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...suspicious natives. On display are more than 120 original prints and drawings, some of them - Cow, Shoes, Flowers, Red Lenin, Hammer and Sickle and Absolut Vodka - chosen to suit uncomplicated local tastes, Bycko says. There are also such Warhol personal effects as a snakeskin jacket, green-tinted sunglasses, a scrap of paper titled "Calligraphy Fragment Found in Pocket of Andy's Leather Jacket" and historical records mentioning Warhol's parents, both ethnic Ruthenians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than 15 Minutes | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

Harvard representatives said last night they are willing to scrap what they have often described as the project’s “centerpiece”—a tunnel to connect the two buildings, which is the only piece lacking official permission—in order to leave the negotiations behind and begin construction on the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tunnel Talks Screech To Halt | 7/12/2002 | See Source »

...later on in some comments that were distributed to the media pack by a pool reporter. The once-upon-a-time champ and fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites - at least for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyson-Lewis: Little Boy in the Ring | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has emphasized his commitment to women's rights, but his government hasn't tried to modify or scrap the Hudood ordinances, which were put in place more than 20 years ago by a previous military dictator, Zia ul-Haq. Human rights activists say the laws, and their abuse, help promote the very extremism that Musharraf is trying to fight in Pakistan. When Musharraf first learned of Zafran Bibi's case during a meeting with foreign reporters in Islamabad earlier this month, he was startled. "Is that the law? Now? I don't even know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blaming the Victim | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...asking. As he ended a visit to Britain and headed for the U.S. last week, his first priority was to see Israelis and Palestinians resume talks halted 15 months ago, when Ariel Sharon became Israel's Prime Minister. Abdullah faces pressure from activists, students and political parties to scrap Jordan's peace treaty with Israel. He is resisting for fear that ending contact with Israel would only make matters worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq and a Hard Place | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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