The sobbing all gets a bit much - and might not be what you expect from a "philosophical" play.
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Exhibition Review: Chola Bronzes at the Royal Academy, London
This is art at its peak!
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... and a special highlight: the worst book of the year.
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If the execution is not completed by the start of the Eid festival, most sources agree it could not be carried out during its course.
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While Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael lived in a neat, just-desserts world, Master Shardlake's is altogether messier -- morally and physically.
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This is politics as Machiavellian ping-pong played for laughs.
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"I was a woman, and this revolution's victory demanded my defeat."
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If you wanted to know about the Civil War and had only time or inclination to read one book, this should be it.
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Why might these societies, living in what we might think of as an idyllic world, have chosen to create such fearsome deities?
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