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...from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City. Some items reveal facets of their personalities; others are designed to create imperial images that would promote their subjects' fealty. So important were the artworks in buttressing the family's right to rule that Qianlong inspected them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked by financial bankruptcy and internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits...
...work so far. The new Prime Minister is likely to discover that he must act as al-Jaafari has: as a mediator and patchwork maker. Some analysts, attempting political clairvoyance, have said that the lack of a strong leader may then tempt one faction or another to stage a coup...
From his birthplace in Calvinist Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau migrated toward the hub of Enlightenment-era intellectual activity in Paris. Now, in a new biography, Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch returns Rousseau to center stage, where he belongs. Like a swift alpine stream, Damrosch’s writing is as enchanting as it is effortless. The biography is not only a pleasant read, but a welcome addition to bookshelves. Damrosch likes to note that this is the first single-volume Rousseau biography to be written in English. In an interview with The Crimson, Damrosch characterizes the only other...
Though the sophomore quarterback had four turnovers—two interceptions and two fumbles—he finished the day 22-of-35 for 251 yards and two touchdowns. His two-yard scamper following Breaux's reception tied the game at 24 and the stage was set for the remarkable extra periods...
...students gathered in the Yard last night to rally around the football team two days before The Game in the first pep rally in recent years. A sea of students wearing white “Yale Sucks” headbands cheered as the football team crowded on stage to receive the send-off, thanking the students for their support and assuring Harvard a victory. “We’re gonna dominate,” football team captain Erik Grimm ’06 said. “This is the 122nd time we play Yale. We?...