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Terracota army at British Museum Gideon Levy
Art can do many useful things. It can decorate, commemorate, remember, describe, envisage. These are important functions, and human history is busy with examples of all of them. But the spellbinding exhibition that has arrived at the British Museum devoted to Ying Zheng, the First Emperor of China, shows art performing one of its rarest duties. |
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A British couple described last night how they crawled around their shaking hotel room seeking safety as an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale claimed hundreds of lives in central Peru. Darfour advocacy group undergoes a shake-up Even as advocacy groups attained the seeming triumph of President Bush’s new sanctions against Sudan, the organization that helped bring the conflict in Darfur to the world’s attention is in upheaval, firing its executive director, reorganizing its board and rethinking its strategies.
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Graham Forster may have come to Spain partly in search of the sun, but sea and sand can’t have had too much to do with it. The pretty Andalusian village where he has settled is a 40-minute drive from the coast – or would have been had I been able to find the winding road to it on my map. Again children. Five children killed in Gaza in eight days. The public indifference to their killing - the last three, for example, were accorded only a short item on the margins of page 11 in Yedioth Ahronoth, a sickening matter in itself - cannot blur the fact that the IDF is waging a war against children.
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Historia
Six
days of success. Then 40 years of bitter harvest
In ancient document, Judas minus the Betrayal
Ciencia
Russia plants flag in bid for Artic riches
Long-Studied Giant Star Displays Huge Cometlike Tail
Cultura
Sgt. Pepper´s 40th anniversary
Personajes
The Times obituary: Oriana Falacci
Mstislav Rostropovich, russian cellist, dies aged 80
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