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...April 1966, TIME posed a simple question on a now famous cover: "Is God Dead?". That question remains a rich and perennial subject of dialogue - partly, no doubt, because the current Pope is keen to engage with those who answer it in the affirmative. With reporting by Francesco Peloso/Rome
...artistic journey of Indonesia's great painter, Sindoutomo Sudjojono (1913-1986), was as complex as his favorite subject - Indonesia's independence and development. During his early career, Sudjojono eschewed the prevailing style of painting because its naturalistic, European conventions smacked to him of colonialism. Instead, he took up socialist realism, and put his brush at the service of the country's communist party. By the 1960s, he had switched from propaganda to Pop Art. Toward the end of his life - disenchanted by Suharto's right-wing regime and shunned by leftist artists who felt he had betrayed them - Sudjojono turned...
...Bless his heart, President of the United States--a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy--you name the subject.' NANCY PELOSI, Speaker of the House, mocking George W. Bush after he scolded Congress for legislative inaction...
...Bulgaria and Romania were subject to special monitoring when they joined the E.U. in January 2007, because neither country was considered fully ready to meet the Union's probity standards. But while Romania was criticized in today's report, the Commission is not stopping aid to Bucharest. (Bulgarians grumble that Romania is just as corrupt, but has been smarter at marketing its reforms and hiding the abuses...
...Chinese and Koreans dead. To this day, an uneasy armistice prevails. A formal peace treaty has never been signed. The war left writers as well as politicians strangely silent. Korea inspired no All Quiet on the Western Front, no From Here to Eternity, no Dispatches. Most books on the subject are military histories, bristling with regimental acronyms that only a quartermaster could love. (William B. Hopkins' forthcoming eyewitness account of the Marines at Chosin, One Bugle No Drums, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C., neatly avoids this trap.) Knox's book does not entirely forswear such an approach...