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...fluffy. Boudin, then in his mid-20s, painted them outdoors, with rapid brushstrokes, and sometimes recorded the date, time and wind conditions on the back. He encouraged his friend Monet to try the same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies at his home in Giverny. Senn, an opinionated and eclectic collector, appears to have bought Boudin's work because he liked it, not just to support homegrown talent. He didn't seem to care for other artists with local connections like Dufy or Georges Braque...
...Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving...
...Lower Saxony - Schröder's home state - in 2003. In April, it was forced into a grand coalition with the cdu in Schleswig-Holstein. The state polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states are represented in the Bundesrat, or upper house of parliament, which must approve about two-thirds of legislation passed by the Bundestag, or lower house. "The election in North Rhine-Westphalia is an extremely important decision," Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement, a former governor of the state, told Time. "With our reform policies, we've had to impose a lot on people...
...engulfed? Place your bets. - By Adam Smith Counting The Hours British workers on average put in 217 hours per year more than the Germans, 220 more than the French and 319 more than the Dutch, but their heavy workload may be about to lighten. Last week the European Parliament voted to scrap a British exemption to E.U. rules that limit the workweek to 48 hours. Employers complained that such restrictions could undermine the British economy's strength. "Here we are with the most successful economy in Europe, we've got the most flexible labor market, people earn good money...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees and World editor Romesh Ratnesar for his first magazine interview since securing passage of his disengagement plan in the Israeli parliament. Excerpts...