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...patterns are showing up in carpet showrooms from Sydney to San Francisco. Unfortunately, clever imitations are turning up, too. So how does a novice buyer spot the fakes? We asked two experts - third-generation carpet trader Abdul Tawab and his father, Hajji Sufi Abdul Wahid - for advice. The pair hail from Herat, the center of Afghanistan's carpet business, but moved to the Pakistani capital Islamabad 20 years ago, after fleeing the Afghan-Soviet war. There, Wahid set up the family shop, Herat Carpets, and today father and son stock some of the finest Afghan rugs available. Authentic antique Afghan...
Although many students hail from the areas of Asia hit hardest, only one undergraduate was studying in the affected countries during the fall semester, according to Jane Edwards, the director of the Office of International Programs (OIP). The student was in India on a program that ended in mid-December...
...longer Return of the King (which is buttressed by six-plus hours of nifty documentary footage), you will see a hail of flying skulls assaulting Aragorn and his colleagues when they meet the Army of the Dead. The Mouth of Sauron, a creature with really scary teeth, rides out to tell Aragorn that Frodo has been killed. Jackson (who can be glimpsed playing a pirate) also solves the riddle of the "wizard kebab"--a photo, snapped on the set, of a white-robed man impaled on a huge spike. It's Saruman, fallen to his death...
Luke's version of the Annunciation is very different. It is the one we are more familiar with, in which the angel Gabriel greets Mary with the lines Catholics have often recited as "Hail, Mary, full of grace." It continues with a much more complete description of what came to be known as the virginal conception, and goes on through Mary's acceptance: "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word...
...international student. I don’t hail from Romania or Zimbabwe, or even from California. I’m from Manhattan, Noo Yawk, a mere four-hour, $15 bus ride (and it used to be less before those Chinatown buses outrageously raised their prices) away...