Word: mesopotamians
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...three dogs and one monkey on a leash - together they assemble on a narrow island in the Seine to enjoy a summer?s day and the spectacle of one another. What?s wrong with this picture? From a distance some of the figures have the heft and stability of Mesopotamian statuary. But step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple on the right - he with...
...menacing force is roaming the Iraqi countryside. They are armed to the teeth, and they want your pottery. They call themselves the “Culture Cops,” and their Italian-designed, vase-emblazoned uniforms are the hottest thing to hit the Mesopotamian marshes since the July United Service Organizations tour of California’s recently-inaugurated governor. Officially known as the Archaeological Site Protection Force, this band of former civilian guards represents America’s latest attempt to quell the broad criticism of its failure to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures from being...
Where, after all, are the prizes that the West's Mesopotamian adventure was designed to find? The weapons of mass destruction--the thousands of tons of unaccounted-for anthrax and botulinum toxins and all the other deadly weapons we were fighting to destroy in Iraq--have not yet been found. Yes, a great deal of Saddam's WMD infrastructure is there, and his record of deploying them is a matter of history. But the weapons themselves? We haven't found them after months of looking. Bush's fault? If it was, then the fault was shared by almost every Democrat...
...might seem daunting for students who passed over Economics 1745: “Corporate Finance” to compete with business majors at other schools. But fortunately for those who spent their Harvard life indulging their loves for Celtic runes or Mesopotamian poetry, companies do not expect their recruitees to know about capital markets—although, if you’re applying for an investment-banking job, now might be a good time to start learning, even if only...
...museum's vaults. In addition, they trashed the institution's records, as if to ensure that it would be tough to alert art dealers to hot merchandise entering the black market. "I would be very surprised if it weren't professional looting," says John Malcolm Russell, an expert in Mesopotamian archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston...