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...Among the exhibit's most strikingly bizarre objects is a gilt and silver ewer, which was entombed with Li Xian, a general during the short-lived Northern Zhou dynasty (559-581) in Ningxia. The ewer's shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological...
...Addams Family." While the first film yawned its way through endless exposition, particularly in a subplot that attempted to explain Samara’s backstory, The Ring Two moves briskly along, losing momentum only in the final thrust as its expected pseudo-metaphysical, semi-Freudian conclusion begins to take shape...
...first time, another historic milestone in Iraq's transition to democracy. Besides appointing a government and governing the country over the next year, the Assembly will oversee the drafting of a new Iraqi constitution. How that document will turn out, and whether the new Iraq will take the shape that the U.S. would like, is still very much up in the air, and will depend on how Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis accommodate their differing concerns. A look at some of the issues...
...Can’t we just build a fucking bomb the size of the earth and cut a hole in the middle in the shape of The United States?” asks one of the two men in a strip from Nov. 8, 2001. “Drop the motherfucker around us and take care of business once...
...Just as our work on Harvard College Libraries sought the input and involvement of the student body through surveys, future initiatives require the earnest effort on the part of the UC to translate student realities and student concerns to those people who run this College. Just as students shape their lives to the institutions at Harvard, so too administrators would do a service in continuing to accommodate Harvard facilities to the needs of its students. On what, then, should the College next focus its attention...