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IKEA, the Swedish home-furnishings giant, is in expansion mode, especially in the U.S. and Russia. Although he is retired, IKEA's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, 78, regularly visits some of the chain's 204 stores in 33 countries. Last month, he talked with TIME's DODY TSIANTAR in the restaurant of the Elizabeth, N.J., store. Some excerpts...
...peace process has taken knocks before and survived. What may make this crisis different is that the robbery happened as the I.R.A.'s activity is supposed to be winding down for good. In December, I.R.A leaders were talking about destroying all their weapons; they promised to enter "a new mode" if a final peace deal was reached. But now that deal looks further away than ever...
...ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable but are coming soon to a skyline near...
...theory in the past 50 years has been to debunk myths of absolutisms. And, of course, I also see that despite my pretensions to addressing broader issues in my art, my desire for social meaning could easily be dismissed as merely my own idiosyncratic mode of personal expression...
...says the form allowed for a different mode of exploration of politics. “I felt I could capture another dimension of power through fiction,” he says. “Academic writing tends to generalize, while fiction tries to particularize. It tries to use one image to illuminate the larger truth...