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...destroy the images of other faiths. It does forbid depicting the Prophet: it is not an iconic religion. But none of the teachings of Islamic faith give sanction to what the Taliban are up to. "The terrible irony," says Philippe de Montebello, director of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "is that Islam is essentially a tolerant faith--much more so than Christianity used to be." If there is practically no medieval art left intact in England, for instance, it is because the godly minions of Oliver Cromwell--ancestors of the Massachusetts Puritans--smashed and burned...
Unfortunately, there are no good grounds to suppose that the Taliban can be deflected from their benighted campaign. Even the Metropolitan Museum's offer to purchase and transport pieces of the two Bamiyan Buddhas to New York was rebuffed by Taliban officials. Last week a very faint ray of hope faded when Pakistan, the Taliban's closest ally, failed to dissuade them from going ahead with their plans. Pierre Lafrance, a UNESCO special envoy, was sent to talk to Taliban mullahs in Kandahar, but he found that "there was not the slightest hint of bargaining in their position. Their standard...
Deane dispatched a team of investigators to "the Track," a section of Atlanta's notorious Metropolitan Parkway, to do some digging. They soon discovered that the pimps specializing in underage girls weren't just independent street-corner operators but a loose organization that worked like a cartel. According to the government's indictment, the pimps relied on each other for condoms and drugs, routinely traded girls and even collaborated on professionally produced training films for fellow pimps and their young prostitutes, with such titles as Really Really Pimping in Da South and Pimpology. They also equipped their charges with fake...
...latest addition to the WHRB tradition is the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which WCRB, Boston's other classical music station, dropped last year. Aiese says the station has won over many new area listeners with the move...
...Pleas by the United Nations to save the giant Buddhas were ignored by the Taliban. So were offers made by India and the Metropolitan Museum in New York to buy the statues and have them removed, chunk by chunk, to safety. The Taliban vowed to press ahead with the demolition job; earlier, they drilled a hole in the larger statue's head so they could pack in dynamite there and around its feet, toppling the 1,400 year old colossus. The smaller statue was already badly damaged: as a cruel joke, Taliban militiamen had fired a rocket at its groin...