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...hardware. U.S. officials say it is unclear how much control Musharraf has over Khan, but they believe that many leaders with nuclear ambitions keep his name on their Rolodexes, and so may some terrorists. Khan, who is revered in Pakistan, is said to have a penchant for feeding stray monkeys and a weakness for the high life. Lying low is not the sort of thing that comes easy to him, but he may be forced to learn how as the crisis on the Korean peninsula deepens. - By Unmesh Kher and Tim Burge follow the money britain In Baghdad's looted...
Life is tough among the squatters of Helsinki. But in Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past, it's also blessed with stray kindnesses. An electrician wires up the storage bin, and when the Man (Markku Peltola) asks, "What do I owe you?" the electrician answers, "If you see me facedown in the gutter, turn me on my back." A Salvation Army worker (Kati Outinen) gives the Man Christian charity, and a bit more...
...there any way to generalize about Asian art? Not usefully, which the Houston show makes clear. There's no master key to both Kuichi Uchida's stately Portrait of the Empress, from 1872, and Daido Moriyama's feral Stray Dog, from 99 years later. The sheer multitude of Asian sensibilities is the first lesson that the explosion of Asian art has to teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi...
...recent Valentine’s Day bop, had a traffic light theme. If you were taken you wore red; if you were up for being “pulled,” you wore orange; and if you were up for being pulled by any stray farm animal, you wore green. For me, it was really a utilitarian calculus—would wearing green ultimately make me less pullable? I went orange...
...Feinstein insisted that the rise in college basketball’s popularity and its huge revenue stream has caused schools to stray from what should be their top priority—the athletes...