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...learn Chinese. One study found that nearly a quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have to tell the truth: all candidates will be asked if they've ever been convicted of a felony, and lying when they answer...
...OLIVER STONE, Hollywood director, who has joined a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to retrieve three hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, the nation's largest guerrilla army...
...It’s important because it’s the next two games on our schedule,†head coach Katey Stone said. “I don’t think it’s necessarily more or less significant because of the loss...
...Moore's appeal? Maybe that he had domesticated Surrealism. Moore took the biomorphic forms of Surrealist sculpture and painting, detached them from associations of shock or disgust, and reconciled them to the long traditions of the human figure. Even his first more or less Surrealist work, a small stone sculpture from 1932 called Composition - which is not in the show at Kew - is one that Moore developed out of sketches of a child nursing at a woman's breast. Compare it to the grotesque exaggerations of Picasso's 1928 Bather (Metamorphosis 1), a work that Moore knew and which Composition...
...over $345 million last year. Such numbers are being driven not so much by traditional buyers from Europe and the U.S. but by big-spending Chinese and Indian collectors, alongside other wealthy new players, from Russian oil barons to Middle Eastern magnates. They are united in what Jonathan Stone, Hong Kong-based business director of Asian art at Christie's, describes as a cultural fascination with China - an enchantment the auction houses hope to extend to the rest of Asia. "The globalization of the art market is greater than it ever has been," Stone says. Observes Malaysian lawyer, author...