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...back as the 8th century, and one of the pleasures of reading the collection is to realize that nothing has changed. A millennium later, in our drastically different culture, we immediately relate to the 9th century provincial governor Taira no Kanemori ("Though I try to keep it secret,/ my deep love/ shows in the blush on my face./ Others keep asking me/ - Who are you thinking of?"). We recall the first rush of our own romances upon reading the 10th century aristocrat Fujiwara no Yoshitaka ("I always thought/ I would give my life/ to meet you only once...
...does the state of Texas seem to understand, entirely, what it's dealing with. At first glance, the YFZ ranch has the look of other compounds built by apocalyptic cults led by charismatic tyrants. But this is a group with a tangled history many generations deep. Renegade sects have kept polygamy alive by settling far from neighbors in places like the desert canyon lands of Utah and Arizona, the villages of northern Mexico and the alpine valleys of western Canada. They have intermarried and interbred to the point that, in the words of author Jon Krakauer, their "relationships are almost...
...white-male preserve of TV anchoring may get yet white-maler. Katie Couric, whose CBS Evening News remains in deep third place, reportedly may leave after the presidential Inauguration or sooner. Should Hillary pull the election out, the first female President could be sworn in just in time to say goodbye to the first solo female anchor...
...said that in researching her most recent book, “The Republic of Suffering,” she saw a lot of “soldiers from the Harvard student body who fought and died in the civil war often because of their deep abolitionist sentiments...
...contradictions and renders France - the first Western country to open a dialogue with communist China in the early '60s - particularly vulnerable to China's pressures. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new President, seems caught between his desire to show that he is not the prisoner of industrial lobbies and his deep concern for the future of numerous French contracts with China. He runs the risk of falling between two stools and giving the unsettling impression that his foreign policy is both hypocritical and incoherent...