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...artifacts on display as well: items from the western province of Darfur, where the Khartoum government and allied ethnic militias are blamed for killing 50,000 people and uprooting more than 1 million in the past 19 months. The Darfur objects - including a storage basket, toys and an ostrich-feather fan - testify to pastoral ways of life. These people make little representational art, yet it's hard not to hear an elegiac note in their clay figurines of cows and camels. They're made by Darfur children, says museum spokes-woman Hannah Boulton, "who dream of the large herds they...
BUSH [It's] not trashy, but I'm having so much fun reading Lady Catherine Manning's mysteries--our new ambassador from Britain's wife, who writes by the pseudonym Elizabeth Ironside. And there is a mystery writer named Jacqueline Winspear, whose book is called Birds of a Feather. It's set right after World War I. I love to read mysteries for relaxation...
...person tormented by questions of image and identity can find encouragement in the message of Genesis 1: 27: "So God created people in his own image." That biblical quotation is projected on the screen, which also features an icon of a smiling cartoon Catwoman sporting purple tights, a feather boa and a whip...
...truth of the matter is, as hard as they try to keep in character (and they try pretty hard), the Billionaires are only ironically for Bush. Far from being the obscenely wealthy’s first explicit lobbying group, they are a particularly meta feather in the left wing, seeking to present the excesses of the Bush administration with jokey, street-theatre tactics powered by firm liberalism. Adopting outsize Bush-loving personas, the Billionaires spout often-scripted lines about what they say—well, heavily imply—is a president who has catered dangerously to the top wealth...
...starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...