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Lady Li's tomb was uncovered by Chinese archaeologists, who determined by the pottery, clothing and other artifacts found inside that it had been built during the early Western Han Dynasty, which ruled China from 206 B.C. to A.D. 24. The tomb was immediately recognized as a major historical...
As blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs...
Beri-Beri. Once he was shifted to rear echelon forces, he was treated more harshly. "At one point, I was told that if I had a nightmare and cried out once more in my sleep they would shoot me." The behavior of his captors varied considerably. "The range went from...
I would go even further. The censorship of art is, in practical terms, more important than the censorship of trash. If a work is attractive and adept, it has more chance of doing serious social damage than a work which is crude and exploitive. My own favorite candidate for total...
But 1972 has had little of all that. Columnist Marquis Childs was not exaggerating much when he described this presidential race as "one of the most unhappy campaigns in American history." The country's majority party was sundered. There was no real debate involved, for all the claims that...