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...latest purchase means that five heads are there already. Two are in a private European collection, and five are missing. But plenty of China's past is being hawked in the meantime. The Sotheby's auction that was to have included the horse head will feature items not necessarily looted but at least traceable to Qing palaces, including a jade seal worth up to $2.5 million and two paintings worth up to $1.9 million each. Those are high prices, but patriotic tycoons are happy to pay them...
...standing has been boosted by Brown's competent handling of terror attacks in London and Glasgow and an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The Prime Minister's stolidity, perceived only a few months ago as weakness, now reads like strength. "Not flash, just Gordon," runs Labour's latest slogan. In his convention speech - a doggedly uninspiring hour-long sermon bracketed by emotional ovations and punctuated by endearing verbal stumbles - Brown played up to his new image. "People say I am too serious and I fight too hard and maybe that's true," he said, but "things don't always...
...Pakistan's Supreme Court considers the latest petitions contesting his re-election bid--it already dismissed three such cases in September--Musharraf promised the court he would step down as army chief if re-elected President. The general, who became head of state in a bloodless coup in 1999, was given a one-time exemption to the constitutional law, allowing him to retain both positions until the end of his current term...
...notable works include Alien Fighting Dragon as well as the epic Robot Dragon. His work has been displayed throughout eastern Nebraska, most notably, on the refrigerator of Steve Batter, who “normally doesn’t put stuff on the fridge.” Catch his latest masterpieces every Tuesday, right here in The Harvard Crimson...
...many words in University President Drew G. Faust’s welcome letter to the community last week. And while Faust’s gargantuan letter might have sent some running for the hills, FM went in search of past presidential letters to see how Faust’s latest e-novel stacks up. Faust: 1,822 words Beginning with a romanticized view of the typical Harvard student, and detailing… well, to be honest, FM didn’t get much farther than that. While Faust found “something wonderfully energizing about September in Harvard Yard...