Editorial Roundup
Jyllands-Posten
— on Putin considering becoming Russia's prime minister AARTHUS, Denmark
Russia has had a hard time with democracy ever since the Soviet Union collapsed, and during his nearly eight years as president, Vladimir Putin has made no effort to push development in that direction, although it has been his declared...
Read More
|
With its slick marketing plan, reservation roots and list of healthy ingredients, the Tanka bar could be the first national break-out product in the US made on a reservation
Indians count on an old friend’s appeal
By Kim Severson
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Perhaps the trickiest thing about launching the Tanka bar, a sweet, smoky energy snack made from buffalo and berries, wasn't developing the recipe or designing the package. It was describing MySpace to the leaders of the Great Plains tribes.
Read More
|
A Russian billionaire is seeking to transform himself from brash capitalist to cultural philanthropist in little more than a decade
For Soviet-era architecture, a white Russian knight emerges
By Nicolai Ourossoff
THE NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK
On most nights, the Russian Samovar, a dimly lighted restaurant at the edge of the theater district in Midtown Manhattan, is a gloomy blend of new Russian money and faded emigre glamour.
Read More
|
In a small university town in Sweden, vandals destroyed seven large photographs, part of an exhibition titled “The History of Sex,” by the New York artist Andres Serrano
Gallery vandals destroy photos by Andrés Serrano
By Carol Vogel
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night.
Read More
|
Attackers left a tear close to four inches long in the painting “The Argenteuil Bridge,” at the Orsay Museum
Intruder punches hole in a Monet in Paris
PARIS
Intruders broke into the Musée d’Orsay early Sunday and one of them damaged a work by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the latest in a series of acts of vandalism and thefts at cultural sites in France.
Read More
|
For all its ingratiating aspects, a Renoir exhibition in Philadelphia is more than just good
When Renoir left the parlor for fresh air
By Roberta Smith
THE NEW YORK TIMES
PHILADELPHIA
Pierre-Auguste Renoir may be the last numbingly famous Impressionist painter whose achievements can still be fought over. There are, of course, his sensitive portraits of adults and children; enthralling images of men and women relaxing in the sun-dappled parks of Paris; lush still lifes; sparkling landscapes; and his demure yet voluptuous nudes.
But what about his saccharine images of buxom young women and apple-cheeked mothers with children? Or the acres of late nudes whose ponderous staginess looks back to Rubens and forward to Botero? The aspersion "kitsch" has been cast their way.
Read More
|
Republican political connections ran deep in his family long before Erik Prince founded Blackwater in 1997
Where war and politics meet, Blackwater founder thrives
By James Risen
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON
Erik D. Prince, the crew-cut, square-jawed founder of Blackwater, the security contractor now at the center of a political storm in both Washington and Baghdad, is a man seemingly born to play a leading role in the private sector side of the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read More
|
A biography of Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip, has some of his family members shocked and upset
Biography of ‘Peanuts’ creator upsets family
By Patricia Cohen
THE NEW YORK TIMES
David Michaelis first contacted the family of Charles M. Schulz seven years ago about writing a biography of Schulz, the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip. It turned out that Schulz had read Michaelis' biography of N.C. Wyeth, and that Schulz's son Monte also liked the writer's work. Monte Schulz ended up helping to persuade the rest of the Schulz clan to cooperate with Michaelis, granted full access to his father's papers and put aside his own novel writing to help him.
Read More
|
Seemingly seeking a quid pro quo, Georgia now has the second-largest troop presence among American allies in Iraq
Russia on its mind, Georgia flexes its muscle in Iraq
By Andrew E. Kramer
THE NEW YORK TIMES
KUT, Iraq
The United States has found an unlikely ally in the struggle to block what U.S. commanders suspected to be Iranian weapons smuggling in this rural agricultural region south and east of Baghdad: soldiers from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Read More
|
Despite his bonanza with his newfound US partners, the investigators allege that Tomislav Damnjanovic, who is based in Belgrade, has continued to flout UN sanctions
For Balkan shipping agent, war is good for business
By Nicholas Wood
THE NEW YORK TIMES
NIS, Serbia
For the past four years Tomislav Damnjanovic has played a crucial role in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2003, he has delivered millions of rounds of ammunition, guns, grenades and mortars to the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.N. officials say, facts he does not dispute. His aircraft have even been used to shuttle supplies between U.S. bases in Iraq, saving troops from having to make hazardous trips by land.
