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Alabama is as red a state as the clay in its earth. After the years of rule by Southern Democrats, Republicans have now taken up residence in the Governor's mansion, as well as most statewide offices and congressional seats. In the 1990s Rove helped orchestrate a GOP near sweep of the Alabama Supreme Court...
...Alabama is as red a state as the clay in its earth. After the years of rule by Southern Democrats, Republicans have now taken up residence in the Governor's mansion, as well as most statewide offices and congressional seats. In the 1990s Rove helped orchestrate a G.O.P. near sweep of the Alabama Supreme Court...
...nothing else, these displays of eccentric optimism were a constant reminder that the land of Confucius and Mao’s Little Red book is in the throes of a transition from an intense, decades-long repression into a culture of footloose, sometimes stumbling consumerism. Clay A. Dumas ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Lowell House...
...stucco pillars that have also been brought in from the desert, this time from the 8th century Umayyad palace al-Hayr al-Gharbi, near Palmyra. Examples of what is suspected to be the world's first alphabet, Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English). The museum's guidebook is dense and difficult to use, but one presses...
...Thames meander in some murky backwaters in search of the spiritual. He summons water nymphs and ancient river gods like Egypt's Isis or the Hindu god Shiva, speculates on Neolithic burial rites and toys with the idea that "human consciousness is changed by the experience of living above clay, rather than above chalk." The book never quite recovers from these tributary explorations, but like the Thames, Ackroyd flows on. Once he's on the terra firma of London's recorded history - the troves of which he is a voracious plunderer - he is in full flood. The fancy word...