Now one of the organisers of that show, Mary Ellen Miller, a professor at Yale, has co-produced a second exhibition, "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya", at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
"The least one can say is that they are ambiguous," says Maya Jribi, the PDP's co-leader, while deploring Nahda's tendency, as she puts it, to "use the mosque for sending its political message".One movement, calling itself the Modernist Democratic Pole, including the former communist party, Tajdid, is trying to band all secular groups together to ensure that Nahda is kept out of power.
But as Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group, notes, such spending is at most $30 billion a year, or 1% of total expenditures.
This has helped draw interest from some Democrats.A slightly different proposal by Martin Feldstein, a prominent Republican economist, and Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a think-tank, would cap the tax benefit of itemised deductions at 2% of income for all households.
As with the exhibition of 1986, this new show could coincide with a significant breakthrough in our understanding of this remarkable civilisation".Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya" is at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, until July 25th, and then at the Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, from September 4th to January 2nd 2005.
Over the same period, income distribution has become more equal in Brazil, Mexico and Chile.A different landscapeMargarita López Maya, a social scientist at the Central University of Venezuela, points to the Bolivarian revolution's success in bringing the poor into politics and giving them a sense of citizenship, partly through a network of neighbourhood councils.
Also, Martin Feldstein of Harvard University and Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget have suggested caps on the amount of deductions relative to a taxpayer's income.
Vases (on table, from left): Poole Pottery Maya Purse vase, £75; Maury clay vase, £20, and small Maury clay vase, £15.
It's that they so rarely celebrate authors themselves in the way that the Maya Angelou stamp splendidly does.
The lobby is decked out with a pick-n-mix selection of funky furniture and adorned with a big drippy mural by Maya Hayuk.
Al moved with Shelley to a different part of Leeds, but continued to subvert traditional models of family life by keeping an open house for various children (including Maya Wild) and lesbian lodgers.
