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In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

The pair met in last Sunday's final in Almaty, with Medvedev prevailing.

But strange things can happen in a vacuum and right now the prevailing theme is caution.

The Big Bang theory remains the prevailing explanation, yet many questions persist -- especially about what might have occurred before that explosive beginning.

The prevailing view was that “to educate a girl was like washing coal; it made no sense.”