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...current sitcoms, for instance, is about show business), Big Love is a surprising detour to the reddest of the red states. In the drama, which debuts in summer 2006, characters declare their faith as easily as those on Deadwood swear. Co-creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, neither of whom is Mormon, say they were interested in the conflict within Bill, who came from a polygamist compound but now lives in the mainstream suburbs of Salt Lake City. The fundamentalists, says Olsen, see the LDS Church "as sellouts and apostates." Mainstream Mormons, he adds, "wish the compounds would...
...Force One landed in Brussels for the start of his first foreign trip since winning re-election, the man of action gave himself over to the art of conversation. "You might call this a listening tour," he said during a press conference with nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. "People have got things on their mind and they want me to hear...
...Nongovernmental organizations complain that NATO is too thin on the ground to provide security. "The NATO Secretary-General said the alliance was ready" for an Iraq mission, says a top French Defense Ministry official. "But between Kosovo and Afghanistan, we have plenty to do." Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer argues passionately for an alliance presence. "All the allies realize that the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq," he says. "We can't let that country develop into a failed state." The E.U.-U.S. relationship is also being tested over NATO involvement in Iraq. Even before the Iraq...
...that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries...
...tools for international justice indeed are political and economic pressure. These have been applied for years to assist a legitimate war-crimes tribunal whose indictments merit enforcement. Fear of turmoil usually precedes justice. Over time, Milosevic's joust with international justice will undergird Serbia's emerging democracy. DAVID J. SCHEFFER U.S. Institute of Peace Washington...