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...Amsterdam exhibition presents 250 objects from four archaeological sites - Tepe Fullol, Ai Khanum, Tillya-tepe, and Begram - dating back as far as 4,000 years ago. It includes gold and silver vases from the Bactrian Bronze Age; a Greek limestone pillar and sundials from the 2nd century BC; Indian-related ivory figures and furniture from the 1st century AD; and a spectacular gold collection from Tillya-Tepe that includes bracelets, hearts, a crown, and even a pair of golden shoe soles meant to convey an aristocrat's disinclination for walking...
...Percent” due to his cut on all government contracts. In 2004, Swiss magistrates found both Bhutto and Zardari guilty of money laundering. Other evidence has amassed in France and Poland indicating extensive investments and shady deals. In one striking case, Pakistani investigators reportedly found that a gold dealer deposited $10 million dollars in one of Zardari’s accounts for exclusive trading rights in Pakistan. The total extent of the corruption may still lie in shadow. Perhaps Bhutto truly would have revived Pakistan’s democracy, which has been on life support under President Pervez Musharraf...
Coming in nine points behind Mike Huckabee and over $40 million dollars poorer, Mitt Romney was introduced Thursday night in Iowa by Olympic gold medalist Dan Jansen. Romney's first words to the crowd exemplified the former Massachusetts governor's relentlessly sunny disposition: "Well, we won the silver...
...commentators tend to see political Islam as an antiliberal and irrational form of "Islamo-fascism." Yet much of the Islamists' success in Pakistan and elsewhere comes from their ability to portray themselves as champions of social justice, fighting Westernized lites--like Benazir Bhutto. Her reputation for corruption was gold dust to these Islamic revolutionaries, just as the excesses of the Shah were to his opponents in Iran 30 years earlier. During Bhutto's government, Pakistan was declared one of the most corrupt nations in the world, and she and her husband Asif Ali Zardari were charged with jointly laundering...
...debate here because Harvard is the gold standard,” he said...