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...This ability to demonstrate the Silk Road's influence over the lives of the people who lived along its path is the great achievement of the British Library's exhibition, which runs until September 12 in London. Unlike the countless adventurers the Silk Road has attracted over two millennia, the exhibition is not after earthly treasures or visions of empire but focuses on the trade route's role as a passage for ideas. Though the exhibition, which has been five years in the making, brings together pieces from museums such as the Mus?e Guimet in Paris, the Museum of Indian...
...Hector's stuff's not meant for the exam, sir," one of the boys tells Irwin. "It's to make us more rounded human beings." Put that way, it sounds wet. But Bennett wants us to consider what we learn and why we learn it. He believes that millennia of poetry, plays, history can be as fulfilling as everything we think we need to know from right now. He is defiantly anachronistic, like the more enlightened headmaster in his first stage play, Forty Years On. Told his standards are out-of-date, the headmaster snaps, "Standards are always...
...humanity in mind. In this spirit, we observe that in our sexuality is found the means for creating our greatest gift—life itself. In it is found the most intimate communion that a man and woman can achieve. For millennia, cultures have protected marriage because they recognized the stability that was afforded by the healthy sexual union of a man and woman. When sex is tragically separated from the union of marriage, however, it is empirically a source of destruction, corruption and decay. Nor is this an accident...
Apparently unsatisfied with 141 years worth of their own tradition and two millennia of Catholic tradition, Boston College (BC) has formed a “Student Tradition Task Force” charged with devising additional useless rituals. Perhaps BC can take a page or two from Harvard, that venerable old repository of pointless and counterproductive traditions. A few suggestions...
...before George W. Bush's abrupt announcement last Tuesday that he had decided to support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. "After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience," said Bush, "a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization." With that, the President put himself firmly in the camp of his restless conservative base. Not incidentally, Bush also opened the way to make gay marriage the ultimate wedge issue in November, even though, when all is said and done, Bush and Democratic front runner John...