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...these photos and remember that when violence is institutionalized, this kind of madness will erupt sooner or later. I don't usually consider myself a sensitive person, yet when I looked at the eyes of that man begging for his life, my tears would not stop. JONATHAN BROWN Helsinki...
...sell natural gas, for example. It was fought through legislation, such as America's Jackson-Vanik amendment, which linked Soviet-American trade to improved human rights, especially the emigration of Russian Jews. Diplomacy played a huge role. The Soviet Union routinely and brutally violated the provisions of the Helsinki treaty on human rights, for example. But looking back we realize that the fact that Moscow signed this treaty provided substantial leverage both for homegrown activists (like Anatoly Scharansky) and the outside world...
DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...
Holl's other signatures? One is a unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, the creator of Finland's beloved Moomin trolls; in Helsinki. Jansson wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED...