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...part due to the town's efforts to move beyond the violence of 2005 and find a different focus and identity for its inhabitants. One manner of doing that, Beldjoudi says, was to delve into and highlight the different cultural and artistic influences that generations of immigrants had brought to Aulnay over the years. (See a TIME video on the Musical Show Grammy nominees...
...Gandhara kingdom and its art are important because it shows the impact of Hellenistic influence brought by Alexander the Great and his Macedonians. Likewise Gandharan Buddhist art reached as far as China, Korea, and Japan. After it became part of the pre-Islamic Persian Empire, Gandhara's culture went on to influence artistic developments in the Middle East. Peshawar, Swat and much of northern Pakistan lay astride a portion of the old Silk Road, the ancient highway that transported riches between the east and west. Indeed, the Jehanabad Buddha looks out over a stretch of the old path. Later...
...long-running battle for custody of 9-year old Sean Goldman ended Thursday morning with the boy's Brazilian stepfamily delivering him to his American father in Brazil, bringing to an end the five-year saga. Sean Goldman was brought into the U.S. consulate by his maternal grandmother and his stepfather, entering the compound's front door as a throng of reporters and cameramen tried to get close. His father, David Goldman, was waiting for him inside. Sean cried as his Brazilian relatives and family lawyer tried to get him through the scrum. He carried his luggage and wore...
...Sean was born in New Jersey in 2000, the only son of David Goldman and his Brazilian wife, Bruna Bianchi. However, Bruna brought the child to visit her family in Brazil in 2004 and never returned. She divorced David and married Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, a well-known Rio de Janeiro lawyer. The couple kept Sean in Brazil, and David Goldman's legal efforts to regain custody were rebuffed by Brazilian courts on the grounds that the boy's relationship with his mother was his primary bond...
...Pacquiao and Mayweather never meet in the fight, it will be a major body blow to boxing, a sport that seemed to gain mainstream momentum this year, mostly because of charismatic Pacquiao's rags-to-riches story. His November fight in Las Vegas against Miguel Cotto brought worldwide, and more importantly American, attention back to the fight game. After Pacquiao defeated Cotto there was immediate talk of a bout with Mayweather. The crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas chanted, "We want Floyd! We want Floyd!" (See the rise of mixed martial arts: the new rules of fight club...