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...words of Professor Amnon Rubinstein, a respected parliamentarian identified with the Israeli Left, in the Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2009: “The suffering of the people of Gaza is…[a] tragedy…[that] could disappear overnight if Gaza was governed by leaders who prefer life and peace to death...
...that Farrah had such a fresh face. She was the girl next door. So if you were a teenager, you could bring this in the house and put it up in your room - as long as Mom didn't look too closely. Once her poster became such an overnight success, the other actresses from Charlie's Angels contacted the guy and wanted to do posters too. There were many that followed. And none of them came close...
...prices and attracted speculators, generating a frenzy in India similar to the ones that engulfed the U.S. and European markets. An Indian auction house, Osian's, even began marketing a sort of mutual fund for fine art. Artists, too, developed unrealistic expectations. "Everyone wants to be Damian Hirst overnight," says Mumbai gallery owner Jai Bhandarkar...
Speaking to the opposition website Kasparov.ru, Elena Dudukina of the Voronezh human-rights protection group Voronezh-Chernozemye said Shchednov was asked to give the police a $95 bribe to avoid arrest. When he refused, he was detained overnight and, according to Dudukina, beaten while in custody; Voronezh police say an investigation into the allegation is under way. A trial was scheduled for June 15, with Shchednov charged with "uncensored swearing in a public place." But the artist never showed up in court, so the hearing has been postponed. (See pictures of the fashions of Russian Czars...
...Khamenei had publicly requested the attendance of all the main players in the political drama that has roiled Iran since the disputed election. Reports on Thursday suggested that opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi encouraged his supporters to attend the event, but overnight word circulated that he and reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi had urged their followers to stay away, although the authenticity of those claims could not be verified. Indeed, the latest reports confirm that Mousavi and Karroubi were themselves conspicuous by their absence from Friday's prayers. Ahmadinejad, however, was in attendance as was fellow politician Mohsen Rezaie...