Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KUALA LUMPUR: He's already being hounded by the Russian Duma as a CIA spy. Now a group of southeast Asian countries want him prosecuted as a criminal. Has financier and philanthropist George Soros been speculating too much for his own good...
...Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad thinks he has. He says that Soros was upset by the decision of the Association of South East Asian Nations to admit Burma to their group ? Burma being one of the less democratic countries in the region ? and decided to drive their currency values down. ASEAN currencies have been going into tailspin against the dollar of late; Thailand, for one, had to be bailed out by the IMF to the tune of $16.7 billion. Still smarting, the Asian Tigers are screaming for Soros' head on a plate...
...means a rerun of a familiar subject. Most of the world's major sculptural traditions are abundantly represented in American museums--Egyptian, ancient Greek, Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Indian and Maya. Cambodian sculpture is the exception. Yet there is no doubt that in the small Southeast Asian kingdom between the 6th century and 16th century A.D., some of the greatest stone carving and bronze work in human history was made...
...matters, since the subject of this dense, exquisitely carved image is less a man than a conception of kingship: full of presence but withdrawn in meditation, centered, and plain to the point of humility. As pure as any Brancusi, it is one of the most touching icons in all Asian sculpture. As you scan it, the remoteness of the time and the society in which it was made ceases to matter...
...support for the central assertion that these incidents presented "compelling connections between foreign cash and official favors in Washington." The powerful but baseless accusation in your story is that I met with John Huang and others, and that Vice President Gore then met with a large group of Asian Americans because they made political donations. This is not accurate. There is simply no basis for the conclusions that you drew. JACK QUINN Washington...