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...that Manny "frequently did these bird's-eye views (I call them table tops) in which the whole canvas is filled with figures, houses, objects, photographs, all seen from above, and frequently (not always) connected by train track that carries your eye all around the canvas. They always struck me as being like his writing about movies, where he puts before you this world of bright particulars picked out by his magpie eye and connected by his very original train of thought...
...comment further. He also dodged questions about the criticism he still attracts from Mike Huckabee, another of his primary season rivals who has argued in public that Romney could be a divisive pick for the Republican party. When asked the gotcha question of how many houses he owns, Romney struck back with a prepared answer. "One less than John Kerry," he said. "That's four...
Only a few weeks ago, the decades-long conflict between the government and separatist fighters seemed to be inching toward a political solution. On Aug. 4, negotiators for the Philippine government and the main insurgent group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), struck an agreement that would have set boundaries for an autonomous Muslim homeland, and, hopefully, dampened the insurgency. Yet, as has happened so often before in Mindanao, the center did not hold. After a challenge by Christian leaders in the minority-Muslim region who objected to the inclusion of some villages in the proposed Muslim area, the Philippines...
...Taliban now pack as a result is evident in the escalating number of attacks - and casualties - inflicted on NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. Indeed even as the French paratroopers were being cut down by Taliban snipers in a valley east of Kabul Monday, two separate suicide bombing attacks struck US bases elsewhere in Afghanistan. The growing frequency and audacity of Taliban offensives are producing a spiraling death count among international forces - 183 of whom have been killed thus far this year, compared to 232 fatalities for all of 2007. Significantly, an Afghanistan scenario once considered under allied control has since...
...Beijing, female athletes from the People's Republic have struck gold in more than 10 disciplines, from weight lifting and shooting to archery and gymnastics. The nation's women even proved victorious in rowing's quadruple sculls, an Olympic event that China's sports czars only began targeting seriously a few years ago. The same goes for beach volleyball, in which the country's women placed ninth in Athens. This time around, China's red-bikini-clad sand spikers are guaranteed either gold or silver in the Aug. 21 final against the U.S. On Aug. 18 - the same...