Read More
|
As Israel’s Jews start a new year, the country finds itself in the middle of a fierce dispute over a religious mandate that requires land to be left fallow every seven years
In Israel, religion’s traditions clash with modern economy
By Steven Erlanger
THE NEW YORK TIMES
JERUSALEM
As Israel's Jews start a new year, the country finds itself in the middle of a fierce religious dispute about the sanctity of fruits and vegetables.
Read More
|
Diary
By Guido Minerbi
FOR THE HERALD
Some Herald readers may not know Adrián Paenza, a brilliant Argentine mathematician with a knack for making mathematics attractive and accessible to the layman.
Read More
|
In the battle against cancer
Researchers find hope in a toxic wasteland
By Christopher Maag
THE NEW YORK TIMES
BUTTE, Mont.
Death sits on the east side of this city, a 40-billion-gallon pit filled with corrosive water the color of a scab.
Read More
|
Coronary CT scans may offer valuable insight for those looking to find the cause of their high cholesterol, but are there risks?
CT scans of the heart come with trade-offs
By Jane E. Brody
THE NEW YORK TIMES
When my LDL, or "bad," cholesterol rose alarmingly (and for no apparent reason), I tried changing my diet. When that didn't work, the obvious answer was the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. But first, several people urged me to have a CT scan of my coronary arteries.
Read More
|
Fallen dictators can no longer count on a comfortable haven abroad, safe from extradition
Living in exile isn’t what it used to be
By Simon Romero
THE NEW YORK TIMES
CARACAS, Venezuela
Just last year, Gen. Romeo Lucas García’s quiet death in exile here caught the attention of few people outside Guatemala, where he had presided over a ruthless period of civil war in which 37 people were burned to death during a siege at Spain’s embassy. Spain tried to extradite him in 2005 on human rights charges, but had gotten nowhere.
Read More
|
China helped George W. Bush on North Korea. Can it do the same on Iran?
Look who’s Mr. Fixit for a fraught age
By Steven Lee Myers
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON
George W. Bush, embattled at home, tied down in Iraq and watching the clock run out on his presidency, has found a diplomatic crutch in an unlikely place: China.
Read More
|
Publisher Adriana Hidalgo has released Sagarama, a collection of stories by the late Brazilian writer João Guimãraes Rosa
Nine stories, while you wait for the novel
By Rodrigo Orihuela
FOR THE HERALD
The novel Grande Sertão: Veredas has been called the Portuguese-language Ulysses many times, and its author, João Guimãraes Rosa, has been repeatedly compared to James Joyce.
Read More
|
A guitar God’s memories, demons and all
It is one of the most mythic romantic entanglements in rock 'n' roll history. At some point in the late 1960s, Eric Clapton fell in love with Pattie Boyd, wife of his close friend George Harrison. Clapton's 1970 masterpiece, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (recorded with his band at...
Read More
|
Editorial Roundup
The Independent
— on saving smokers
LONDON
Given the harm that smoking is known to do to people's health, why are smokers not offered something safer than tobacco? Something that would satisfy their craving for nicotine and in the process save some, even most, of the one billion lives that smoking is...
Read More
|
World of wine
Our genuine, emblematic grape
By Dereck Foster
for the Herald
Nearly all of the top, outstanding wine areas and/or countries that come to mind, are identified by one (or at most two) grape varietals that are the foundation of their reputation.
Read More
|
is that so?
Asia conquers the world
By Howard Nelson
for the Herald
Nobody can deny that one of the most frequented, and multiple choice sectors of a supermarket today is that which is devoted to yoghurt and yoghurt related products. During the 20th century the incursion of this Asian specialty into our western diet has been truly remarkable, to the point of it becoming a staple wherever one shops for lactic products.
Read More
|
Art on display
• NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - Av. del Libertador 1473. Tel. 4803-8814, 4803-8817 Permanent Collection (paintings & sculptures). European art, 12th-20th centuries. (ground floor). Argentine art of the 19th-20th centuries - permanent collection (first floor) -Spanish Art from the collection of the Museum- Precolumbian art - Maria Helguera, sculptures...
Read More
|
|
