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...stage, adorned with relatively few decorations and objects, was ultimately quite successful in evoking richly ornate Tibetan monasteries. A white table upstage bore the image of the Dalai Lama and a three-dimensional mandala and torma, ritual offerings usually made of yak butter or ground barley. One graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, speculated that the table served as a throne, with the Dalai Lama’s image acting as a manifestation of His presence...
...know who I am by now..." Anna Nicole Smith wrote in the "All About Me" section on her purply-pink website. After that teasing, pouty pause she added a couple of cursory sentences and then wrapped it up: "There's so much more, but bios are a bore and I don't feel like writing any more. What else do you need to know...
...dumbfounded by this, but I’m happy that the stars of Crimson sports almost always stick it out through four years here, even when Cambridge is far from where their athletic brilliance could have taken them. A recent article in the New York Times sports section bore the headline “College Offers Attractive Pit Stop on Way to the N.B.A.” It detailed the frenzy surrounding former, present, and future N.B.A. locks as they came with a basketball to play college (or is it came to college to play basketball?). While these high-profile...
...particular, the activists added, Ashkenazi bore responsibility for the torture of thousands of Lebanese civilians at the Khiam prison, the coercion of Lebanese civilians to collaborate with the occupation, and the expulsion of Lebanese civilians from the occupied territory...
...southeast gale and an undersea earthquake sent the sea flooding through Venice. Four feet of water overflowed the Piazza San Marco. Yet according to Peter Lauritzen in Venice Preserved (Adler & Adler; 176 pages; $29.95), the deluge bore good fortune. It helped to jolt the world into rescuing Venice from nearly two centuries of decay and depredation. Photographers Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus record the resurrection of the city. Lauritzen combines a sure hand for history with a light satirical touch for the bureaucracy of restoration...