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BUDDHIST ART: THE LATER TRADITION. Also at the Sackler is this comprehensive exhibit of Buddhist art from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and India that spans over a thousand years. Surveying the transmission of Buddhism throughout East Asia from the 10th through the 18th centuries, the exhibit features 72 pieces, including scroll paintings, Buddhist “sutras,” or sacred texts, Chinese censers, and Tibetan bell handles. See full story in last week’s issue. Through Sept. 7. Hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sundays...
...thousand of these letters go out everyday, tempting anyone with an inbox to steal what does not belong to them. It doesn’t take more than a rudimentary understanding of morality to realize that this type of theft is wrong, but apparently the Secret Service—the branch of the Treasury Department responsible for investigating counterfeiting and fraud—doesn’t possess even this threshold understanding. Instead of punishing or condemning these gluttons, our government treats them like victims...
...rapping about his desire to be somebody he can even be poignant. But he's also capable of disturbingly thuggish behavior. The track Wanksta is the latest salvo in an increasingly absurd feud 50 is conducting with rapper Ja Rule. Two years ago, Ja Rule was robbed of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry; later he saw 50 hanging out with the robber. 50 insists he had no connection with the crime and that, because of his background, he just happens to know people who do such things. But rather than let things cool down, 50 has gone after...
...desolate, hypnotic beauty where a lone horseman or vulture offers a rare burst of color. Few places have been so devastated by the dzud. One provincial official says the area's livestock population plunged from 2.95 million in 1999 to 1.86 million in 2001. Since then, a few hundred thousand more animals have died...
...thousand years ago, the streets of Rome had become fetid and knotted with traffic. Local rulers became so fed up that they declared: "The circulation of the people should not be hindered by numerous litters and noisy chariots." It was an early salvo in what would become an endless, thankless, unwinnable war. Around the same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers...