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...Wall. Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany. For März, 64, who sports shoulder-length gray hair and a walrus mustache, the exhibit attempts to distinguish art that stands the test of time from socialist kitsch. That meant excluding some well-known work from the period, such as Walter Womacka's idyllic couple in Junges Paar am Strand (Young Couple at the Beach), a Norman Rockwell-like painting that could once be found in many East German homes. Some critics complain that such exclusions constitute...
...administrators questioned Ginger, a professor who had done research on Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs. FBI files show that HBS had been given an anonymous tip that Ginger and his wife, civil rights lawyer Ann Fagan Ginger, were likely to be called before the Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Communism...
When a powerful politician was ar-rested last week in connection with the child-abuse scandal that has rocked Portugal since last November, it brought hope that the country's creaky, excruciatingly slow justice system was finally getting into gear. The detention of Paulo Pedroso, Socialist M.P. and former minister, was hailed by lawyers and commentators as a sign that the wealthy and influential were no longer untouchable. And so what if the police used investigating techniques that might be deemed unacceptable in other countries? Although not commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques...
...Hong Kong at present suffers from both a structural shift in the world's economic geography and a plague, the virulence and duration of which is poorly understood. Following the breakdown of socialist and communist ideology in China and the Soviet Union, and the end of policies of self-reliance and isolation on the Indian subcontinent, the developed world's economic sphere has been enlarged by the same factor as during the great era of European exploration.More than 3 billion people have recently joined the global market economy. This means Hong Kong has new competitors, as do Japan, South Korea...
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and his Socialist party, the largest advocates of the shortened work week, were trounced in the latest elections...