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...economic reality made the results of the Royal Plowing Ceremony even more bitter for deeply superstitious farmers. A member of parliament watching the recalcitrant cows said he thought it was the most pathetic display of bovine appetite in more than a decade. (Making the sting more painful: royal cows at a similar ceremony in neighboring Thailand a few days later ate grass, corn and rice with gusto...
...from Buddhist sculpture to dinosaurs, it emphasizes objects over pictures, so straight walls are less of a priority. In any case, there are plenty of those in the older part of the ROM. And Libeskind insists that the dynamic lines of the galleries "energize" the works they hold. "The display of art is also not set for eternity," he says. "It has changed over time. Look how things were exhibited in the 19th century. Curators are not people who are asleep. They also want to create a new experience for the viewer...
...leader are contradictory. Omar has heard the tales of the corruption that dogged Arafat and his entourage, of the missing millions in aid money. But he remains loyal to Arafat and insists, along with his friends, that I tour a museum in the camp whose showpiece is a photo display of Arafat in his many guises, from bug-eyed terrorist to statesman. Omar rushes me past a photo of Arafat shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; he thinks Arafat gave away too much to the Israelis, as do many Palestinians still holding keys to their families' old houses...
...necessarily - they simply believed that the majority in their communities wanted this display, which was true. But when you get into issues around the Bill of Rights, there are countervailing values. When those are pressed, some members of the majority take personal offense...
...Because the Supreme Court outcomes were different. One involved a recently-installed display in a Kentucky courthouse, and the other was about a monument that had been outside the state capital in Texas for 40 years. The Court struck down the courthouse display and upheld the Texas monument. Both decisions were five-to-four, and Justice Stephen Breyer, who was my administrative law professor at Harvard, was the swing vote. It baffled me, but I finally boiled it down to a philosophy of 'if it's old and outside, it's okay, and if it's new and inside...