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...said the panel often indicated the fourth floor of Gilbert--Kirk's floor--as the origin of Currier's alarms, so Friday evening didn't seem very unusual at first...
...example, Brown recalls the origin of "Georgia," a poem from her recent show. The poem explores a young man's struggle to reconcile his love for his mother with his hatred for the slave master who raped his grandmother, she says...
When Turning Leaf hit the shelves in September 1995, the only hint of its origin was the Modesto, California, address; the word Gallo was nowhere to be found. Boosted by advertising, the wine sold 1.3 million cases in 1996, second to Kendall-Jackson. In April 1996, after hearing complaints that consumers thought Turning Leaf was his product, Jackson sued...
...heaven, a concept probably borrowed from Hinduism, in which gods and goddesses inhabit a series of heavens. The primal heaven, however, was probably the one called Sukhavati, which may itself have borrowed some elements from the florid paradises of Zoroastrian Persia (whence the word pairi-daeza, or enclosure, the origin of our word paradise). As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks the whole Buddha country shines." Presided over by the Amitabha Buddha, Sukhavati, according to the ancient texts...
...numbers of civilians killed. These killings continue, as the families of the 200 Palestinian civilians killed since the Oslo agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose assets exist to benefit "persons of Jewish religion, race or origin." The Jewish Agency, which has a similar mandate, controls much of the development budget: through a variety of legal ruses, state benefits to large families have been tailored largely to exclude Israel's Arab citizens. Israel is not a democracy for all of its citizens (which is not even...