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...been called the greatest compliment ever paid to a woman. Built 3½ centuries ago by the bereaved Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Chosen of the Palace), the Taj Mahal is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful mausoleum in the world. Made of shimmering white marble from Rajasthan, its domes and minarets glow so brightly, even in moonlight, that large sections were wrapped in burlap during the most recent India-Pakistan war out of fear that Pakistani aircraft might use it as a beacon...
...pomp of their display: case after beautifully lighted case, spread wide out to allow for crowd passage, each enshrining its sparse array of broken pins and chipped beads. In this way the socially interesting small change of archaeology is implicitly promoted to "treasure": The Search for/ The Tomb of/ The Magic of/ The Curse of Someone or Other...
...world. The sense of crucifixion is gone. Instead, he reflects, "it was as if Christ had never really suffered and died, but had only had the Last Supper, with twelve smiling men of social commitment and three folk guitarists, and then knocked the stone away from the tomb...
...Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards at Lenin's tomb. They thought better of it - which is fortunate, since demonstrations there are forbidden. They're thinking of singing in front of the American embassy...
...meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi, but not the 100 meters." The other priority on his list was to take a look at Lenin in his tomb. "After all," he said, "we can't see George Washington...