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Hicham Aboutaam, who is co-owner with his brother, Ali, of Phoenix Ancient Art in New York City and Geneva, attributes the increasing value to a couple of factors. For one, there is now a finite number of legitimate objects circulating in the U.S. due to more stringent art import legislation, enacted within the last few years. In addition, there is an increased interest in art and antiquities as investment. "People have started to appreciate the fact that this is a field where you can still get high quality objects for a fraction of what you would spend...
...effort to steer you away from the road of rash generalizations, I'd like to object to your preview of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, in which you wondered how the film's "buckets of gore" and singing and dancing might attract or repel "fogies" and kids [Dec. 3]. I'm a 17-year-old theatergoer, and I don't think kids are looking to Sweeney Todd for Saw IV thrills. Besides, the R rating precludes the Disney audience. And have you checked out Broadway lately? I believe the "fogey" audience has become accustomed to situations that are more violent...
Newton’s first law states that an object in motion stays in motion. Harvard women’s fencing team has yet to defy it. Chugging along with nothing to stop it, the Crimson capped off its fall season last night with a 21-6 victory over Tufts at the Malkin Athletic Center. The foil and sabre fencers continued the dominance its shown all season, going 9-0 and 8-1, respectively, while the epee lost its final bout to fall 5-4. Despite fatigue from a nine-match week, last night was a relief for the fencers...
...raunchiest of magazines, earned her wrath. “They ignore women’s sports for 11 months out of the year, and then for one month we become the sport,” she said of the (in)famous swimsuit issue. One female audience member dared object to Dine’s tirade on the “invisibility” of women who did not conform to the slut culture, suggesting that these women bring it upon themselves by masking their femininity with pants suits and unfashionable haircuts. “They don’t look...
...other showing a cabal of Orthodox Jews slitting the throat of an Arab boy, pouring his blood into a basin, and making Passover matzah that they boast tastes much better than the ordinary kind. Why does our media repeat and recreate these anti-Semitic images, even as we object to anything that touches Muslim honor? Why are we fed this scummy hatred of Jews instead of being encouraged to visit Israel and to study Hebrew?And then there’s Iran, not Arab but Muslim, hence not included in the above statistic (613,660 square miles, population over...