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(CNN) -- The arrest of a Christian man accused of making remarks against the Muslim prophet Mohammed wasn't enough to appease an angry mob in Pakistan this weekend.

More than 100 homes of Christians were set on fire by outraged Muslims in the Badami Bagh community in Lahore on Saturday after police arrested Sawan Masih, a Christian in his mid-20s accused of speaking against Mohammad, officials said.

"Mob wanted police to hand them over the alleged blasphemer," said Hafiz Majid, the senior police official in Badami Bagh.

The mob also looted some shops run by Christians, he said.

Majid said Christians have fled the area for fear of being killed.

If convicted, Masih faces the death penalty. He denies the allegations made by the two men who filed the blasphemy complaint against him with police on Friday, Majid said.

Masih says the three got into an argument while drinking and that the other two men threatened to publicly accuse him of blasphemy, according to Majid.

"The attack is yet another shameful incident against a vulnerable community and further confirmation of the slide toward extremism in society on the one hand and, on the other hand, the apathy and inaction that has become the norm among the police," the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in a statement.

The group accused police of arresting Christians in the incident "while those who went on a rampage and can easily be identified from television footage have gone scot-free."

Pakistan's blasphemy laws were first instituted to keep peace between religions. But they have been criticized by human rights advocates who say the laws enable legal discrimination against religious minorities. At time, the laws have been misused to settle personal differences between Muslims and Christians.
1. Who was arrested?
2. What did he do, allegedly?
3. Does he admit to the offense?
4. What is his potential sentence?
5. What is the man's name?
6. And how old is he?
7. Who accused him?
8. What were they doing before the charge was filed?
9. Did they threaten him?
10. Was the public satisfied with his arrest?
11. What did they want?
12. How many homes were destroyed by the protesters?
13. In what community?
14. Which shops were also looted?
15. Who fled the area in feaer?
16. Why were blasphemy laws enacted?
17. Has it been successful?
18. Which group of people are skeptical of the laws?
19. What does this group suspect the laws allow?
20. Does the Human Rights Commission condemn or support the police?

Numbered answers:
1. A Christian man
2. Making remarks against Mohammed.
3. He denies the allegations
4. The death penalty.
5. Sawan Masih
6. mid-20s
7. 2 men.
8. Drinking.
9. Yes.
10. No.
11. For Masih to be handed over.
12. More than 100
13. The Badami Bagh community
14. Shops run by Christians
15. Christians
16. To keep peace between religions.
17. No.
18. Hhuman rights advocates
19. Legal discrimination
20. Condemn.

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The Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most creative architects of our times. He has incorporated both eastern and western ideas into his designs.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China on April 26, 1917. His father was a famous banker. In 1935, at the age of 17, he came to the United States to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy selected Pei to design the Kennedy library. After that he became well-known all over the world. People named it one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States. In 1968, Pei started work on the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Over one million people visited the building during its first 50 days in existence.

Following the East Wing project Pei's fame has continued to grow widely. In 1983, French President commissioned Pei to help make the Louvre more modern. Ten years later, the completion of Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre created a new historic landmark for Paris. Pei described it as, "the greatest challenge and greatest accomplishment of my career." At Fragrant Hill, a 300-room hotel in the Chinese capital, Pei has attempted to bring to his native China his often-quoted "third way of making buildings." Avoiding both a complete copying of traditional Chinese motifs as well as the modernism of the West, Pei has managed, at Fragrant Hill, to make one of his most eloquent statements.

Pei has designed nearly 50 projects in the United States and abroad. About half of these projects have won major awards. Pei has been awarded the highest honors from nations over the world. In 1990, Pei was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George Bush for his contributions to world peace and service to the US government.
1. who is the main person in story
2. what does he put in his designs
3. where was he born
4. what day
5. what did his dad do
6. what year did he come to the us
7. why
8. where
9. what year did he go to harvard
10. who chose him to design the library
11. what did others name it
12. what did he work on next
13. how many people went to it in the beginning

Numbered answers:
1. Ieoh Ming Pei
2. both eastern and western ideas
3. Guangzhou, China
4. April 26, 1917
5. banker.
6. 1935
7. to study architecture
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
9. 1942
10. Jacqueline Kennedy
11. one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States.
12. the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art
13. Over one million

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Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions. Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways. See also cultural movements.

The role of fine art has been to simultaneously express values of the current culture while also offering criticism, balance, or alternatives to any such values that are proving no longer useful. So as times change, art changes. If changes were abrupt they were deemed revolutions. The best artists have predated society's changes due not to any prescience, but because sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing.

Artists who succeeded enough to portray visions that future generations could live to see, often had to navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions. For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

No art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does. It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art. Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
1. Who put France in the forefront of European art?
2. Who else?
3. What are artistic revolutions?
4. What did paintings glorify in the 17th century?
5. What was classicism?
6. If changes to art were abrupt, what were they called?
7. Why have the best artists predated changes in society?
8. What kind of art owes the most to state power?
9. Who launched the age of absolute monarchy?
10. As times change, what else does too?
11. Who found its mirror in the idea of classicism?
12. What do artists who've succeeded often have to do?
Numbered answers:
1. Le Brun
2. Versailles
3. forms of art having gone through periodic abrupt changes
4. aristocracy
5. a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
6. artistic revolutions
7. sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing
8. French painting
9. Louix XIV
10. art
11. Versailles
12. navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions