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Since the U.S. runs second only to Israel as an object of radical Islamic hatred--and since much of the Arab press simply doesn't report pro-American news--Bush knew that a few bighearted photo ops weren't going to have a lasting effect. And the protests in Pakistan and Afghanistan did not abate. Neither did the flood of starving refugees coming over the border from Afghanistan. The situation in Pakistan was already unstable: President Pervez Musharraf was taking huge risks for supporting the U.S. against the Taliban, and as a result had limited American access to Pakistani military...
...ancient art of balloon sculpture has long bewitched art historians everywhere. Indeed, balloon sculpture can be seen as a defiant assertion that an object made purely for the pleasure of the populace can be re-defined as an aesthetic object with multi-dimensional resonance beyond its superficial meaning as the most mundane of all party decorations. We can see this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art” through the medium...
Interesting considerations have to be made when constructing objects, such as the fact that attaching colored tape to a block with toothpicks might not be the best option, because if the object were to fall, the picks could hurt someone’s head. (Pipe cleaners were the accepted alternative.) Also, the structure had to be “designed for resistance to average storms and be able to be quickly removed if a major hurricane is predicted,” according to a technical description...
...know about comicbooks but do you know about comicboxes? "Stripburger" #28, subtitled "Miniburger," ($20; Stripcore) and "Non" #5 ($22; Red Ink Press) both have to be unpacked before you can do any reading, turning them more into object d'art than ordinary books. Tiny print-run, hand-made mini-comics have explored this holistic aesthetic extensively, but there have been few such works produced on a "mass" scale. They offer a new kind of reading experience for even the most jaded comix connoisseur...
...Israel, but also strongly critical of the Islamist extremism that had taken hold of sections of Egyptian society over the past two decades. "When students on campus would discuss the activities of the Islamic groups who were active on campus and in the student union," says Khalifa, "he would object to their activities from A-Z. He was against them and what they stood for. He was a person who always held a position in the center. He hated extremism. He knew God, but I never saw him pray once. I never saw him give out money for charity...