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...quite clear who rules the roost. Played out in these textiles are imaginative alternate universes, where the deposed Pomare kings and queens of Tahiti live on in the triumphant tifaifai of Aline Amaru. With her kapa kuiki laden with royal insignia, Hawaiian Gussie Bento too unstitches the spread of colonization. To protest the overthrow of their monarchy in the late 19th century, Hawaiian women quilted native flags, which they hung over their beds. These days, quilters like Bento might colonize contemporary art spaces, but they're still staging their revolutions from within...
...Despite the public relief that greeted Ford's swearing-in, doubts about his fitness for the immense job he had been handed quickly began to spread. The fact that he would not have seemed out of place chairing a local Rotary Club meeting was, to many, a mark in his favor, another triumph of America's common man. But the nation in 1974 faced a number of complex and seemingly intractable problems. The cold war had grown even chillier after the Soviet support of the abortive October 1973 Arab attack on Israel. Then there were the agonizingly slow withdrawal...
...Until the government returns to the negotiating table, a solution to the south's problems could be a long way away. "The Thai government sooner or later will have no option but to talk to the insurgent leaders," says Singapore-based counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna. "Otherwise the violence will spread to other areas...
...institutions, from groups like the Revolutionary Guards Corps and the basij, a vast paramilitary network of students and other mostly young Iranians. Beyond that, he has indeed attracted strong support from nationalists for his defiance of the West and underprivileged Iranians who hope to benefit from his promise to spread the country's oil wealth around more evenly. But there are doubts about how long he can sustain that broader support. Less than halfway into his four-year term, many Iranians are griping about rising inflation and the economic and political risks in isolating Iran from the West. Both...
...prism of the impasse over its nuclear program, but its importance extends to U.S. concerns ranging from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab-Israeli conflict and oil prices. In toppling the Taliban and Saddam, Washington eliminated two of Iran's key regional enemies, and gave it an opportunity to spread its influence. Although the U.S. views Iranian support for Iraq's Shi'ite parties and militias as destabilizing, it can do little to stop it. And last summer's war between Israel and Hizballah showed the reach of Tehran's influence. Iran supported Hizballah and supplied it with sophisticated weaponry...