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...recognize Saudi Arabia, which also funds terrorism and denies human rights? Why recognize Pakistan, which produces nuclear weapons and helped create the Taliban, and not recognize Libya, which has been trying to cultivate our approval for almost a decade? Does anyone actually believe we would be in worse shape now on the Korean peninsula if we were talking to the North Koreans...
...Prête pour le Voyage,” or “Ready for the Trip,” a woman is stretched out horizontally in a coffin-like shape. Cauvin said in her gallery talk that slaves were also kept in coffin-sized spaces. She said the bright yellow hue covering the woman’s face was a bad omen, the color of drama, stress and death...
...Pope for “mentioning the Colonels to the Heavenly Father.” The colonels’ website, www.kycolonels.org, is also a one-stop shop for colonel merchandise, from official golf towels and “Taste of Kentucky” food baskets in the shape of Kentucky, to the autobiography of Maker’s Mark, “the world’s premier bourbon,” and all manner of “sipping tools,” from jiggers to julep glasses to flasks for the road...
...Classical music lacks the words which give such power to the other music which shapes my day, but the walk home from HRO always reminds me of why, 12 years ago, the desire to make some never-before-heard sound come out of a twisted mass of brass so captivated me. A symphony offers more than a single song, as it combines multitudes of emotions into one creation which both the musician and listener can shape into different messages from time to time. While the Tchaikovsky evokes passion, the Debussy piano solos I listen to every night as I fall...
...Philippines After two weeks of fierce fighting and bombings in Mindanao that left 200 dead, negotiations between the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the administration of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are in bad shape. Recent evidence linking the rebels to al-Qaeda has helped fuel a troubling escalation. The U.S., which last year assisted the Philippine army's efforts to eliminate Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on the southern island of Basilan, will soon send 1,700 troops back to the region, including 350 members of the special forces, to help finish the job. But this go-round they...