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...rejected the decision to hold another poll and called for the creation of a new autonomous region. Some even threatened to join eastern Ukraine with Russia. The electoral impasse could crack the country along the acute cultural and political rifts that divide it. "We are dealing with a deep split in the country," says Andrzej Zalucki, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland, which shares with Ukraine a border that stretches more than 250 miles. "It's worse than just a political partition. It's ethnic and nationalistic. God forbid there's any kind of stupidity...
...much greater support among ordinary Palestinians than the more moderate--and more aloof--Abbas does. At 45, Barghouti also has the backing of younger Fatah leaders who are pressing for longtime Arafat confidants like Abbas, 69, to reform the corrupt regime. Barghouti's candidacy threatens to produce a major split in Fatah that might lead to violence if an election loser challenges the results...
...each class. "They wanted us to teach them American pronunciation," he says, a prospect that seems amusing considering many Americans would have trouble deciphering Jenkins' thick accent. Often the text consisted of translated utterances by Kim Il Sung, who became the North's first leader in 1948, when Korea split into two countries, and remained in power until his death in 1994. The classes studied the guerrilla fighters who took on Japanese soldiers during World War II and discussed the "news" students had heard that morning on state-controlled radio...
...Pollock no longer looked boring compared to the Kline, but refreshingly spare, more delicate and calligraphic than I remembered. Looking back at the Kline after realizing this about the Pollock, I noticed something I had completely missed before; the encaustic wasn’t all black, but was split into two zones, one of black and one of dark gray. Where the two tones met, the knobby protrusions of paint had a dark top and lighter bottom as if they had been carefully shaded to emphasize their three-dimensionality, and this lent the piece a shimmering, optical quality that presented...
...recent break-up wasn’t strictly from creative differences: in fact, many of the members of The High Ceilings offered their musical abilities during the production of their old comrade’s debut. The new album that Heinegg had been working on since the band split up is not so much an insult to his old faithful metal-rock fans, but merely an expression of his overlooked stylistic soft side...