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...with no subject or address, just the word “bastard.”Another one said “I hope you die soon,” on the first day and “are you still alive?” on the next.A scholar of ancient Hindu texts who has spent six years in Kathmandu, Nepal, Witzel was one of three scholars asked by the Board to examine the edits, as part of the review. In January, he flew to Sacramento for a six-hour closed discussion on the proposed changes.Last Wednesday, the Board approved...
...brewing conflict with Fatah will test Haniya?who, as it happens, drives an ancient Toyota. His elevation has been courtesy of Israel's success in killing or arresting earlier Hamas leaders. Friends and Hamas colleagues say Haniya is soft-spoken and a good listener. He is described as a man with few enemies, which makes him a rarity in the politics of the Middle East. Haniya and Abbas are said to like each other. But as Zai Abu Amar, a legislator with ties to Hamas, says: "This is Haniya's first job in politics?and it's as Prime Minister...
...Oscar night last week, though, the looking glass was not a crystal ball but a rearview mirror. Hollywood's gentry celebrated the past--the misty history of cinema, evoked with montages of ancient genres and deceased artistes. From the films honored, you would hardly have noticed that under the academy members' smartly shod feet, a seismic shift was taking place...
...another way, why shouldn't the ancient Spanish city of Seville sprout a few 90-ft. mushrooms? For 150 years, Seville's Plaza de la Encarnacin was a market in the heart of the old quarter. In 1973, in an act of municipal hooliganism that was typical for its time, the market stalls were torn down by the city and replaced by a parking lot. A few years ago, plans were moving ahead to replace the lot with an underground garage when workers excavating the site discovered a cluster of Roman ruins. This time a wiser city government made...
...historical community might not help.”According to Luann Abrahams, the Assistant Director for Administration at HUAM, one of the museum’s many goals has been to preserve its presence in the Yard, while conducting the renovations. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which houses ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, will not be renovated and will instead feature a “best-of” collection culled from the archives of the three museums. “We’ve got to make [the art] accessible to everyone [in the interim],” says...