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...system of unequal costs, unshared burdens and unceasing strife seems likely to continue. After all, there’s historical precedent—acquisitions of land by the Church continued almost unabated after 1279. Undying corporations do tend to stick around, especially ones that are already many centuries (or millennia) old. But it’s about time that the people of Massachusetts took the responsibility to preserve the local tax base out of Harvard’s dead hand and into their...
...them near 55m tall - could not touch the tenets of Buddhism, the destruction of part of the world's cultural heritage caused widespread outrage. It highlighted the contrary nature of the "nation" of Afghanistan, a place forever falling apart under the weight of war, but which over millennia has also produced wondrous works...
...marked departure for the author of Love Story, the novel that inspired the movie of the same name (which is a Crimson Key favorite), Erich Segal’s The Death of Comedy traces the development of comedy through two millennia of human history...
...millennia ago, a wise man counseled us to love those who hate us. He had a way of making difficult requests. But he knew something we ought all to have learned now: that the cost of hatred is hell on earth. And he had an idea for how effectively to respond to hatred, long-term, about the only decent such idea anyones ever had: to show respect for the humanity of others, evenno, especiallyin the face of disrespect for our own. My hope, my prayer, is that our new, or renewed, appreciation of the costs of hatred might commit...
...outdone, Sting will perform amid Roman ruins at Lebanon's Baalbeck Festival on July 13 and 14, while Elton John will play at the Grand Theater of ancient Ephesus on July 17. These singers may have been around for a few decades, but their venues? Millennia. Talk about staying power...