In the latest of dozens of deadly immolations to protest Chinese rule, a Tibetan women set herself ablaze and died on March 5 in Tibet’s Ngawa region, the International Campaign for Tibet said.

I find, too, that the chance for appreciation [of imaginative literature] is much increased by being the son of an appreciator, and that these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.

The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.

Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.