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...spotless Venus Jewel factory, each pressing his thumb on an electronic fingerprint scanner that releases a turnstile. After removing footwear, to ensure they don't leave with diamonds stuck to their soles, the cutters are handed plastic bags filled with rough diamonds. Operating lathes and lasers, they slice, polish and facet the cloudy crystals into sparkling gems, churning out about $150 million worth each year. Venus and several hundred other factories, employing 300,000 cutters in total, have made Surat the heart of India's thriving diamond-polishing industry, which last year cut 92% of the world's diamond pieces...
Imaginative sets added polish to a well-thought-out performance. Bravo to cast and crew for a job smartly done with an extremely challenging production...
...Meseznikov, head of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava. "It's not good for the country," he says. "Our image abroad will suffer." Governments in the Czech Republic and Poland are also struggling. Support for the Czech Republic's ruling Social Democrats is at a low at 14.5%. Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced in March that he will step down May 2 - a day after his country joins the E.U. - after his ruling party split amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement. There is similar turmoil in Lithuania, where deputies voted to impeach scandal-plagued President Rolandas Paksas...
...House closed, the museum has hosted some 30 shows featuring artists like Spanish sculptor Mart?n Chirino, Dutch painter Ad Snijders and Slovak painter Peter Poll?g. Coming up are "True Colors," the work of 68 U.S. artists responding to Sept. 11 (April 6 to May 23), and a retrospective of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (May 25 to June 17). Although no longer obsessed with Van Gogh, Polakovic honors the artist's legacy in Danubiana. "His idea with Yellow House was to create a community where artists could meet, work and show their works," he says. "Danubiana aspires to be such...
...getting awfully lonely at the top for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Their austerity drives have angered voters, alienated supporters - and inspired the creation of new leftist parties to oppose reform. Since coming to power in 1998, Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has lost 125,000 members - 16% of the total - primarily because of the government's effort to cut back the welfare state. According to a recent Forsa poll published in Stern magazine, 64% of those surveyed think Schröder's reforms are wrong, and 76% find them...