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...walls of pieces don’t have to be that thick. I used a ‘pull and pinch’ method.” Professor Blier then focused on Odundo’s work in the context of African art’s importance to the Western world. “To me, one of the reasons I love African art is because the primacy of sculpture,” she said. “In [Odundo’s] works as well, it is almost as if the work becomes a new work as one moves...
...from you / and though they are with you yet they belong not to you / you are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”Although his Arabic background is highly emphasized by his followers, to the point of hushing up his Western upbringing—on the back of my copy, George Russel writes, “I do not think the East has spoken with so a beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali”—Gibran does not speak for “the East.” Quite...
...Swedish and Finnish banks competed for customers in Europe's fastest growing region. Entrepreneur Lepik recalls firing off an e-mail loan application in 2006 with a "very basic" business plan, and getting approval in less than a week. Private debt across the Baltics rose from nearly zero to Western levels as consumers became hooked on credit. Home buyers and businesses took out mortgages in foreign currencies, which had the effect of worsening already severe current-account deficits. In a peculiarly Estonian twist, companies in the tech-savvy country began offering high-interest short-term loans by mobile phone. Borrowers...
That's a question being raised in other parts of Eastern Europe these days, too. By one estimate, net banking flows into the region, most of them originating in Western Europe, will fall from $219 billion in 2007 to just $74 billion next year. Sweden's Swedbank, which not long ago earned a fifth of its profits from the Baltic region, has seen its stock price halve in the past year over fears of exposure to bad loans, and on Oct. 27 it announced a $1.5 billion rights issue to bolster its finances. Two days later Austria's Erste Bank...
...maiden address to the Russian Parliament, President Dmitri Medvedev blamed the United States for Moscow's war with Georgia and for the world financial crisis. Washington, Medvedev said, was threatening Russia's security with the creation of a missile defense system and new NATO military bases around Russia's western and southern flanks. "We have gotten the clear impression that they are testing our strength," Medvedev said in his speech, which was made on the day U.S. voters elected Barack Obama president, and which at times recalled Soviet era rhetoric. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...