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...York Rocker (166 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010) The Rocker was giving the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie major coverage well before the mainstream press caught on and covers the English, West Coast and Midwestern scenes as well. Lots of typically arty, New-York-is-the-center-of-the-universe attitudes, but it's well worth...
...Chinese, Columbus has never been much of a hero. Three years ago, a Chinese historical journal denounced him as a "colonial pirate" for setting sail to pillage Asia. Now a Chinese scholar is claiming that Columbus may have been beaten to the New World by a 5th century Buddhist monk named Huishen...
Fang is far more positive. By the 3rd century A.D., he notes, Chinese merchant seamen had reached the Indian Ocean and could reckon their sailing speeds and distances. "So it would have been quite possible for Chinese ships to cross the Pacific in the 5th century...
Herbert Hunt hocked his 8,748-acre ranch, which stretches through three counties in South Texas, and a collection of Roman and Greek statues and busts, including a 5th century B.C. dancing satyr. Brother Lamar Hunt pledged money due him from his holdings in the Dallas Tornado soccer team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Lamar also added his art collection. A prized possession: Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which he bought last October for $2.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting...
...members of the women's groups who protested said they are disappointed and frustrated by the Board's decisions. "I am amazed that they could ignore us so completely," Williams said. "We will go to the meeting on the 5th with a statement that this decision is unacceptable," she added...