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...village’s clay to the braided grass impressed upon the pots to add texture, every material used was completely natural and close at hand. Although this pottery—which is primarily used for cooking and storing food—is threatened by an inundation of modern wares from abroad, the pots and their uses have not changed. “Form always came from function,” Hoy said. She recounted that whenever she would attempt a new shape, her teacher would come over and mold it into a traditional one.“I think...
...form today to leave the bodies of pirate captains hanging in chains from a gibbet at the Mogadishu dock until the maggots ate out their eyes--as was done in the Caribbean long ago. But we might as well be honest: if we are to combat the scourge of modern piracy, then force must be used against force. When Tripoli demanded tribute from the U.S. in return for not capturing Americans at sea, Thomas Jefferson noted, "The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean." Right then; right...
...extermination of piracy is necessary for maintaining international peace and trade. The United States’ first venture into foreign military intervention occurred when Jefferson sent the navy to fight Barbary pirates in 1801. We should take a page out of Jefferson’s book: A modern naval expedition freed from ineffective international law needs to be sent to wipe out these criminals...
...succeed at modern diplomacy, it helps to take the long view. As word trickled out that President-elect Barack Obama was considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, Clinton was on the phone with the President of Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari was calling with a long-overdue thank-you. Back in 1998, when Zardari's late wife Benazir Bhutto was powerless and out of favor with the United States, the then First Lady had received her at the White House, over the objections of both the State Department and the National Security Council. Bhutto eventually regained her influence, and before...
...leader, the Dalai Lama, has long advocated a democratic decision-making process, but Tibetans' reverence for him has inhibited many of them from speaking out in any way that might challenge his authority. "This is the problem with having God as your leader," says Tsering Shakya, a professor of modern Tibetan history at the University of British Columbia. A referendum in the early 1990s on whether to give the Dalai Lama a mandate to follow his "Middle Path," seeking autonomy within China, resulted in such overwhelming support that some Tibetans doubted that it was a true expression of democracy. "People...