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BUDDHIST ART: THE LATER TRADITION. This comprehensive exhibit at the Sackler of Buddhist art from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet and India spans more than a thousand years. Surveying the transmission of Buddhism throughout East Asia from the 10th through the 18th centuries, the exhibit feature 72 pieces, including scroll paintings, Buddhist “sutras” or sacred texts, Chinese censers and Tibetan bell handles. See full story in the Feb. 14 Arts section. Through Sept. 7. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders...
...final day, Morris worked out for all the scouts and coaches, going through the same drills he’d done a thousand times. While he ran a relatively pedestrian 4.65 seconds in the 40-yard dash—which measures pure speed—Morris continued to showcase his body control and soft hands...
...course, the muscular assertion of Shiite identity and claims is not necessarily at odds with U.S. plans for a post-Saddam Iraq. Indeed, an anti-American demonstration held Wednesday at the culmination of the Kerbala pilgrimage drew only a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Much depends, in fact, on the exact nature of Washington's plans. And those are the subject of a fierce, and increasingly bitter political firefight in Washington - witness the charge Defense Policy Board member Newt Gingrich, Tuesday, that State Department officials on Garner's team had been sent to undermine President Bush...
...Iraqi regime disintegrated left little time for celebrating. Who was going to turn the electricity back on, restore order to the cities and prevent a civil war from breaking out between Arabs and Kurds in the north, between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in the south or within the thousand pockets of hate that a merciless regime left behind? In Najaf a meeting that the U.S. arranged between rival Shi'ite clerics to pave a road to reconciliation ended with both being hacked to death by an angry mob. In Kirkuk a Saddam loyalist who surrendered to Kurdish fighters...
When White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked who at the moment was in charge in Iraq, he answered, "The taste of freedom." The sudden, gaping absence of a police state produced a spectacle of chaos magnified by the presence of a thousand cameras to capture it. As looters rolled down the street with their bathtubs, carts full of ceiling fans and chandeliers liberated from government buildings, they insisted that they were retrieving goods stolen from them over many years of kleptocracy. It was as though they needed to find their own way to take the regime apart, brick...