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This sense of justice was informed by a sense of the divine. The Queen of the Night, a terra-cotta tablet that is the only other artwork to have survived from the period, displays a naked goddess wearing a horned headdress and carrying a rod - symbols of divinity and justice...
...streets ran parallel to the river. Between 1899 and 1917, German archeologists unearthed decorative elements that demonstrate the importance of Nebuchadnezzar's cosmic vision. Along Babylon's main thoroughfare, the Processional Way, there were palaces whose glazed bricks were adorned with 120 images of lions to honor Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. The road terminated at the Ishtar Gate, a massive structure encompassing the five fortification walls and rising more than 75 ft. (23 m). On its vivid blue, glazed-brick façade appeared 150 bulls and dragons, alternating in yellow and white, to honor Adad...
...goodbye to a few favorite works of art that would soon be departing the U.S. for good. First I headed to California and the Getty Villa in Malibu, a museum devoted to the ancient Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. I wanted a long last look at its statue of a goddess from the 5th century B.C. Scholars are divided over just which goddess she represents, but whoever she is, at 7.5 ft. (2.3 m) tall, she's a formidable woman, one of the most powerful works in the Getty's rich collection...
...museum after another went through something like the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross stages of accepting death. They bridled, they denied, they negotiated. Finally, they came to terms. In the case of the Getty, it agreed to return 39 objects in short order but got a temporary reprieve on the goddess until...
...Victory is easy. You thank everyone. You beam. You kiss your spouse and ride the goddess momentum all the way to New Hampshire. But what happens if you didn?t actually win? If possible, you declare victory anyway. The most famous example of the "declare victory" strategy was Bill Clinton in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. Many forget that Paul Tsongas - the lethargic, fiscal conservative from Massachusetts - actually won the '92 New Hampshire primary by 9 percentage points. But it was Bill Clinton who after staring down the media over an alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers and questions about his draft...