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In 1917 Matisse relocated to Nice, in the south of France, and in much of his work over the next three decades he would return - you might say retreat - to more conventional renderings of space and form. Decades passed before other artists began to draw out the full implications of...
Palin then traveled some 250 miles northwest to join the Tea Party assault on Harry Reid in his ink-dot hometown of Searchlight, Nev. (pop. 738). Despite fears of unrest and a crowd of several thousand angry activists, the Searchlight event turned out to be a tame affair, mostly vague...
In 2009, Chinese authorities likely executed thousands of people--more than any other country--according to an Amnesty International report published March 30. The human-rights organization said it was unable to give an exact figure, citing China's "lack of transparency," and it called on the government to end...
In a show of solidarity with imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of the National League for Democracy opposition party voted March 29 to sit out Burma's upcoming elections, which are the military-controlled state's first since 1990. Despite winning that contest two decades ago, Suu Kyi...
Two female suicide bombers struck Moscow's subway system during the Monday-morning commute, killing at least 39 people in the worst terrorist attacks to hit the city in six years. Ever since the two bombed stations were reopened later the same day, stunned Russians have wandered the damaged platforms...