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...That's the secret of this character, and Bond and John McClane and all the other action-movie studs. They are a projection of American power - or a memory of it, and the poignant wish it could somehow return. In real life, as a nation these days, we can achieve next to nothing. But in the Bourne movies just one of us, grim, muscular and photogenic, can take on all villains, all at once, and leave them outwitted, dead, disgraced. That's a macho fantasy of the highest, purest, most lunatic order...
...That approach appears to be working. For Cloud Gate, which has performed at arts festivals in Shanghai and Guangzhou in recent years, the return invitation to the Chinese capital carries political weight - seen as the mainland's nod toward the island's contemporary-arts scene (even if not to the nascent Taiwanese democracy in which the arts have thrived). Mainland Chinese are "beginning to realize what has happened in Taiwan's artistic environment over the last 40 years," says Hsu Po-yun, director-general of the International New Aspect Culture and Education Foundation, a Taiwan arts-promotion body. "They take...
...Taiwan. The Chinese government still views the museum's holdings as stolen loot, spirited away by Chiang Kai-shek's army when it retreated to the island in 1949; curators in Taipei don't dare let the artifacts travel to the mainland for fear that they might not return. (Sportingly, China has loaned objects in the other direction - earlier this year, the National Palace Museum received 12 sets of rare 12th century porcelain from Henan, and gave them big play in a grand reopening exhibition following a long renovation...
...Matzliach peace would likely mean once again uprooting himself and his family - he nows runs a falafel shop in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967, and whose return to its Syrian owners remains a basic requirement for peace with that country and normalization of ties with the wider Arab world (as Arab League envoys visiting Jerusalem last week reiterated...
SOFIA, BULGARIA Nurses return after eight years in Libyan prison...