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...crowds that have come to Venice for the Biennale seem a little dazed by the sun and heat - it's 36C in the lush gardens of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and everybody is wearing linen shorts, T shirts and sandals. Everybody, that is, except the mountainous man striding through the gardens in his dark suit and tie. Thomas Krens is hard to miss in any setting; in Venice, he attracts knowing glances from the art world crowd. Even at the Biennale, a premier event on the international art calendar, the big American may be the biggest show in town...
...also had a problem. Formerly the Nashville Network, in 2000 it decountrified and became the National Network. The name--which sent the resounding message "This network is available in all 50 states!"--left viewers unsure what TNN was, except those who thought it was still about Nashville and were surprised to find it running Blind Date instead of Tim McGraw videos. Once a perennial cable top 10, the network saw its ratings drop to 14th place...
...editor is massaging his (or probably her) pale, prominent brow and asking, "How the hell did I do that?" That person is the editor of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, a beautiful, sensitive, melancholy novel of exactly the sort that's usually overlooked by the reading public. Except that it wasn't. The Lovely Bones inspired immoderately enthusiastic reviews (including one from this reviewer), sold more than 2 million copies and levitated onto the best-seller lists, where it still sits a year later...
...Because most of the 3 million people who find themselves in C.-and-R. centers each year belong to the country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...
...police wouldn't dare touch us." He had to laugh when the police took credit, four-and-a-half years ago, for one of his own kills. "He was a hit man, too, sent down from Lahore by a rival political party to get me," the assassin recalls. Except that the assassin tracked the newcomer down first, gunning him down at a crowded intersection. He adds, "The cops don't arrest the criminals; they only arrest the weakest." This allegation is echoed by a top police officer. He explains that often when a murder occurs, "We'll grab somebody?anybody...