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Among the 105 objects on display is a graceful three-legged wine cup from the Shang dynasty. Dating from about 1750 B.C., it is the earliest decorated bronze yet found, but its elegant shape and fine detail suggest that a sophisticated craftsmanship must have already existed for several centuries. During the Shang period, which lasted until 1030 B.C., bronze was so precious that it was strictly the prerogative of royalty, and even then used largely for sacramental rites honoring gods and ancestors. In fact, the vessels known as dings, which are characteristic of the time, were symbols of the divine...
Without doubt, valid objections can be raised to the current system of almost weekly primaries, the unwarranted emphasis on the earliest states and the distorting manipulation, by both candidates and the press, of the psychology of expected results. It may also be true, as New York Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel observed, that "we pick people for their ability to raise funds, come across on TV, and as campaigners, rather than for their ability to recognize or solve our problems...
Foreign interpreters arrived like immigrant waves. One of the earliest, and still the genius of the genre, was Tocqueville. He saw beyond livestock and table manners; he viewed democracy with an eerily clairvoyant eye. Half a century later came Lord Bryce, whose American Commonwealth (1888) still runs a respectable second. But the visitors have rarely been that wise or objective. The interpretation of America has always been a species of self-discovery-and self-indulgence. The English novelist E.M. Forster said that America is like life because "you can usually find in it what you look...
...years at State were within the reach of the FOIA. In December 1976, shortly before he left office, Kissinger donated these documents to the Library of Congress (which is not covered by the FOIA) under a complex deed that limits access to them until the year 2001 at the earliest. Since Kissinger's donation came before the FOIA requests were made by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other groups, the Supreme Court concluded that State could not be said to be wrongfully "withholding" the documents. The proper remedy, said the majority, is the Federal Records...
...original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where he is depicted as a vain, posturing maneuverer who manipulates the court's rules to help...