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...Efforts to counter the crisis focused on Eastern Europe as well. The International Monetary Fund announced that it has struck a tentative accord to lend $16.5 billion to cash-strapped Ukraine, and said a major impediment to providing emergency funding to Hungary had also been removed. In Asia, meanwhile, the central banks of Australia and Hong Kong safeguarded the liquidity of markets with new injections of funds, while South Korea cut its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point in the hopes of countering slowing economic growth...
...visitors would have seen mechanical golden songbirds on the boughs of jeweled trees and a hydraulic throne that lifted the Emperor 30 ft. above his subjects. Today, the relics of the Byzantine Empire - which for more than 1,000 years stretched from its capital (now called Istanbul) into the eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East and beyond - continue to dazzle. Running through March 2009, a major exhibit at London's Royal Academy of Arts showcases some of the era's finest works. Yet it also attempts to peel back the artifice that has long made the Byzantine Empire so obscure...
...Byzantium 330-1453," a display of some 300 artifacts spanning the history of the empire, includes none of the ornate machinery described by ancient writers, or the glorious mosaics that still glitter from the domed ceilings of Eastern Europe's Orthodox churches. On display, instead, are fragments and everyday objects: Psalters, Bibles, chalices, icons, crucifixes, spoons, cups, coins and jewelry. It requires effort to appreciate the significance of such items. But with a bit of imagination, we can use them to help us understand the lives of our enigmatic predecessors...
...exoticism of foreign languages rather than the exoticism possible through rhetorical artistry. There are so many imported words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses...
...star player secure victories in both of these events. With victories in the 96-player singles draw and the 24-pair doubles draw, the senior did just this. Clayton played with sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans in the doubles draw. Over the course of the six day event, the eastern universities’ top contenders competed at Yale University’s Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in an attempt to qualify for the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships scheduled to be held Nov. 6-9. As its title suggests, this championship is the most prestigious collegiate tournament held each fall. With...