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Tsim installs herself in a friend’s room in Mather and goes to work. Twelve hours, three cups of coffee, and dozens of midnight snacks later, the dress is complete and ready to be unveiled. Tsim presents a two-toned dress, completed by a shimmering, golden crepe sash draped in a style reminiscent of the intricate saris of Bollywood actresses...
There may be negative consequences, however, to this new round of intervention. As part of finalizing the details of the government's second stimulus package, Aso is also calling for changes to accounting rules, including a relaxation of capital adequacy requirements for banks and a suspension of the golden accounting rule of mark-to-market. Credit Suisse's Ina warns that fiddling with mark-to-market accounting (in which a bank's assets are assessed at market value) could have an affect on banks' financial earnings by "obscuring the realities." He warns that changing the current standard might "provide more...
When Slavic ambassadors visited Constantinople (formerly Byzantium) in the 10th century, they were so awed by the city that they later wrote that they "knew not whether we were in Heaven or Earth." During their stay, these 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...
...poems about Byzantium, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats seemed drawn to the city's stylized art because it provided a release from the restraints of his own frailties. Yeats longed to exchange the "fury and mire of human veins" for the "changeless metal" of the city's mechanical golden birds, whose beauty he felt to be permanent. There is historical evidence that the Byzantines, too, revered artifice while denigrating the human flesh: self-castration was a popular means of purification, and mutilation a prevalent form of punishment - one Emperor even wore a gold nose as a result...
...their families, they now tend waving fields of blossoms that will one day become the opium manufactured in the local factory and shipped to greedy merchants in Britain and China.Also introduced in this first novel, although not developed enough to make it satisfying in its own right, is a golden thread of mysticism that melds art and spirituality. While bathing in the Ganga, Deeti receives a vision of a double-masted ship with a bird at the prow—the Ibis. Without knowing who or what it carries, or even having seen such a ship before, the sense...