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To a remarkable degree, the cave paintings executed over 20 millenniums until about 11,000 years ago are concentrated in southern France and northeastern Spain. Some cultural impulse drove the early Homo sapiens of that region not only to venture deep into caves but also to paint and engrave them...
Summers’ presidency has consisted of a long series of misguided and ill-conceived decisions and it is time to quietly fill in the grave he has dug for himself and find a president to succeed Dr. Bok who will inspire by example and illumination.
After the near-universal critical acclaim accorded to her debut film “Whale Rider” in 2003, director Niki Caro follows up on her breakout success with “North Country.” She looks slightly embarrassed when I address her as ?...
Pyongyang chronicles the two months that Guy Delisle, a French-Canadian animator, spent in North Korea in 2001, prior to September 11, supervising work on a French TV cartoon outsourced to inexpensive North Korean animators. His expectations are indicated by two of the items in his baggage: a copy of...
That is just one of the stories colorfully told and illustrated in The Origins of Value (Oxford), edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. The two economic historians turn what could have been a bone-dry survey of arcane financial instruments into a lively history of finance. Even...