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Its centerpiece is a gilded seated wooden statue of the Kannon Bodhisattva, 3.3 m (11 ft) high, with 11 faces on the crown of its head and 40 arms (extravagantly known as “a thousand arms”) wielding bells, wheels, and lotus flowers.
That heightened worry would become even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if the United States were hit, unprepared, by terrorists wielding either weapons of mass destruction or potent cyberweapons.
The Celts, those ancient invaders from the continent who managed to survive the Roman occupation and resist the Latin tongue, contributed one word-- whiskey -- having legal significance but were driven, along with their reverse-order speech, into the nooks and corners of the British Isles and France by the fierce Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, wielding their broadswords and brutish monosyllables.
At the start of the new millennium, Edinburgh is once again wielding true political power on behalf of its fellow countrymen: The “Scotland Act,” passed in November 1998, transferred control of domestic policy from London back to the Scots for the first time since 1707.
But the NYT version seems to stress instead Serbian intransigence, reporting that "Holbrooke acknowledged he was 'skeptical' of a pledge made at the meeting that Karadzic would be stopped from wielding power behind the scenes in the Serb-held part of Bosnia" and saying the negotiations ended "without any major breakthrough."
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