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With a per capita income of more than $21,000 a year, on par with much of Western Europe, Qatar has found that wealth keeps discontent down. Still, many ordinary Qataris display anger over U.S. policies in the Middle East. "If you are coming for peace, good," says computer-science student Mohammed Lari, 21. "But if you are coming to fight a war, then we don't like...
Soon the bone-box will leave Israel for the first time to go on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But the bone fragments will not go with it, nor will the owner allow them to be displayed or analyzed. He brandishes a Tupperware container. They will stay right here. Who needs trouble with the rabbis or with Israeli customs? The ossuary has delivered enough mystery into the world for now. --With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/Washington, Matt Rees and Matthew Kalman/Jerusalem and Tala Skari/Paris
...during the downsizing era. He "was feeling his oats a little bit" during the dotcom boom and "became a little more insolent and sarcastic at work," in the words of his creator, Scott Adams. Now, says Adams, Dilbert has "reached a depth of cynicism." That cynicism is on full display in the first new Dilbert book to appear in four years: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, about to be published by HarperBusiness...
Blurring boundaries is the kind of stuff you'd expect from any of the four nominees for Britain's Turner Prize, whose work went on display in London last week, setting off the usual firestorm of controversy over what constitutes art. (British Culture Minister Kim Howells dismissed the nominations as "conceptual bullshit.") Well, now the French have a prize that's designed to start the same kind of arguments. The Marcel Duchamp Prize, named after the father of Conceptualism, aims to do for French contemporary art what the Turner has done for the British. As this year's winner, Gonzalez...
...ethereal glow emanates from a jeweled menagerie of flowers and animals ensconced inside long cabinets in a darkened room. Visitors wield flashlights handed out at the entrance to "The Jewels of JAR," a homage to the innovative designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal at London's Somerset House. The shadowed display is modeled on his exclusive shop near Place Vendôme, Paris. Only around 70 unique pieces are hand made every year, and this is the first time his work has been shown to the public. Rosenthal, 60, is famous for creating a pavement of tiny stones that enables subtle color...