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...culture of entitlement." Congressmen have always envied the corporate life, and never tire of telling you how much more money they would be making if they hadn't selflessly decided to run for office. In recent years, as commercial airline travel has become an ordeal, nothing has been more precious to them than the ability to catch a corporate jet when they wanted to, paying only a fraction of the real cost, out of either government funds or their campaign accounts. And of course, the companies were happy to oblige-almost always sending along a few of their lobbyists...
...Culturally precious, yes, but do they belong in a modern art museum? Designed to be sat and slept on rather than scrutinized, these textile treasures, which are typically stacked high to connote social standing, delightfully confound our expectations of contemporary art. So how does Finau Mara's exquisitely woven baby mat fit with, say, British artist Tracey Emin's unmade bed? It was exactly this outsider status that made the QAG's curator of contemporary Pacific art, Maud Page, excited about bringing such material into a gallery. As she puts it, "How can we deal with the rest...
...world's second tallest peak, K2, the American mountaineer Greg Mortenson was rescued by residents of Korphe, a remote village high in the Pakistani Himalayas. Grateful for their assistance, Mortenson vowed to build the villagers a school. He returned home to San Francisco, sold everything he owned (including his precious climbing gear), and then embarked on the most arduous quest of his career. Three Cups of Tea, co-written by journalist David Oliver Relin, is the account of Mortenson's extraordinary effort to give a school to Korphe and many other villages in the Taliban heartland. After 13 years...
Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier’s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...
...Until then, the sarcophagus is a little like your great-great-great-grandmother's precious pearls, which the family knew were somewhere in the attic, and finally turned up when someone went digging. You knew they were there; you found them again. The family is free to believe that they are worth millions; but an objective gem assessor might apply a tougher set of criteria...