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...Manchuria with his family after the Russian Revolution and traveled widely in Asia, settling in South Africa in 1946. While critics blasted his colorful paintings of exotic beauties, fans lined up to buy his cheap reproductions, prompting the painter to remark that the main difference between himself and Van Gogh was that he was rich...
...OSAMA BIN LADEN really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust after WHITNEY HOUSTON? Those are some of the claims made in an autobiography -- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who says she was bin Laden's mistress in 1996. Boof, who wrote two scripts for Days of Our Lives, says bin Laden called Houston a beautiful woman "brainwashed by American culture and her husband, Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed." "Nobody in the West," Boof laments, "believes me when I tell...
...Just a couple hours after our interview, Chen was detained by security officials who had traveled hundreds of miles from Linyi to Beijing. They hustled him into a van and drove him back home. Chen recalled later that he kept asking where they were going but was given no answer. This time, his hands could give him no guidance...
...March, after trying to leave his home without official permission, Chen was again bundled into a police van. No one heard from him for months. Finally in mid-June, the local police announced that he was being held in prison on charges of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic. High-profile lawyers in Beijing flocked to his defense, calling the charges trumped-up. Meanwhile, the international profile of a blind man from rural China was steadily growing. TIME had named Chen to its annual list of 100 influential people. The U.S. State Department called for his release...
Star's debut on Aug. 2 was the Army's first step toward the planned October unveiling of its new interactive Web portal. Thousands have chatted with Star, typically staying on-site for 15 minutes--three times as long as the average visit before he went live. Major Brad Van Poppel, who works on the Web-outreach program, credits Star's "cool factor" and says he's fulfilling his mission: "When 85% of teenagers are online every day, the Army wants to be there...