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...piece that—surprisingly—has been left out of the anthology is former books and arts editor Joseph Bottum’s October 2004 article on Harvard constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe. Bottum revealed that Tribe, in a 1985 book on Supreme Court appointments, included a 19-word passage that was lifted verbatim—without attribution—from an earlier text by a University of Virginia political scientist...
...from the vibrant Tang dynasty so interesting. During this period, trade along the Silk Route was at its height, and foreigners, like this Central Asian carrying a cornucopia-shaped wine vessel, were welcomed and valued at the cosmopolitan capital, Xi'an. When the Tang dynasty disintegrated, the northern Khitan tribe established the Liao dynasty around Beijing. It is represented here by two extraordinary gilded funeral masks - you can tell which one is the woman by her headgear and earring. The renovation gives the Cernuschi more exhibition space - the area for special shows is currently devoted to a collection of celadons...
Chief F. Ryan Malonson of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah also delivered a “Message to the Ancestors,” during which he asked the crowd gathered in the Yard to join together and hold hands in order to form a large circle that he said was suggestive of the power of community and the cyclical nature of time...
...Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain. Newly published in English, it comes with a map of the many trans-Caucasian journeys recounted, plus a glossary of words imported from Arabic, Hindi, Kyrgyz and Russian: you're in for a long - and enchanting - trip. Kaja, born into the nomadic Tunshan tribe in the late 1930s, can trace her ancestry back to Genghis Khan. She grows up in the warm embrace of family and clan, close to nature though not entirely removed from civilization. "We were tolerant, or perhaps merely eclectic," she says. "You cannot live at the crossroads of the caravans...
Because “there are an innumerable number of ambiguities in the Constitution,” Tribe said, “trying to find out what [Roberts’ judicial] lens is like is different from trying to find out what his political views...