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...Menachem Begin, Eisenberg paid a call on the then Prime Minister and said that he could use his influence to open China to Israeli goods -- mostly military -- if Begin would give him exclusive rights to all weapons deals. It was a time when China was looking for first-rate military technology that it could not obtain from the West. For its part, Israel was eager to reduce its defense costs by selling overseas and to increase its influence over a country that supported Israel's Arab enemies. No other Israelis were doing business with China, so Begin, according to this...
...obviously, was Hieronymus Bosch. Another was the decorative art of Islamic Spain, with its precise yet often hallucinatory stylization of animal and vegetable shapes; the first sign of its incursion into Miro's work is the 1918 Standing Nude, whose sturdy body, pleated with Cubist (or at any rate, cubified) wrinkles, poses against a drapery covered with arabesques and birds. And then there were the mosaic inventions of the Catalan artist Josep Maria Jujol, who was working for Gaudi when Miro was a teenager, and whose wandering line and isolated words set in tile clearly stayed in Miro's mind...
...seems likely, the conditions set by financiers will probably be tough. Commercial banks have refused to bail Mexico out until it has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. And the IMF will not help until the country has slashed its domestic budget and reduced an inflation rate that may exceed 90% this year. The more Mexico tries to placate its creditors, however, the more it unsettles its people. Earlier this month the price of tortillas quadrupled overnight. Next month the cost of a Mexico City subway ride is likely to increase from one peso to 50. Such developments...
...Gore was right. For all the hot air expended talking about climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions continue, at a rate of about 70 million tons a day. The gap between the scale of the threat posed by global warming - it is potentially civilization-altering - and the solutions so far proposed - change a light bulb - are obvious and disheartening. Gore realized that back in December. "We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis," he said. "Our policies have to shift...
...Graham said Asani's reputation has not "suffered much" from the delay in tenure. "He's recognized internationally as a first-rate scholar," said Graham, who has served as chair of NELC...