Miscellaneous: From Asia Times, Spengler on the biblical world of Luis Bunuel. Stop all those clocks: We've got better at telling time, but now it's a private affair. A review of Them and Us: The American Invasion of British High Society by Charles Jennings. Furusiyya, and the origins of a knightly code: Horses play an important cultural role in Arab societies, but it is their past links to military magnificence that are stressed in a current exhibition. Things to Do Before This Article is Finished: Jay Gatsby had one. So does Morgan Freeman. What's on your life list? The age of steampunk: Nostalgia meets the future, joined carefully with brass screws. This time it's personal: A few years ago, board games seemed on the verge of dying out, banished to the attic by the all-powerful computer. But a hardy band of
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