Experts argue over what constitutes the high point of India's jewelry making traditions, but there is broad agreement that the Mughal courts produced the most spectacular pieces in the mid 1600s.
Spread over a network of city-states and ruled by deified kings and queens, the Mayan courts produced sculpture of fabulous sophistication in jade, limestone, ceramic and stucco, including some of the most haunting portraits in the world.
A national study by the Urban Institute, a think-tank, found that drug courts produce $2.21 in benefits (reduced crime and costs of incarceration) for every $1 spent; expanding their reach to cover all arrestees would raise the level of benefits to $3.36.For this reason drug courts are winning plaudits across the political spectrum.
"The courts produce this stuff at taxpayer expense, it gets shipped to these foreign companies for free and then they charge us to read it," says Rosenthal, a Caltech-educated physicist who graduated from Harvard Law School.
The court produced no majority opinion and gave no reason for its action today, which apparently came on a 6-to-3 vote.
Instead, presented with one of the most momentous cases in its history, the court produced a crimped ruling that may one day serve as the defining legacy of the Rehnquist court.
December 1632 July 11 , 1688Lop Buri, Thailand Narai, (born December 1632 died July 11 , 1688 Lop Buri, Siam [now Thailand]) king of Siam (1656 88), who was best known for his efforts in foreign affairs and whose court produced the first "golden age" of Thai literature.
In 1589 the sophisticated Florentine court produced an intermezzo called Harmony of the Spheres, a spectacular type of masque that incorporated music; it was the immediate forerunner of opera.
All "classified" evidence, on the other hand, will either be withheld from the defendant entirely or, if used in court, produced only in a heavily "redacted" or censored form.
(Some 1,600 residents of a village that once provided porcelain to the imperial court produced them over the course of several years, as documented in a video that accompanies the piece).
After recent inquiries by The New York Times, the court produced a second transcript in which every word was exactly the same, except for the sentencing: it said three years rather than two.
