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...Metropolitan Museum and others even offered to pay the Taliban for the safe removal of the statues. Where were the offers to help the people of Afghanistan escape the torture of Taliban rule? No one cared enough at the time, for, quite simply, the art was more precious than the people. (Incidentally, now that the people of Afghanistan are free from the Taliban, the reconstruction of one of the Bamiyan Buddhas is underway...
...focus will also be on writing music, in an effort to “keep the creative side of it going,” Armstrong says. However, writing their own music is difficult and uses up precious rehearsal time, Armstrong says...
...television viewing. Because I, like many students I know, don’t have a television at school—in my case, this is less a principled abstention than it is a recognition of my tendency to procrastinate—the promise of hours of television seemed especially precious, like quinine in a malarial climate. Clutching handfuls of tissues, I dragged myself to the couch, turned on The Today Show, and settled in for a therapeutic television marathon that, I calculated, would culminate with The Price Is Right. I planned not to move until Bob Barker had reminded...
...Systems in Orlando, Fla. Now the regimen, originally developed for world-class athletes like Pete Sampras and Dan Jansen, is available for $26, the price of The Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (Free Press). The authors argue that energy, not time, is our most precious resource. We should therefore forsake our national workaholism and take better care of ourselves. That way we will have more energy when we go to work. Get it? In a series of case studies, the authors pinpoint the lifestyle shortcomings of people who sound suspiciously like us ("Gary A.: APATHY...
...SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE," say the lucky ones who were. Of all the ball games, concerts and other live performances that go by the boards every day, a precious few live on. You probably have your own personal favorites: that wild day your home team finally won the Big One; the night in Jersey when the Boss was really on; the time you wandered into some jazz joint to find Coltrane at his peak. Then there are some we might all agree on--moments that marked a new phase in the arts or new heights of athletic achievement. We offer...