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...their jobs by law-enforcement services back home as cushy sinecures after years in the police trenches. Staff in Lyons worked regular office hours, took wine-soaked lunches in a city renowned for its excellent cuisine, and hit the nearby ski slopes on winter weekends. Few outside Lyons understood exactly what Interpol did, and its agents were regularly used as fictional mystery men, portrayed with creative inaccuracy in everything from Patricia Cornwell thrillers to The Da Vinci Code. Even now, a Google search for "Interpol" is likely to bring as many hits for a rock band with the same name...
...dashing out. These people have nowhere to go, yet they are eager to get there all the same. Big lectures lend themselves to anonymity, and no one can hold you accountable for choosing to sidle out at 12:57. But waiting for someone to finish a thought should be understood as common courtesy. You wouldn’t stand up and leave a friend in mid-sentence, nor make a break for the door in response to a TF’s question. Why should Tal Ben-Shahar (or Michael Sandel, or Steven Pinker) have to watch dozens of students...
...interest once again—this time, in different terms.“A lot of people didn’t understand, but when I talked to Kathy, she was the only one I felt comfortable talking to about this,” Markley says. “She understood more as a person, on top of being a basketball player. It was really exciting to hear someone say that they understood what I was going through, because no one really did.”“I wanted to see her face-to-face and talk about...
...half minutes to nearly fourteen hours. While few people will have fourteen hours to devote to the exhibition, viewers should plan to devote a good deal of time with the works. One of his explicit artistic purposes is to explore the passage of time, which can only be understood after the viewer passes time with Claerbout’s art.One of the earliest and most fascinating installations is the 1998 piece “Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia.” For the piece, Claerbout selected a black-and-white photograph from the early 1930s portraying the opening...
...this, I think, is beginning to be understood in Europe. With the election of younger, muscular Atlanticists such as Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, debate on security matters is moving beyond the peaceful pieties of the post-war generation to a recognition that the world really can be a dangerous place, and that sometimes the only way to combat that danger is by force. "Domestic politics has enslaved foreign policy to the point where it is endangering Germany's alliances," says Jan Techau, of the German Council on Foreign Relations. "German political élites need to speak about repositioning foreign...