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...gloom my Arab contacts see one ray of hope-James Baker, the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group. Most Gulf Arabs-Sunnis, to be sure-look at Baker as a friend. Baker was the brains behind the U.N.-sanctioned coalition that drove Saddam out of Kuwait. Baker had the sense to leave Saddam in power, knowing full well the alternative was civil war. The Iraq policy Baker put in place in 1992 gave the Gulf eleven years of peace...
...pain in her side and was told by the doctor that she had coughed so much that she had torn rib cartilage. In fact, he said, she was lucky not to have actually cracked a rib, an occurrence so common that she was routinely sent for an x-ray...
...Fine Arts (Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles) in Brussels. The concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and it runs in Brussels through January. The festival also includes a rare retrospective of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray and ends with a performance from renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. For complete program listings, visit bozar.be...
...Atlantic Records was her cover of Otis Redding's Respect, a song that, released in the midst of the racial and sexual tumult of 1967, meant so much to so many people. It remains her signature anthem--and for good reason--though its overexposure means that her versions of Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and her emotionally delicate performance of Do Right Woman--Do Right Man are criminally overlooked...
...this sense he was as close in spirit to Keith Haring as he was to Klee, and if the book has a fault, it's that it stints on his formative punk years in the '70s and '80s, assuming everyone has read Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar's Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (1997). As they documented, it was his 1981 mural Primitive, named after a song by The Cramps, that saw Arkley paint his way from an abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush...