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...SUGGESTING YOUR SISTER IS A CONTROL FREAK? LINDA: To Loretta, if you drape your coat over a chair, the order of the cosmos comes to a screeching halt...
...can’t drape a towel over a microwave in the middle of a room without us noticing,” Gingo said. “We look at anything out in the open, in closets and under beds and desks. But we don’t open dresser drawers or trunks or personal objects like that...
...quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives in a stone house within sight of the Great Hall of the People, where the weeklong congress convenes. Local Party leaders made the residents of her neighborhood drape red flags next to their doors. She shrugs, "Everybody does...
...country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the 3rd and 8th centuries, Afghanistan experienced a fusion of Greek, Persian and Indian cultures. The Bamiyan statues, for example, showed traces of Greek influence, as if the sculptors had stolen the robes off Apollo, the Greek sun god, to drape their enormous Buddhas. "There's a cultural void left by the destruction of the two Buddhas," says Afghan archaeologist Zafar Paiman. "I'm sure that, if the reclining Buddha is found, the people of Bamiyan are ready to protect...
...speech, Bush plans to drape his arms around the entire nation, Democrats included. In an upgrade of his "Communities of Character" initiative that was shelved because of the September attacks, Bush will propose a range of volunteer programs aimed at harnessing the reawakened desire of many Americans to serve their community and give to charity. His big idea: to expand the Corporation for National and Community Service, which Bill Clinton created with the youth-service program Americorps...