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...various wives, of course). Competition among the young men was fierce, and the victor, who took the name Yongzheng, was forced to spend most of his 13 years in power defending his claim. One remarkable hanging scroll, painted in the second year of Yongzheng's reign by the Jesuit priest Giuseppe Castiglione - who had been brought to court by Kangxi and lasted well into Qianlong's time - can be read as a political piece. Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma was commissioned to mark the Emperor's birthday and is replete with imagery. The pine tree stands for wisdom and long...
Their adaptation of the horrifically bad 1996 sci-fi TV-movie featured everything from a gender-confused priest, Philip, played by Laura D. Hallett ’06, to a memorable “poltergasm” scene. Fellow performer Sara F. DiMaggio ’06 describes the scene as “an orgasm where you suddenly turn into a poltergeist...
...often than not, known for their martial prowess as opposed to their eloquence, but I have yet to hear as excellent and pithy a summation of a man as I did on the day of my grandfather’s funeral. Several of his children, grandchildren, and the parish priest had already spoken, offering sincere yet unremarkable praise of his conduct in this world and his fate in the next. The final speaker was a friend of my grandfather’s who had also served in the pacific theater during the Second World War. The marine made...
...outsourcing of torture practices to Syria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt—all of which have been cited for human-rights violations by the State Department. A corollary to this practice is CIA operated secret prisons in Thailand and Eastern Europe, as recently reported by Dana Priest in The Washington Post. Such forays into ethically murky territory—to say the least—do no small harm to U.S. credibility abroad. On Jan. 27, President Bush assured us that “torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture...
...made my vow of chastity, but that did nothing to remove the strength of desire, to which I have succumbed in passing fashion." ABB? PIERRE, 93-year-old Roman Catholic priest and one of France's most revered public figures, suggesting he has had sex, in a book excerpted last week