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...nerve to actually enter. To the occasion rose the wood-block printmaking business. At first its images were mainly black and white, as they had been almost since the art form arrived from China in the 8th century. By the early 1600s, printmakers had learned how to run a sheet of paper over two identical wood blocks, each one inked in a different color. By the 1740s several blocks were being used for a single picture, and luxurious calendars featuring polychrome prints became popular as New Year's gifts among smart Edo residents. King of the calendar prints was Suzuki...
Though the giant sign-up sheet is impressive (with space for up to 75 challengers to try their luck at the sport of kings and sultans), the twin centerpieces of magic and mayhem are two elegant Beirut tables—one marked with a large crimson H, the other sprayed with graffiti art—that dominate the room. On these pitches are heroes made...
ELECTION NIGHT CHEAT SHEET: How to follow the returns...
...This is my first day in this office," says Indonesia's newly installed president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he surveys a desk top unsullied by a single sheet of paper. The 55-year-old will likely soon find himself thinking wistfully back to a time when his desk was bare. There can't be many other jobs in the world that present a new leader with such a complex array of challenges as trying to govern the 17,500 islands strung along the equator that make up the world's fourth most populous country. Still, in his first interview since...
Salem wasn’t the only target town. ACT sends volunteers to all corners of the state, where they are dropped off with nothing but a map, a list of undecided voters, and a basic training sheet...