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...York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it was one of the most popular shows since "Treasures of Tutankhamen" in 1978. It now moves to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and a national tour will follow. The publishing industry is launching yet another flotilla of books about the Kennedys, to take their place on shelves already crowded with books by them. The season's biggest--and oddest--Kennedy seller may be The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, edited by Caroline Kennedy. These poems are not, please note, written by Jackie but merely loved...
...Europeans viewed the sea as an obstacle, as something that stood in their way of riches and conquest." The Chinese took the Middle Kingdom out to sea with them. They had boats like floating farms, where they grew vegetables and raised pigs and chickens. Smaller sampans shuttled between the flotilla and the coastline, bringing aboard fresh water. It was more than just being package tourists, squeamish about the local cuisine; they were the Emperor's envoys and had to keep up imperial appearances. Besides, what restaurant along the way could handle the arrival of close to 30,000 hungry sailors...
...will soon release a film, two TV mini-series, a full-length opera and countless books and articles about the historical conquest of Taiwan, all to fuel a sense of nationalistic indignation in its citizens. They focus mostly on events that occurred three centuries ago, when China dispatched a flotilla to grab Taiwan back from foreign (Dutch) hands. The Chinese have a term for such use of history: "shooting from shadows...
...Beautification and Restoration Project has been at it for almost four years. After waking each morning on the crowded houseboat that is home to himself, five assistants and three dogs, he ventures out among the sloughs and sandbars to battle a rising tide of trash and fill the small flotilla of rusting barges that he pushes upstream with the help of passing tugboats, a clutch of corporate sponsors and sheer willpower...
Between the two poles was a sizeable flotilla of moderate leftists, including intellectual students like the future Vice President Al Gore '69 who sympathized with the demonstrators but stayed in the dorm during protests...