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...colophon mark Spring's Peaceful Message, a charming double portrait, painted by Castiglione around 1736, of Qianlong and his father. The older man is handing his son a sprig of flowering apricot, symbolizing a peaceful transition of power and wishes for a fruitful reign. Yongzheng did not want his chosen heir to suffer the questions of legitimacy that he did. The Royal Academy exhibition is much more than Qing propaganda, exquisite as it is. There is a large room devoted to literati paintings, some produced by Ming loyalists protesting foreign rule in subtle works that speak of isolation, removal...
...Marilynne Robinson 9. "New and Selected Poems" Volume 2 Mary Oliver 10. "Myth of You and Me" Leah Steward Hardcover Nonfiction 1. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin 2. "Schooling America" Patricia Graham 3. "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Benjamin Friedman 4. "Year of Magical Thinking" Joan Didion 5. "Chosen" Jerome Karabel 6. "The Truth with Jokes" Al Franken 7. "Guynd: a Scottish Journal" Belinda Rathbone 8. "Two Lives" Vikram Seth 9. "Are Men Necessary?" Maureen Dowd 10. "Shame of the Nation" Jonathan Kozol
...Everybody reading this is familiar with the outlines of the Goblet plot - Hogwarts? hosting of a Tri-Wizard Tournament, in which Harry is mysteriously chosen as a fourth contestant - so we?ll cut quickly through the maze and say that this is the first Potter film to improve on the book...
...Deciding upon [The Hill School], a lot of it had to do with the fact that I was pretty young for my grade,” says Harris, who would have been an 18-year-old freshman last year had he chosen to enter college right after graduating from Harvard-Westlake. “I gained like ten pounds there. I definitely got a lot stronger, got more comfortable...
...some ways, Harvard might hope for a repeat of that 2000-01 campaign. Sure, the Crimson jumped out to a 5-2 league start only to endure a five-game losing streak en route to a 7-7 finish, but Princeton, the team chosen second that season, won its final five games of the year to seize the Ivy title with an 11-3 mark...