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...suspended head image reappears in “Untitled (Lilypads),” where a turban-crowned man emerges out of a motionless lake of lily pads, his mouth enclosing a lily flower. The lily pads show the rust-brown of decay which lends the print an authentic, natural and autumnal feel...
CHINA Labor Troubles China's efforts to reform its industry brought thousands of workers onto the streets in the rust-belt cities of Daqing and Liaoyang to protest stopped wages and welfare benefits. Hundreds of armed police ringed Liaoyang's government offices and arrested three labor leaders who tried to arrange talks with officials. The whole northeast region is suffering massive unemployment as the state closes down inefficient and outdated factories...
...What can't be denied, however, is that in China's vast and troubled rust belt, workers are cautiously but increasingly taking collective action. In the urban wasteland of Zhengzhou in Henan province in central China, more than a thousand kilometers from last week's protests, workers have braved arrests and beatings to protest the closure of their factories. More workers are traveling the country, making contacts, liaising. "There's a level of organizing between factories that we haven't seen before," says Li Qiang of the New York City-based China Labor Watch, himself a former Sichuan construction worker...
Rove believes that ideological purity is not something real-world politicians can afford. (Last week he helped persuade Bush, the avowed free trader, to impose steel tariffs to protect Rust Belt jobs--and votes.) The same goes for impartiality, he says, since the parties are fighting for control of both the House and the Senate this November. "We would be making a mistake if we simply stepped off the battlefield when a lot is at stake and when a lot of people have rallied around one candidate who had become the presumptive favorite," Rove told TIME...
...deals to Congress on an up-or-down basis (no amendments), like campaign-finance reform tends to get bogged down in one Congressional body as soon as it passes the other. It can be rammed through, but it needs a push, and Bush now has to make sure his rust-belt charity cases remember who it was that pissed off the world to help them out, and to collect...