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...Byzantine Empire's air of inscrutability was used not to keep people out but to draw them in - crucial for a realm whose authority required awe and loyalty from its disparate subjects. The altars of Byzantine churches, for example, were hidden by huge screens decorated with icons of saints and martyrs that, while huge and impressive, are also as inexpressive as a child's doll. Without realistic human features or vivid detail through which to tell their stories, these icons demand that viewers use imagination to grasp the lives of the dead. The icons' elusiveness, in other words, allows...
...part of working through the effects of the credit crunch. The world is undergoing a great deleveraging and all that unwinding has ramifications. At the same time, the onslaught of market moving news - economic data, corporate earnings, governmental action - keeps coming. There is a massive uncertainty in the air, and in a market it is perfectly logical - perhaps even necessary - for uncertainty to be reflected in asset prices. Uncertainty, as reflected in volatility, is legitimate information, too. In a panel discussion about volatility's implications, Morgan Stanley executive director Robert Shapiro took a step back and asked: "Why is volatility...
Here in Cambridge especially, Bolshevism is in the air. The Revolutionary Communist Party of America—seen regularly handing out leaflets to bemused capitalists in Harvard Square—smells blood in the water. On its website, the group offers a lengthy explanation of how the current financial crisis demonstrates the failure of capitalism and the need for an imminent uprising. Over at Revolution Books, Cambridge’s Marxist haven, the atmosphere would surely be electric, yet it is difficult to tell, because like any good Communist establishment, the store is only open 14 hours a week...
...only conceived so that his mother could prove to her partner that she was not sterile. According to Fritzl's account, she neglected him and subjected him to traumatic experiences like abandonment. During World War II bombing raids, for example, Fritzl's mother would retreat to an air-raid shelter for safety, leaving Fritzl alone in the family home...
...elaborate turbans and stiff uniforms, trumpets the national anthem. Beside them, serried schoolboys chant patriotic songs. Despite the somewhat affected talk of peace, Kashmir retains its visceral importance on both sides of the divide. When the prime minister's retinue releases half a dozen white pigeons into the air - doves are as rare as peace has been in these parts - a mild breeze prompts them all to fly back to the Pakistani side. "See, none of them wanted to go over to the other side," one observer notes with evident satisfaction. Moments later, the schoolboys begin to belt out slogans...