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Today, for instance, not a single English 13th century wooden crucifix figure survives in England; to find a probable example, the organizers of this show had to borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been...
...Ling Ling, Yong Yong and the other actors in what might be called China's Traveling Panda Act -- two more will be lent to the Netherlands' Beekse Bergen park this month -- are meant to do more than entertain. Pandas also carry a message: they are an endangered species with a bleak future. Only a few, 700 or so, still roam the mountains of central China, and there are not enough in zoos to ensure their survival...
Elsewhere in Europe last week, Israeli diplomacy had a smoother ride. Setting another precedent, President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit West Germany. At the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which he helped liberate in 1945 as an officer in the British army, Herzog said, "I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are the dead. The living have no right to forget." Despite the agonizing memories, Herzog hailed West Germany as "one of our closest friends." That was more than mere rhetoric. Today the Federal...
...parts of Ozone Park, Gotti is a folk hero. He lives in Howard Beach, a few miles away, in an unpretentious, tree-shaded house. On a corner of 101st Avenue, a few blocks down from the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, Connie, a school crossing guard, has been escorting children across the same street for ten years. "People here look up to him," she says of Gotti. "As soon as you mention his name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking...
...balancing act between the claims of justice and civilized society's proclivity for compassion. You don't lock someone up because you can." But the woman who once walked to school along 101st Avenue does not have much compassion for the men who hung around the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club; she wants to lock up John Gotti not because she can, but because he deserves...