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...Department faculty say that Garber has already started to clamp down on the administrative confusion that Phelan and Killip presided over. The Carpenter Center has already completed its list of guest lecturers for next year, the earliest it has done so in recent memory. And course information, though still late, now appears to be on track...
...less eloquent artist. His figures don't gesture for attention; narrative relations between them are never dramatic. They can be curiously self-absorbed and if not passive, then at least quiet to the point of inwardness. They had that character right from the start of his career. Thus the earliest of the 15 Vermeers in this show--because of the massive borrowing power of the Met, it contains nearly half his known output--is his one and only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening...
...emerging genetic picture tells a different story, one that identifies the earliest Europeans as scraggly, persistent foragers who had hunkered down during the glacial age. "This research changes the whole debate about Europe, shifts it back in time from the Neolithic era of farming to the Paleolithic era of hunter-gatherers," says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of mitochondrial DNA analysis. "There's now a much clearer sense that the genes we carry lived through the Ice Age, that our ancestors were hunting bison and reindeer with essentially the same genetic...
Internationally, of course, this was old hat. Routinized agricultural taxation in China was well established by the Zhou dynasty (c. 1027-221 B.C.E.); the earliest Roman taxes, the portoria, were customs duties on imports and exports. The Athenians had a monthly poll tax, the metoikion, on foreigners (people whose parents were not both Athenian) of one drachma for men and half a drachma for women, while their contemporary Persians levied a tax called jizya on all non-Muslims living in Muslim-ruled areas. In 11th-century Britain, rising property taxes propelled Lady Godiva to ride the streets nude, inspiring popular...
Jerusalem was central to the spiritual identity of Muslims from the very beginning of their faith. When the Prophet Muhammad first began to preach in Mecca in about 612, according to the earliest biographies, which are our primary source of information about him, he had his converts prostrate themselves in prayer in the direction of Jerusalem. They were symbolically reaching out toward the Jewish and Christian God, whom they were committed to worshipping, and turning their back on the paganism of Arabia. Muhammad never believed that he was founding a new religion that canceled out the previous faiths...