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About two dozen of us stood with unlit candles, gathered in front of Memorial Church to remember the swiftest and most violent bloodletting of our time--the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dusk would blend into night with the grace of a returning spring, but none of us noticed. Our attention was instead focused on a slew of academics, activists victims who with a moving mixture of eloquence, pomp and passion, described those three months of unbridled insanity and lamented the rediscovered hollowness of slogans like "Never Again...
...Gustave Dore and the paintings of Impressionist Claude Monet, which use contrasting strokes of color to create a sense of light and space. "We want the audience to respond to our film the way we respond to fine art, not to a comic book," says art director Kathy Altieri. None of this comes cheap: the film costs about $65 million if you ask DreamWorks, and almost twice that if you ask the competition...
...round-good-guy of the American art world has been gathering strength for years; and since 1989, when he was paralyzed from the neck down by a catastrophic stroke and had to learn to paint all over again from a wheelchair, he has become something of a legend. None of this bears on the quality of his art, of course. But you can't help reflecting, as you look at his infinitely laborious portraits in which one vastly enlarged face after another is elaborated into a moonscape of pores, wrinkles, blackheads, stubble and multiple highlights, that sheer determination...
...None of us will know the issues behind David's death," Epps said. "I think that in some cases you can't reach the person. The advising system can't resolve the internal struggle...
STORMONT, Northern Ireland: The politicians have done their job; now it's up to the people. Since none of the parties involved actually signed anything, today's agreement was less a binding deal than a codification of proposals that will be put to a referendum in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, tentatively scheduled for May 22. "The issue is now less whether the parties accept the proposals, but whether the voters accept them," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. Parties that opt for opposition after studying the proposals would have to persuade the electorate to vote against...