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...French and American governments have been quietly improving--but to ensure that any war has a U.N. seal of approval. A carefully crafted Security Council resolution should do the trick, as it should for the Chinese--similarly opposed to the unilateral display of American armed force--and the Russians. "Russia isn't going to mess up its relationship with the U.S. because of Iraq," says a Foreign Ministry source in Moscow. To be sure, Russian support for the U.S. will come at a price. Major Russian oil companies like Lukoil have interests in Iraq but, with...
...giant leap backward for pop stars in space last week when the Russian space agency denied 'N Sync member LANCE BASS a place on its October mission. The agency raised the velvet rope after a consortium of Bass backers failed to cough up the $20 million cover charge required for entry onto the Soyuz space capsule. Bass had been training in Moscow and Houston, completing maneuvers in zero gravity and learning Russian, but his backers, including a production company hoping to film a documentary of the trip, missed several payment deadlines. Bass's seat will not go empty...
...Sept. 29 with the launch of www.chewra.com. The website, an online database free to anyone with Internet access, contains personal data on the deceased, a photograph of the tombstone and a copy of the inscription (along with a translation into Czech) for each documented grave. English, German and Russian translations may follow. Other sections of the site explain things like Jewish burial practices and the significance of the religious symbols carved into the stones. Haidler's project is unique in the Czech Republic, both for its digital presentation and for its effort to preserve an aspect of Jewish culture that...
...depict a passionate intensity. In Heckel's Red Roofs (1909), the evening scarlet of the tiles spreads out across the flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house and garden have become hallucinatory. Expressionism's second group, originally based in Munich, was made up of the Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the German Franz Marc and the circle around their one-issue journal, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). As the journal's name hints, this artist group was concerned with the romantic and mystical. The collection's seven paintings by Kandinsky show him unshackling color from objects...
...wage peace," makes an unlikely anti war activist. He grew up in a military family and became an intelligence officer after college, where he studied Soviet history. Even early in his career, Ritter courted controversy. In 1991, after his first marriage - to his college sweetheart - ended, he married a Russian woman he met while posted in the former U.S.S.R. Despite initial suspicions that the translating service she worked for was being used by the Soviets to gather intelligence through "attempted sexual compromise," he satisfied himself that "this did not appear to be the case." He dismisses as "a form...