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...more than a year later, the six statuettes have been returned to China. They're currently on show at a tatty museum on the outskirts of Xi'an in a display proudly titled "The Special Exhibition of Returned Pottery Figures of Western Han Dynasty from America." Pointedly, each statuette still has a tag from Sotheby's attached to its feet. Li Ku, vice director of the museum, rejoices in the figurines' return. "Looking at these figures, I feel like my family has come home at last," he says...
...those movie characters who are guilty until proved interesting - make Molloy's every flirtation sound like a threat, a dirty secret, a dream as scary as it is seductive. In the Cut prizes atmosphere over coherence; it's as much a thing of pieces as the corpses on display. So don't expect a thriller with standard satisfactions. Instead, tiptoe in and have a guilty peek at Hollywood when it takes its own rare walk on the grown-up side...
During the 1970s, creditors like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were flush with “petrol dollars,” profits generated by the OPEC oil monopoly. In a display of remarkable unrestraint, these creditors pushed questionable loans on developing countries. Prominent among the loan recipients were a cast of unscrupulous dictators who used the easy cash to pad their Swiss bank accounts and repress their own citizens. Selfless leaders like Mubutu of Zaire, Marcos of the Philippines, Suharto of Indonesia, and Idi Amin of Uganda may no longer be in power, but thanks...
...from binge drinking, the culture and social life at Harvard also perpetuate alcohol abuse and determine whether students seek treatment. These issues are essential to understanding and improving students’ relationships with alcohol, and they fall under the purview of the committee. Many first-years and upperclass students display nonchalance toward alcohol or valorize excessive drinking. For reform to be truly effective, policies must work to change student attitudes as well as behavior...
...China's amicable stance toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes...