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...Japanese high- speed passenger train that can travel more than 250 m.p.h. Moored in the harbor are dozens of boats and ships, including a Malaysian canoe and a Portuguese fishing boat. The Chinese pavilion features stones from the Great Wall and a 2,000-year-old bronze chariot...
...dignified splendor. Granddaughter of King Rama IV, the Thai monarch romanticized in The King and I, she was the wife of Thailand's last absolute ruler, before a coup installed a constitutional monarchy in 1932. The Queen's remains were borne on the traditional 40-ton, gilded teakwood chariot to an ornate cremation pavilion. Though some were critical of the estimated $1.2 million expense, funerals are occasions of the deepest importance to Thais. Explained Thaveesak Senanarong, who organized the spectacle: "Even one's enemies come. It is their last chance to apologize...
...wonder why I do it," Virginia Woolf mused on Oct. 7, 1919. "Partly, I think, from my old sense of the race of time 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near'--Does it stay it?" "It" was diary writing, and the question was rhetorical. Of course the entries could stop time, by providing a mirror of the self and a method of recapturing the past. That is a truth every diarist apprehends, first instinctively and then with the evidence of the page. In this critical anthology, Thomas Mallon, a professor of English at Vassar, offers hundreds of such proofs, from diaries...
Even after four years in politics, Rajiv remains uncomfortable before large, unruly crowds. He disdains the sycophancy of public life in India. When told that he was to ride in a gilded chariot to a party conference in Calcutta last December, he refused and went by automobile instead...
Cheering supporters lined the streets of Hyderabad, the state capital, as the popular star greeted his fans from the roof of a van that he has dubbed his "Chariot of Divine Enlightenment." Later he thanked Mrs. Gandhi "for seeing the light." Many of his admirers would like to see him run for Prime Minister against Mrs. Gandhi. After starring in more than 300 feature films during his 31-year career, he would have one important attribute: instant nationwide recognition...