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...Allah. It seems likely that his motivations are not religious, but a desperate attempt to unite the Arab world against encroachment by America and the West. His appeals to religion are practical steps towards this end because Islam is one of the few things, aside from geography, that bind together the Arabs of the Middle East...
Taking the position that patriotism can threaten democracy, Nicholas C. Murphy ’02 wrote, “If we let our sorrow and rage blind us, if we begin to sacrifice those things that bind us together as Americans and perhaps more importantly human beings for the sake of retribution, we have compounded the tragedy one hundred fold, for we have then allowed a few murderous zealots to undo in one day what we have worked almost 250 years to build...
Decades ago, the great New York City painter Stuart Davis christened one of his pictures Colonial Cubism--a splendidly witty reference to the dilemma American artists found themselves in when they looked across the Atlantic to Paris. How could you get out of the colonial bind--the sense of being condemned, in the name of avant-garde aspiration, to imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after...
...Spanish figurative sculptor known for creating large architectural installations; of a heart attack, in Ibiza, Spain. Mu?oz was at the height of his career: last year he won Spain's national award for the plastic arts. And in June the Tate Modern in London unveiled his latest work, Double Bind, which was commissioned for the museum's largest exhibition hall. The massive structure incorporates elevators that rise and fall through a patterned floor, beneath which miniature human figures are visible. DIED. FRANCISCO ("PACO") RABAL, 75, veteran Spanish actor who appeared in more than 200 films and worked with directors Luis...
...than the by the political and diplomatic crisis the standoff had provoked. Indeed, Tuesday's plea by Israeli defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer to foreign minister Peres to step up diplomatic efforts to resolve the Beit Jala crisis suggests that the military had found itself in something of a bind. Its presence had escalated rather than curbed the firing at Gilo, and a long-term reoccupation of the town would carry damaging political, diplomatic and security consequences. The U.S. had publicly warned Israel that it was breaking previous agreements and demanded a withdrawal...