Word: anciently
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Last week, the American media filled in the gaps with stories about Chechen separatists hijacking a passenger airplane, militants carrying on a guerrilla war in Indonesia's Molucca islands, and the Taleban destroying ancient Buddhist statues--all in the name of Islam...
...driven by images from the West - Mitch Buchannon's Baywatch babes, Rose and Jack's steamy coupling on the doomed Titanic - and liberating new phenomena such as Internet chat rooms. Not that the West invented sexual freedom. Medieval Asian courts were the originals for Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Ancient India produced the Kama Sutra, setting an all-time sexiness standard for religious texts. China's Tao, or "The Way," cemented for centuries the uniquely Chinese concept that spiritual fulfillment demands good sex - and lots of it. The I Ching named the yin and yang, that most essential description...
This may be the most entertaining irony of human affairs. (Literally entertaining--we get any number of our movies, books and TV shows out of it.) In such an ancient predicament, can anything new ever happen? Sure it can. Proposing to tell God himself that he has no right to treat you unjustly was once a big advance (see Book of Job). So were trial by jury and the right to remain silent. So were fingerprinting and DNA evidence. So was the electric chair...
...announced target that has caused the most serious and concerted outcry from other nations, including some Muslim ones like Pakistan, is at Bamiyan, about 100 miles northwest of Kabul. There, in a valley, about a mile of soft-stone cliff is honeycombed with caves, many of them bearing ancient Buddhist wall paintings dating back to around the 4th to the 5th century A.D. The core of this already much defaced religious center, as it once was, consists of two gigantic standing figures of Buddha, recessed into the cliffs sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The larger of them...
...game, the movie plot has Croft setting out in search of an ancient and mystical artifact: in this case, the two components of the Clock of Ages, a dusty device that tracks the alignment of the planets and may help solve the mystery of her father's death. But there are changes in the way Croft goes about her business. Far from being a full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor...