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Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck makes a now-famous remark to the effect that, if you know only one language, basically you don't know any language at all: since you can't imagine that your own cunning little world has a boundary, the idea...
Another silver lining: record companies don't necessarily have to pay out the vast sums that get bandied about in the press. Jackson's megadeal might, like her stage show, be partly smoke and mirrors. Record contracts, like movie deals, are often larded with clauses and subclauses that make interpreting...
Vermeer is more difficult. From the moment it opened two months ago, it was besieged by art lovers--as many as 4,000 a day, lining up to see 21 paintings, two-thirds of the master's surviving output. Because Vermeer's work is so rare, no such gathering of...
Despite the seeming calm on the military front, hundreds of nervous Bosnian Serbs were packing up and fleeing Sarajevo in anticipation of Bosnian Muslims taking control of the city beginning January 19. It is unclear how significant this movement is, says Alexandra Niksic, because many of those lining the roads...
HE CERTAINLY HAS BEEN THE MOST INFLUential Speaker of the House in the past century, since Joseph Cannon. Sam Rayburn was respected and influential, but he was not an active formulator of agendas. He was very influential in lining up votes and he was consulted by the President, but he...