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...when Bethlehem was a town in a sleepy province of the Ottoman Empire, a local man built a magnificent house on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Made from the region's limestone-whose shades, from pale honey to dazzling white, give the Holy Land its distinctive palette-the house was built around courtyards and fountains in the Ottoman style; frescoes and mosaics graced its walls and ceilings. In the 1930s, the man's family went bankrupt. The house was later used as a prison by the British, when they governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate...
...spread of proselytizing faiths brought dispersed communities into contact." Coffee, for example, traveled with Islam (which forbade the consumption of wine), spreading from Yemen throughout the Arab world, then into Turkey and Europe. The constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished the Silk Road as an avenue of commerce. Sometimes religious divines explicitly advanced the process of globalization long before anyone knew of the word. I collect maps of the provinces of China drawn by Martino Martini, a 17th century Italian Jesuit missionary whose exquisite cartography revealed China to the world-and, indeed...
...whether or not you think that rule applies in this case, the whole thing did not leave me wondering whether the Clintons were now eyeing the Naval Observatory, where vice presidents live in Washington. Instead, I wondered about the wisdom of the way they had started down this Veepstakes road...
...different route, take a deep breath, lay low for a while, watch your rivals pick up barnacles and make mistakes, take the silent, high road and then emerge as the last person standing? Why isn't that approach smarter? After all, there is no huge rush. The campaign is exhausting, feelings get bruised, and it makes sense to give everyone involved in this race, both winners and losers, a little timeout before we ask them to make any really important decisions, like, say, choosing a vice president. So why not just wait on that conversation? In 2004, John Kerry...
...Anyway, given what happened before, and given the stakes this time, all that made me wonder if the Clintons decided to try a different strategy this time around. If they intend to succeed, I'm betting the Clintons will soon dial back their push and take the quieter, high road approach - if they haven't already...