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...section about Hamlet’s stutter-like habits of repetition, punning, and word substitution, Shell makes the (perhaps unavoidable) play on Hamlet being a “little ham” akin to Porky...
...cello (played by Hanna Khoury and Kinan Abou-Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
...call the United Arab Emirates a country "tied to 9/11" by virtue of the fact that one of the hijackers was born there and others transited through it is akin to attaching the same label to Britain (where shoe-bomber Richard Reid was born) or Germany (where a number of the 9/11 conspirators were based for a time). Dubai's port has a reputation for being one of the best run in the Middle East, says Stephen Flynn, a maritime security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. And Dubai Ports World, which is a relatively new venture launched...
...ringbacks. Everyone from mobile-phone operators to supermarket chains like Tesco to coffee purveyors like Starbucks is offering online music services. In a recent report titled Digital Rocks!, Bryan, Garnier & Co. analyst Alexander Ivanovitch wrote: "We believe this amounts to a second digital revolution for the music industry, akin to the 1980s transition to CD." Such optimism was unthinkable just a few gloomy years ago, when it seemed like the music industry had fallen off a cliff. "It was a frustrating time," says John Kennedy, head of ifpi. "We knew it wasn't going to be just...
...history.” According to Engerman, black history is no longer divorced from American history in history textbooks. “The goal has really been accomplished,” Engerman said. “It is now more of an ethnic celebration”—akin to St. Patrick’s Day for Irish-Americans and Columbus Day for Italians, Engerman said. Another historian at the DuBois Institute, James C. McCann, noted that schoolchildren now know the names of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. “That’s real progress...