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...fact that Kadima must choose between two leaders who would take the party in substantially different directions is a product of the party's origins: Like Jewish mythology's Golem, a living creature of clay who carries out its master's bidding, the party was molded as a personal political vehicle by Ariel Sharon. But when, in January 2006, Sharon lapsed into a coma from which he has not recovered, the party lost its identity. Sharon's deputy and successor, Olmert, drove the party into the ground with scandals and a disastrous military campaign in Lebanon in 2006. It remains...
...close to the museums. At 47, he still has the impishness of someone who unexpectedly made it. When he spots a sign pointing upstairs to paintings, the L.A.-ness of it cracks him up. "Paintings! That's great. They have to be very specific. Like 'Things Made of Clay.' It's a bit like This Side of the Truth, where there's a sign that says CHEAP MOTEL FOR SEX WITH A NEAR STRANGER." On the Ghost Town set, he'd do 15 takes of a scene, trying out different runs; here he flits among the artworks, making great jokes...
...epic is part of the Clay Sanskrit Library, a new series that aims to do for Sanskrit literature what the Loeb Classical Library - publisher of those pocket-sized, green and red volumes found in many a university reading room - has done for Greek and Latin texts over the past century. As such, it's geared more toward lofty specialists and Indiana Joneses than curious general readers. The poem is cluttered with arcane history, dry scriptural debate and explanations of Buddhist doctrine - the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Triple Refuge - that can be meticulous to the point...
...Begg wrote poems in Guantanamo, several of which were included in the collection Poems from Guantanamo, published last fall. But for Guantanamo detainees, for whom "getting a pen required an Act of Congress," he says, paint and clay were out of the question. "When I see what these [British detainees] were allowed, I think, 'Fantastic, I'd love to be in a prison where people could make these things," says Begg, who recalls fellow inmates fashioning tiny sculptures of spiders and scorpions out of toilet paper doused in cold tea. All were taken and thown away, says Begg, as potential...
...There was a time when clay-court [specialists] wouldn't even make the trip [to England]," Bjorkman said after losing to Nadal at the Artois Championships, a warm-up event for Wimbledon. "Now they hardly even need to adjust their game...