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...gesture of lifeless grandiosity. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Ismail Serageldin, director of the technical department at the World Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people." The most spectacular of all, said Serageldin, "may be the basilica in the Ivory Coast. In all the mosaics, the only black person is the portrait of the President." Yet a young local woman asks a Westerner...
While the world was recoiling in shock from the visible inhumanity, Western reaction was more rhetorical than real. Under pressure to do something -- anything -- the U.N. Security Council passed a vague resolution that provided for "all measures necessary" to ensure delivery of relief supplies. Observers could be forgiven if they somehow got the idea that the U.N. had authorized the use of force to stop the war and end the barbarities. That was hardly the case. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger spelled it out carefully: "What we are talking about is the provision of humanitarian assistance...
...their landlocked Himalayan kingdom and into the flashbulb glare of Barcelona's Olympics. Anxiously consulting an astrologer before they left, Bhutan's Olympians -- all archers -- had never boarded a plane before, or experienced summer heat. The Olympic Village was almost the size of their capital, Thimbu. And the biggest shock of all, said Namgyal Lhamu, was "the sea," which she, like the others, had only read about at home. "I thought Barcelona was going to be peaceful, like Thimbu," added a cheerful Pem Tshering. "But it's so busy!" High-rise buildings, spiceless food, subway trains -- everything was a source...
...recently won a tough but deft battle against the drivers' and mailers' unions, which means that a new color-printing and distribution plant in New Jersey can begin operating. Those readers who managed to live through the Styles section will go into shock in the spring of 1993 when several of the Sunday sections go to color...
...mobs that torched and looted South Central Los Angeles last April reacted to the verdict with primal rage. Few Americans condoned the violence, but many shared the rioters' shock and amazement at the trial's outcome. After all, the grainy videotape of Rodney King's 81-second beating at the hands of L.A. cops looked like a clear-cut case of police brutality against an unarmed and helpless citizen. A flawed state prosecution, a shrewd defense and a white suburban venue had conspired to produce the stunning outcome: acquittals for four officers. When federal authorities indicted the four last week...