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...effect, renewing a relationship that had flourished for a millennium. Between the 5th and 8th centuries, Japan imported from China its ideographic writing, its Buddhist religion, its form of government organization and codes of law. Chinese civilization deeply influenced Japanese painting, music and architecture. Still, both nations remained distinct and sometimes antagonistic. Teng's visit was a symbol of conciliation...
Despite these grievances against their giant neighbors to the north and south, Andorrans are unlikely to seek complete independence as they enter their 8th century as subjects of the co-Princes. Said one Andorran shopkeeper last week: "It's as it says in our national anthem: 'Faithful and free I wish to live, with my Princes as my protectors...
...names and faces involved in the Mass primary today, the ones you're sure to recognize both belong to Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Congressional representative of the 8th Disctict (including his home turf, Cambridge) and Speaker of the House. Tip has been pretty busy this year in Washington, what with restoring Uncle Joe Cannon's post to its former grandeur and fending off charges of involvement in Koreagate. You've seen his, uh, craggy Irish face splashed all over newspapers and magazines...
...gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...
...monastery's sick cattle. (The cows recovered after drinking the water; the book still carries the stains.) The Metropolitan's exhibition contains not only the Book of Durrow, but also two of the four volumes-Mark and John-that make up the Gospel Book of Kells. This 8th century work, originally housed in the monastery of Kells in County Meath and later moved to Dublin for safekeeping during Cromwell's rape of Ireland, is the most famous illuminated manuscript in the West...