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...face of difficulty. His most important novel is generally considered to be Désert, published in 1980 and largely set in the Moroccan Sahara. A lyrical, occasionally hallucinatory work, it deals with the marginalized but still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic," Le Clézio said in a 2001 interview with the French newsmagazine Label France. "It places the greatest possible emphasis on its urban and technical side, thus preventing the development of other forms of expression - religiosity and feelings, for example...
...region, including Singapore, China and Indonesia. But Zhao Wuji's "7 Aout 2000" sold for $543,156 - over $44,000 short of Sotheby's low-end estimate of $587,500 - and several pieces, including paintings by star contemporary Chinese artists Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun, went unsold at the modern and contemporary Asian art sale on Oct. 4. Many say the unimpressive results were a combination of already overinflated price estimates and the dismal economy. "Particularly with the fund managers, if they are concerned with things happening in the world, they may be inclined to hold on to their funds...
...Those choices do not seem to include any slowdown in snapping up the work of rising Southeast Asian artists, however. The Sotheby's auction for modern and contemporary Southeast Asian paintings on Oct. 6 had better sales, with I Nyoman Masriadi's "The Man from Bantul (The Final Round)" selling for $1,006,356 - a record price for both Southeast Asian contemporary art and the Indonesian artist. While Chinese contemporary art is looking like it may be heading for a slowdown, Bashat says, "Southeast Asian art still has appeal in this sense: good value art at reasonable prices, and artists...
...will work to legalize assisted suicides for the next generation of doctors. He is currently running in Michigan for a seat in the House of Representatives. Kervorkian also spoke at length on what he said he perceived as the dishonesty, lack of discipline, and undercurrent of fear in modern society. Departing from the stated topic of his talk, he compared the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the actions of the Nazis. One audience member said he fundamentally agreed with Kevorkian’s views on civil liberties, in spite of the politically unpopular conclusions that the former doctor drew...
...This has been a long and careful process," U.S. Ambassador Robert Tuttle said in a statement yesterday. "We looked at all of our options, including renovation of our current building in Grosvenor Square. In the end, we realized that the goal of a modern, secure and environmentally sustainable embassy could best be met by constructing a new facility...