starting at $129 per night. Through Jan. 14, 2009. 399 Grove Street, Newton, MA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Great Places to Skate this Season | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...does not necessarily have to have the trademark registered in all goods and services in order to protect the mark from unauthorized use.” Last month, Harvard won a lawsuit against a Philippines-based jeans company that printed “Harvard Jeans USA, Cambridge, MA, Established 1936” on apparel without license from Harvard, even though the University has not registered trademarks there...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Company Rips Harvard Name | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...that the arrival of the Mahdi - a messiah-like figure who, Shi'ites believe, will ultimately defeat evil - will be presaged by the appearance of a messenger, a tall black man who will rule the West. Others read meaning into Obama's name. In Persian, O-ba-ma means "He's with us," and Barack Hussein can loosely be translated as "blessings of Hussein," an allusion to Ali's son, another imam revered by the Shi'ites. Obama's strenuous denials made no difference to these theorists: they simply reasoned that he must be practicing al-Taqqiya, or dissimulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Scuttlebutt: Pssst! Obama's a Shi'ite | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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