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...just another Clinton book. In fact, it is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened - to the military, to the economy, to the American people and to the country - during Bill Clinton's presidency." Klein, who has followed Clinton since the latter was the governor of Arkansas, was granted three exclusive interviews with Bubba...
...critics, but it didn't set any fires at the box office. Since then, however, Owen has established his unique profile with supporting roles in big popcorn hits like 1998's Armageddon and last year's double-header Meet the Parents and Shanghai Noon. (He wrote some of the latter film's funniest dialogue as Jackie Chan's cowboy sidekick...
...sounds more Taliban than zen , but there is a saying among teachers of the latter way of life, "If you see the Buddha, kill him!" The point being made in Zen's challenging way is that Buddha was a teacher not a god, and therefore visions or worship of him are forms of idolatry his followers should not fall...
Afghanistan has been subject to so many invasions and influences that new terms have had to be found for some of its art, as in Greco-Buddhist. The latter stems from the arrival of the best known of the conquerors, the Macedonian Alexander the Great. Pierre Cambon, chief conservator of Paris' Guimet Museum and commissioner of this exhibition, explains that although Alexander the Great ruled Afghanistan for only three years [330-327 B.C.] and died in his early 30s, his adventures and the mystique that surrounded them helped build yet another of the bridges to Afghanistan, this time reaching from...
...world of the giant Buddhas and sacked the national museum in Kabul, many works of art that flowed from the cultural confluences in Afghanistan over thousands of years have been saved by traffickers selling them to outsiders, or by foreign archaeological expeditions. One of the most important of the latter was the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, which was invited there in 1922 by the then King and which excavated near Kabul what has become known as the treasure of Begram. Among its finds was a trunk covered in carved ivory. Photos...