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July 7, 2015 edition

Authors, particularly in Indonesia, are often convinced they are important citizens of society-more important than their works. The 'literati syndrome' is often infectious.

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June 30, 2015 edition

It is not death that destroys a conqueror, but obesity. That is what happened to King William when he was 59.
On that early September morning in 1087, during a battle to take the city of Paris, the king was thrown from his horse. His bulging stomach hit the pommel of his saddle and he could not keep his balance. He tumbled forward and was killed.

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June 23, 2015 edition

A child did a drawing. He imagined a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant whole. In his picture, the elephant could not be seen. What was visible was the swollen stomach of the snake.

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June 16, 2015 edition

Engraved on a 15-meter-high stone pillar are 14 eternal edicts. Carved in the 2nd century BCE, the edicts were made by Piyadasi or Devanampiyadasi, the king who ruled the area that now forms most of India.
Almost all its lines are fascinating, but the most stirring is the seventh edict:

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June 9, 2015 edition

-For Haidar Bagir
Love: an explanation that has thrilled and confused for centuries; a word that easily becomes banal and yet can also make people ready to surrender themselves. We cannot define it. It is not part of what we know conceptually.

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June 2, 2015 edition

It was a ship's doctor who gave a name to Indonesia. In 1861, Adolf Bastian, from Bremen in Germany, was sailing in Southeast Asia. Later he wrote a few books. One of them became widely read: Indonesien oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipels, 1884-1894. And it was from this book that 'Indonesia' began to be widely used to name the archipelago.
Bastian was influential because he was not merely a ship's doctor. He was a graduate of law and biology, and he was interested in the science that in his day was called 'ethnology'; but he was also a doctor. The fact that he became a ship's doctor shows that he wanted to explore other parts of the world. In 1873, he helped establish the Museum fr Vlkerkunde in Berlin, with its huge collection of man-made artifacts from all corners of the globe.

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May 26, 2015 edition

Money can link all kinds of things, distant and close. It reminds me of the film The Cup.
In a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a novice monk called Orgyen is suffering from an addiction to something worldly: he is obsessed with football. The World Cup is on, and France and Brazil have made it to the final. Orgyen and his friend Lodo organize their friends to chip in to hire a television set and parabola from an Indian trader in the village opposite.

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