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...general Harvard community, however, Islamic art’s relevance is not necessarily its religious import but its undeniable cultural significance...
...open in November in a shopping area beneath one of France's most treasured cultural meccas - the Louvre - but the news has hardly caused a stir in the City of Light. Bank employee Laurent Mortin told the New York Times he didn't have a problem with the American import: "It's more of a real lunch than eating a sandwich in the street, and it doesn't take as much time as sitting in a restaurant...
...hill." His friend, Aziz Ullah Kukchar, 37, adds that the whole place ought to be developed. "If there was a proper park, and restaurants, and billiards tables, 70% of the people here would not fly kites," he says. "We would charge admission." Kukchar, who says he was in the import-export business and has lived in Moscow, thinks that it would be "good for the park to look like Gorky Park...
...particular, Michigan is moving to import out-of-state prisoners and even alleged terrorists who are detained by the Federal Government at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The effort could make Michigan an unlikely player in the increasingly lucrative business of transporting prisoners across borders. Already, several states grappling with overcrowded prisons - including California, Pennsylvania and Vermont - spend millions each year sending inmates to private and public prisons in Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee and elsewhere. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Remains of Detroit...
...Robots”—will be able to point to the myriad recycle tropes that propped that record up. “Mystics” attempts to craft simpler, theoretically catchier—and typically somewhat monotonous—pop songs with the same sort of thematic import that made the elegant, orchestral, deeply emotive “Yoshimi” standout “Do You Realize??” such a runaway hit. Instead, it oversimplified the formula, leaving even the catchiest of those songs relatively limp...