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...movements" of late twentieth century art. Its name itself bespeaks a fundamental desire to create art perpetually in flux, to move art out of galleries and into unconventional spaces, to infiltrate commercial culture, to provide an alternative to restrictive formalism. An exhibition of Fluxworks, therefore, poses a perplexing curatorial problem. Nonetheless, under the direction of Benjamin Buchloc and Judith Rodenbeck, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT has recently attempted to put together a comprehensive show, called Experiments in the Everyday, of two artists active in Fluxus, Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts. Despite attempts to reconcile such anarchic art with...
...Communication is a huge problem, and it's something we would have to do better on," O'Sullivan says...
...have a Zoe Baird problem? A Clarence Thomas problem? A Bill Clinton problem...
...meets Thursday with Congolese president Laurent Kabila to discuss plans to deploy a U.N. force in the similarly troubled Congo later this year. "Holbrooke has been warning for some time of the danger of sending in forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because to control a recalcitrant guerrilla army in hostile terrain would require a military commitment far larger even than what...
Which is a problem, since unlike other conventional armies that find themselves confounded by poorly armed but elusive guerrilla opponents, the Sri Lankans are now outgunned by their guerrilla enemies. "The LTTE is better armed than the Sri Lankan army," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly. "In fact, a lot of their weapons once belonged to the army and were usurped by the Tigers when they overran the camps. The Tigers are also much more motivated than the army, which is facing problems of desertion and low recruitment because of the heavy casualties it has suffered in this conflict...