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Rather than a sustained and incisive presentation of religious influences on Chinese painting, what unfolds is a series of scrolls incredibly rich in calligraphic detail and historical import. All are completely unrolled and elegantly presented in cases that run along the entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with...
...York City policy analyst whose group meets once a month. "I love it," she says. "I believe you have to set up situations where you can think about larger principles." A high-powered book club in Washington, started by Kenneth Brody, the former president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and made up of lawyers, journalists and government officials, hired a university professor to guide it through classics like The Iliad that members may have, well, skimmed as undergraduates. Virginia Valentine, a liaison for Denver's Tattered Cover stores, finds that the book clubs' mainstays are women and that they...
...makers at Olds are seeking to shed the stodgy, budget-priced profile that appealed to older buyers (the average age of its Ciera sedan buyers crested at a silvery 68--it was your father's Oldsmobile) into one that is being meticulously groomed and patterned to attract upscale, younger import buyers...
...colleagues figured out how to cross that biological barrier, they ensured that others would follow. And although the Roslin researchers had to struggle for more than 10 years to achieve their breakthrough, it took political and religious leaders around the world no time at all to grasp its import: if scientists can clone sheep, they can probably clone people...
Clearly, this proposal is not currently mainstream, nor is there any indication that it is swimming thither. But we should not dismiss its prospective import, nor should we lose any time in pointing out its fundamental flaws. We should not react to undesirable trends in the rulings of the Supreme Court by advancing proposals which would undermine the basic fabric of American democracy. As Hamilton wrote, our Republic is and must be based on the conviction that "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts...