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...evening of February 9, a landmark building in the Beijing skyline, the Television Cultural Center, was consumed by fire just a few weeks ahead of its grand opening. Ironically, fireworks celebrating the end of the Chinese New Year were responsible for starting the blaze. In a sad spectacle rich with historical metaphors, it was as if the old Chinese spirit rebelled against the tyranny of the glass and metal skyscraper behemoths now being erected across China...
...Americans are seldom familiar with the personal elements of Islam. “Muslim societies have been perceived in the media as one dimensional,” Asani says. “But there are many other dimensions, such as art, literature, music and poetry, which create a very rich mosaic rarely portrayed.” This mosaic is what these photographs begin to reveal. “I was struck by how well [the photographs] were selected to portray at least three important themes of peace, passion, and submission. These themes are of course central in Sufi thought...
Bachmann, Rep. Michele • concern of that "we're running out of rich people in this country...
...rigged game, but on Wall Street, lavish pay packages have never been restricted to the top of the executive ladder. Top-performing investment bankers and traders were paid big sums because otherwise they might jump ship to a rival bank or a hedge fund. And nobody was forcing rich people and pension funds to entrust their money to high-fee private-equity firms and hedge funds. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...factual. But it is the character of Okura, a Japanese officer steeped in samurai values, that gives the novel real soul. Alisjahbana hits a rich seam of tragedy in Okura's battle to reconcile defeat with honor. Only by rejecting the samurai tradition of seppuku, or ritual suicide, can Okura see a future in his shattered country. Dearest to Alisjahbana's heart, of course, is Indonesia's independence, declared in the language he codified. But his depiction of Okura - as a metaphor for Japan's rebirth in a new, humanist world - is evidence of a magnanimous and rare sensibility among...