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...museum's mingqi extend through several short-lived kingdoms up to the Tang dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.). Some of these pieces are not much better than those found today in the backrooms of dealers on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road. Still, there are some truly remarkable treasures on show, like the "Barbarian with Horn," a large sancai (three-color) glazed terra-cotta sculpture of an elaborately dressed man with bulging eyes, a handlebar moustache and full beard. Obviously he is not Han Chinese, and that's what makes figures from the vibrant Tang dynasty so interesting. During this...
...aisle has seemed capable of demonstrating fiscal prudence and compassion simultaneously, while the President, hobbled by a $331 billion budget deficit, an unpopular and expensive war in Iraq, and an official admission that he mishandled the initial crisis, could neither afford his Gulf Coast largesse--nor afford not to extend...
...Dallas Salisbury, CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "They're using more and more triggers, bribes, gimmicks and penalties to promote wellness offerings." Two-thirds provide such benefits. Some hand out pedometers to encourage workers to walk more. Others help with yoga instruction, massage and meditation. And many extend insurance discounts for employees who take smoking-cessation classes...
...faithfully comply with them in every detail? Jon Moseley, Executive Director Legal Affairs Council Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. This may be a good time to do away with lifetime appointments for judges, including those at the federal level. Judges should be required to retire at age 70. We could extend that rule to all those employed by the Federal Government - including members of Congress and the President. We have too many old folks sending young folks to war. Stanley A. Green Stockton, California, U.S. Everybody's Encyclopedia Your story on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia [July 18] was encouraging to those...
Some reasons for the big veteran drive extend beyond mere patriotism. George Lakoff, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been advising Democrats, suggests that voters often see their party in the style of a "nurturing parent" but, in a post--Sept. 11 world, prefer the "strict father" governance embraced by Republicans. In less Freudian terms, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says "the military and these other institutions are greatly respected." Hence the Democrats' netting a former CIA officer in Illinois and a former FBI agent in Minnesota, whistle-blower Coleen...