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...badly does the United Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have...
...Britain in London until Dec. 23). And a show at Tate Modern on London's South Bank, "Time Zones: Recent Film and Video" (through Jan. 2.), draws from the best international artists, all exploring the concept of time. In Untitled (Bangkok), Serb Bojan Sarcevic walks the alleys of the Thai capital, showing that the journey, not the arrival, matters. In Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying the sea with a cup, yet a soothing, contemplative one. Equally calm but with...
...Untitled (Bangkok), Serb Bojan Sarcevic walks the alleys of the Thai capital, showing that the journey, not the arrival, matters. In Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying the sea with a cup, yet a soothing, contemplative one. Equally calm but with a sinister undertone is Albanian Anri Sala's Blindfold. Blank billboards on Vlor? and Tirana roofs reflect the rising sun into the viewer's eyes, people hurry by on the street, and after a long stillness, a pallid hand emerges...
...Within a few years, all four Americans had wives. Dresnok married a Romanian, and they had two sons. After she died, he married a half-Korean, half-Togolese woman, and they had a son. Parrish wed a Lebanese Muslim, and they had three sons. Abshier married a Thai woman, but they didn't have children. (Jenkins says Parrish and Abshier are dead. Dresnok, he says, is still living with his family in Pyongyang...
...think one year from now, some things must be improved." THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, Thai Prime Minister, urging Burma to make democratic reforms before it assumes the yearlong chairmanship of asean...