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Few buyers take the most profitable -- and dangerous -- route of traveling directly to the mining cities to find a contact and cut a deal without middlemen. After weeks of travel, we knew how risky that could be, but we had also discovered that the KGB was running most of the...
Last, it will "carry" well, because Lichtenstein is a master of elision and compression -- and this is why his paintings manage, against all the architectural odds, to defeat Frank Lloyd Wright's hostility to any picture unlucky enough to fetch up in the Guggenheim. The one thing it will not...
Moscow Purge
Beijing -- Communist Party officials in China are launching a purge of corruption in the government and the military that could prove to be bloody. Wei Jianxing, head of the party disciplinary committee, recently told a closed-door meeting of the party's central committee that corruption has reached epidemic proportions...
The showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state...