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...Turkey could create a new crisis for the U.S. in Iraq. Indeed, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the U.S. would "pay the bill" for the disastrous consequences he warned would follow a Kurdish takeover of Kirkuk. The Economist sees the looming crisis over Kirkuk as another symptom of the trend of mainstream Kurdish political opinion toward a collision course with Bagdhdad...
...alienating their fans. European writers have spent years trying to explain fan violence. Some see it as a proxy for race or class. Others, like author Bill Buford, who described his four years with English soccer hooligans in the book Among the Thugs, came away believing it was the symptom of a "bored, empty, decadent generation." The culture is "so deadened," he wrote, "that it uses violence to wake itself up."--By Jeff Israely/ Rome. With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris and Hugh Porter/ London
Intriguing sign of the times or symptom of Broadway's creative poverty? Let's just say that in an era of soaring costs and a dearth of new plays with any assurance of drawing an audience, it's a perfectly logical commercial development. With only one salaried actor and minimal sets and costumes (unless you are Dame Edna), those shows are cheaper to produce than full-scale plays. "You've got a lot less risk with a one-person show and pretty much the same opportunity to make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone...
...past year; 54% missed some school or day care; 62% had to limit their activities as a result of their condition. "With today's treatments," says Dr. William Sears, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at Irvine and a consultant in the study, "these kids should be symptom free most of the time...
...next time I visited that gallery, I realized that maybe Kline hadn’t really spoiled Pollock for me, and that to think so was merely the symptom of overly dogmatic thinking on my part. After all, Kline could only really spoil Pollock if they existed as two competing entities on the same spectrum of a single quality (in this case, base materiality). But of course the relationship between two works of art, let alone the works themselves, are never actually that simple. And indeed, on my next visit the Pollock no longer looked boring compared to the Kline...