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Carpet knotting was introduced to India in the 15th century. The weaver's art took root and quickly spread through the subcontinent. Masterpieces from Indian looms decorated the palaces of Mughal emperors but remained obscure to the West until the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The result: a profitable European market was opened, production increased to meet demand, and, inevitably, standards and quality declined. Erwin Gans-Ruedin's Indian Carpets (Rizzoli; 318 pages; $85) is a particolored object lesson in how art is overtaken by commerce. Carpets and rugs from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate...
...poverty to spark development; Ethiopia is, in many respects, too weakened to respond to "pressures" of that grisly nature. Nor does the solution lie in Indira Gandhi-like methods of population control. Unless the need for large families to increase agricultural production is alleviated by more efficient methods, the root cause will persist...
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...
...them as Sikhs. One of them, Beant Singh, was a favorite of Mrs. Gandhi's: she had known him for ten years. Only two months earlier, when Mrs. Gandhi was asked if she could trust Sikh guards in the wake of her controversial decision to have the Indian army root out Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, she had glanced at Beant Singh and said, "When I have Sikhs like this around me, then I don't believe I have anything to fear." When the director of the country's central intelligence organization suggested...
...what it comes down to, for both squads, is one very important fotball game. "It's a must game for us in terms of the Ivy title race," Rosenberg says. "And then we turn around next week and root for you guys...