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...favorite sport right now is demonizing Lula - and his platform is, indeed, full of expensive, perhaps fiscally risky social programs - he insists that he's not out to wipe away the free-market reforms and fiscal discipline that won Brazil's current president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, so much international acclaim...
...fact, excluding God, Abraham is the only biblical figure who enjoys the unanimous acclaim of all three faiths, the only one (as the song in the cab suggested) referred to by all three as Father. In theory, this remarkable consensus should make him an interfaith superstar, a special resource in these times of anger and mistrust. And since last September, interfaith activists have been scheduling Abraham lectures, Abraham speeches and even "Abraham salons" around the country and overseas. A new book called Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (William Morrow) by Bruce Feiler, author of the best...
...a.k.a. DJ /rupture, “so I’m incredibly picky about buying records.” Thanks to the Internet, though, /rupture has quickly become a household name among fans of bleeding-edge dance music. His bootleg mix album Gold Teeth Thief, which met universal acclaim last year in staple publications such as The Wire and Vibe, has been downloaded by thousands from /rupture’s Soot Records website (www.negrophonic.com). Some consider it one of the best DJ mix albums ever made...
...Chen, the first member of his country's vaunted fifth generation of moviemakers to receive international acclaim, made his reputation with sumptuously detailed stories of stern teachers and yearning students. His latest work, Together, is another fable of pedagogy, but with a much lighter touch?there cannot have been a more charming, disarming movie in Toronto. A 13-year-old violin prodigy arrives in Beijing with his father, who is determined the boy will have the very best teacher?the one, that is, with the clout to make his son famous. This scenario risks stumbling into villainizing or bathos...
...Whoever is appointed must be a known quantity,” Buell said. “It was important to us that her work had received a high level of acclaim and achievement from the outside world...