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...himself provoked laughter when his accompanying singer, Sougata Banerjee, was unable to follow Jasraj’s rapid scalar flight between melodious high notes and the lowest notes of his three and a half octave range. Singing mostly in Hindi, Jasraj’s performance may have seemed completely alien to those unfamiliar with South Asian culture. And yet, while the vocals were indecipherable at times, the emotion was palpable, immersing the listener completely. Commencing slowly, with soft vocals and a steady tabla beat—a small pair of drums played expertly by Anuradha Pal—the music...
...traditional Aussie values. The cultural warriors are fighting over the correct way to classify the feral Irwin. But during these days of brand marketing, what is the harm if people think Australians are excitable, love the outdoors and are high on life? Or that Australia is all frontier, with alien wildlife, dusty roads and a torrid climate? Why not let people hold those exotic thoughts, even if the reality is more mundane? If foreigners visit, or come to know their own Australian one day, they'll soon learn enough to think of us in the round...
...writing, of course, about Suri Cruise. (I'm told the newscast was also the debut of some lady from the Today show.) Since Suri's birth in April, she had not been seen, spurring a flood of rumors. Was she a hoax? Sick? An alien? Then the House of Cronkite broke its big scoop by flashing the exclusive Vanity Fair photos, with the adorable, ebony-maned head of what even die-hard Internet rumormongers had to concede was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' actual, intact, human baby...
...theology behind this preacherly rhetoric will never be acceptable to Warren or Sider or Witherington. But the man they all follow said, "By their fruits you will know them," and for some, Corinthian Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell...
...collective national egos of China and South Korea. Many scholars have blamed the East’s Confucian philosophical grounding, with proverbs such as “Scholars are respected above all,” for its societies’ distorted perception of scientists. Such a maxim is alien to the Western tradition, but the cartoonish quality that our society imposes on scientists is much the same, just in a different direction.No scientist is any more worthy of worship than he is of reviling. Scientists are humans, above all—humans with an abiding faith that truth...