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...downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history - illustrated in gold and indigo - of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide...
...store near Medellín's bullring while he was studying to be a bullfighter himself; he was astonished when one sold for $2. Since few people in town had actually seen original works of art, Botero says he painted "by intuition," but quickly realized he had found his passion. He gently told his mother, Flora, that he wanted to be an artist. "She warned me, 'You're going to die of hunger,'" Botero recalls. "I couldn't care less. I was so happy." Botero proved his mother wrong the following year, when he was 17, by winning a national...
...fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play were secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd but also because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait till next year...
While campus leaders say they have a passion for politics, some won’t be headed to Washington immediately after graduation. Silvestri will attend medical school in the fall, though he says he may return to politics in the future...
...with baseball, that came later. No, I fell in love with what that team meant to my little rock of an island, with the fervor and the passion, with the tears of the grown men and the glee of the little boys...