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...She is Buddhist and these beads were given to her by her monk....
...The author Alex Bellos writes: “The phrase ‘Brazilian soccer player’ is like the phrases ‘French chef’ or ‘Tibetan monk’....
...Cauleen Smith’s “Epistrophy”, named after a Thelonious Monk composition, projects Nasa videos of the Earth and landscape photographs across a table top still life of symbolic objects — statuettes, jewellery...
...Peering through an hourglass gateway, modelled after the dried gourd filters used in the Chinese tea ceremony, I find the only other patrons: a saffron-robed Buddhist monk speaking to an elderly couple at...
...Historian Timothy Snyder and philosophy professor Jason Stanley are among those in no doubt that it is time to act....
...Colleagues called him “a secular European monk”. Over the years power has concentrated in the chef de cabinet, the political right hand of Commissioners and occasional purveyor of the dark arts....
...A law like that makes such demands on one’s understanding that only an obsessive or a monk could develop the mastery to enforce or evade it....
...Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian who has studied societies in transition, worries that Myanmar’s process could stall....
...Charles Rice sings well as Sid and there are amusing characterisations from Timothy Dawkins’s Superintendant Budd, Anna-Clare Monk’s unusually sexy Miss Wordsworth and Clarissa Meek as Albert’s mum (a delightful...
...Virginia Woolf’s Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House, by Caroline Zoob and Caroline Arber, Jacqui Small, RRP£30/$50 Although not a great gardener, Woolf loved her garden at Monk’s House in Sussex...
...’ * Iran to let in UN atomic inspectors * Markets: flat Myanmar frees dozens of political prisoners Myanmar released dozens of high-profile political prisoners on Friday – including student leaders, monks...
...A shaven-headed monk in red robes and with a twinkle in his eye approaches....
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...Facts are Subversive: Political Writing From a Decade Without a Name By Timothy Garton Ash Atlantic £25, 441 pages FT Bookshop price: £20 As Timothy Garton Ash remarks in Facts are Subversive, the last...
...Richard Monk, former police commissioner, UN Interim Mission in Kosovo....
...If there was a world literature and a unified European culture it is more likely to be found 500 years ago in the time of the cathedrals and troubadours and monks writing in Latin....
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