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...dissipated. Dr. Susan Whitfield, curator of the British Library's new exhibition, "The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith," is aware of the beguiling quality of her subject and seeks to ground it. "I want people to leave with a knowledge that the Silk Road is not a faraway, exotic place," she says, "but full of everyday lives and everyday people which have relevance to us today...
Only India's movie moguls might have imagined the saga of a beautiful Italian girl who follows her prince to a faraway land, finding love, tragedy and heartbreak before finally triumphing as a leader of her adopted people. Last week the story came true. TV pundits who for months had predicted Sonia Gandhi's disastrous election defeat found themselves explaining a sensational victory instead. Outgoing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee grudgingly praised the "strong and diverse" democracy that rejected him. But most dazed of all, it seemed, was Sonia...
...filling formerly half-empty pews, but I am concerned about one of his five "guiding purposes"--that a person must "act as God's missionary in the world." That purpose absolves people of meeting the needs of their families and church congregations. Instead, they focus on saving the faraway poor and oppressed. Ministering to strangers is often easier and more exciting than helping those we know personally, but many people, especially the elderly, are denied the nurturing love they desperately need because charity no longer begins in the home or local church. BETTE DEWING New York City...
...water-purification plants, the Japanese soldiers are emblems of a country whose leader is determined to normalize its military after more than a half-century in purgatory. Still, with a key parliamentary election coming up in July, Koizumi is in danger of gambling all his political capital on a faraway quagmire. As he knows, the last Spanish government's stance in favor of the war was a major reason why it lost the recent general election...
...Norfolk Southern and CSX in the East. "People from all over the world, from Europe to China, come to look at our system," boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports to inland rail yards, where cranes can quickly off-load them for trucks to deliver to retail warehouses. BNSF, which handles one-fourth of the nation's rail freight, posted double-digit increases in its intermodal business in 2003, with revenues up nearly 11% and total cars...