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...decided to take pictures of them in the jerseys they wore in the Super Bowls." Easier said than done, however. Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page of Super Bowl XI, now a special assistant to the Minnesota attorney general, and former Los Angeles Ram Fred Dryer of Super Bowl XIV, now an actor on the TV series Hunter, were not interested in re-creating their gridiron days. "I appealed to Dryer's sportsmanship and persuaded Page by telling him to pretend he was being photographed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame," says Golon...
...Pyrenees are no more," said Louis XIV of France when his grandson Philip acceded to the throne of Spain, and it's tempting to think that the same is true of the Himalayas. The visit to India that starts this week by Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, is being spun as a celebration of relations between Asia's giants that are good, and getting better. Whatever the truth of that claim, this much is certain: very soon, meetings between the leaders of China and India will not be of merely regional interest. They will be watched by the whole world...
...themes. The potential for increased human happiness flowing from China's and India's continued economic and cultural development is almost limitless. But the possibility of future conflict cannot be discounted. There's no reason that history should repeat itself. Still, it's worth remembering that shortly after Louis XIV proclaimed the disappearance of the Pyrenees, Europe was plunged into long and bloody war. It will take more than seminars on development economics to guarantee that Asia does not go the same...
Monday, March 7. Hot Hot Heat with Louis XIV and The Information. All ages. 7 p.m. Axis, 13 Landsdowne Street, Boston. $15. Tickets available through Next Ticketing...
...George W. Bush’s born-again Christian experience—which he called “probably genuine” while charging that Bush’s religious discovery coincided with his political ambitions—to a comparison between the Bushes and the French monarchs Louis XIV...