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When Philip III ascended to the Spanish throne in 1598, he was 19 years old and uninterested in the responsibilities of a monarch. His friend the Duke of Lerma–the court’s preeminent tastemaker as well as the most important non-royal art collector in Europe–took over matters of state, while Philip squandered vast sums of money on lavish fiestas and foreign wars. The King and the Duke shared a mutual devotion to art that ushered in a dynamic period in Spanish painting, now featured in an outstanding new exhibit...
...instance, is not San Francisco or Berlin; it's Mysore, in southern India, which each year draw several thousand yoga pilgrims from around the world. Mysore began its journey towards yoga mecca-dom in 1931, when a 40-something, five-foot-two-inch Brahmin was summoned by the ailing monarch of what was then a princely state under British tutelage. Numerous doctors had failed to cure the king's affliction, but the yogi succeeded within a few months, and the king rewarded him by building him a yogashala (yoga school) in his grand palace. It was here that the yogi...
Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velzquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...family did not pay any tax. By removing Thaksin from power, the junta may have thought it could unite an increasingly polarized country. But even after the military regime publicized a litany of complaints against Thaksin-alleged corruption, abuse of power and even disrespect for the country's beloved monarch-his populist policies still resonated with many rural poor. Samak's victory came precisely because of support from these voters, who still believe that Thaksin-or, failing that, his proxy-is the only person who will help them with microfinancing or affordable healthcare...
...With this type of illiberal, even violent image of students in administrators’ minds, it is not surprising that University Hall acts like an absolute monarch, supposedly “saving” us students from our warring nature. Nor is it surprising that Harvard Law School Professor Harvey A. Silverglate titled his recent book on how colleges govern “The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses,” or that he called the Ad Board “outrageous” at a recent dinner with students, and said...