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Its emperors used silver from Persia, glass from Europe, precious stones from Central Asia, and gold implements from India.
In any case, one should not throw stones when one lives in a glass house.
(The Stones have already played in Shanghai, even though the Chinese authorities insisted on vetting their songs.)
Earlier this year, Daniel Schwammenthal, writing in The Wall Street Journal, explained why in the starkest possible terms: “Screaming ‘Sieg Heil’ and ‘Hitler, Hitler,’ a mostly Muslim mob threw bottles and stones at a small group of Jews peacefully demonstrating for Israel at this town’s central square last year.
It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products, and millions of women and men.
The alternative is to continue relying on what Deng Xiaoping, the father of China’s institutional breakthrough more than three decades ago, called “feeling the stones.”
Through experimentation, adaptation, and evolution – a process that has been described as “crossing the river by feeling the stones” – China has been able to evolve a higher-order, or fifth, supply chain in political decision-making.
One of his consorts memorably and colorfully stated, “If a strong man were to throw four stones – one north, one south, one east, one west – and a fifth stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold, it would not equal the value of the Kohinoor.”
Given France’s role as one of the EU’s critical foundation stones (along with Germany), the election of Le Pen would most likely mean the end of the EU itself.
The stepping stones from military protectorate to political integration have to be thought out - and then spelled out.
Two better-known memorials in Moscow and St. Petersburg consist of granite stones taken from Solovki.
The Inevitable IntifadaPARIS – After the stones of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, came the human bombs of the second one.
Eggs contaminated that year with melamine caused kidney stones and renal failure in children.
There are times when muddling through – or, in the Chinese version, crossing the river by feeling the stones – is the right governing strategy, and there are times when a bold resetting of values and direction is required.
Feeling the stones may seem like the safest option for China’s next president, Xi Jinping, and China’s other new leaders; in fact, it is the most dangerous.
In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are “feeling for the stones while crossing the river.”
When the Stones themselves finally performed in China, in 2003, they agreed to cut some of their racier numbers from the program, because, as their local promoter put it, “They know there are differences between Chinese and Western cultures.
China no longer needed the Stones, either.
The key has been its unique strategy of “crossing the river by feeling the stones,” whereby it has gradually tested, implemented, and adjusted reforms and growth-enhancing policies.
In other words, there are more visitors interested in seeing the stones than in meeting the living stones.
Science and Africa's SalvationAfrica is a rich continent -- rich in bio-diversity, rich in mineral resources, rich in precious stones.
Every day, thousands of Bosnian Serbs living in the area walk or drive by the crumbling homes of the cleansed Muslims, the vast field of white Islamic grave stones, and the rape house, each one boldly reminding them of the undeniable.
As noted by former Saudi oil minister Sheik Yamani, sooner or later the age of oil will end, but not because of a lack of oil; much as the Stone Age did not end because of the lack of stones.
And, as Deng Xiaoping famously noted of China’s reforms in the 1980’s, “We are feeling our way across the river over the stones.”
People who live in glass houses should not throw even rhetorical stones.
Groups of angry marauding young men armed with stones and slingshots ran amok, setting up roadblocks and torching buildings.
Most Indian politicians wear rings with stones tailored to specific planetary conjunctions that are providential for them, or designed to ward off malefic influences from planets unfavorably situated on their birth charts.
Green Energy and Clean PoliticsNEW YORK – There are few areas of public discourse where the old adage, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” is more applicable than climate change.
The lawyers marched, sang, danced, and exchanged their briefcases for signs and, occasionally, eggs and stones.
From Oil to InformationSheikh Yamani, Saudi Arabia’s former oil minister and a founding architect of OPEC, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.”
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