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...Building Cambodia: 'New Khmer Architecture' 1953-1970 Helen Grant Ross and Darryl Leon Collins Everyone has heard of Angkor Wat, but very few are aware of that other great flowering of Khmer architectural genius-namely, the New Khmer Architecture that emerged in Phnom Penh amid the heady national pride that followed Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Asian Books of 2006 | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

...after song seemed to come cascading out of nowhere to take a place forever in the consciousness of those lucky to have been part of what Dylan has given us. But these ones come from equally interesting places, from all the musical, literary and other traditions to which the genius of Dylan has cosied up over the decades, from Civil War America, from the Delta and Atlanta blues of the 1930’s, from poems and melody “from many moons ago,” to use his words. The last line of its last song...

Author: By The crimson arts staff , CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrity Lists | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...isolationist country, that many fans here would rather watch an international game with the top players in the world than settle for a lessened domestic product. As one Japanese baseball blog put it: "Finally, all the dream matches will come true in 2007. Matsuzaka vs. Godzilla Matsui, Matsuzaka vs. Genius Ichiro, Matsuzaka vs. Igawa! I wish the MLB 2007 season would start soon." He's not the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Japan Become America's Farm Team? (In Baseball, That Is) | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...they’ve even made it child-friendly by replacing the adult version’s homicidal, gun-toting bear with a cuddly, cupid-like archer of a panda. Combining small children’s great love of grammar with their fondness for punctuation-based punch lines? Genius...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER: Kid's Corner | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Julius, their extravagantly gay friend, is a book and film reviewer whose former potential has waned through his years of bohemian dissipation. His might be said to emulate the dictum of his personal idol, Oscar Wilde: “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” The problem is, in his excessive zeal for personality as an aesthetic, he has neglected to perform any “actual sustained endeavor...

Author: By David L. Golding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frivolous Lives, Interrupted | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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