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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...life? I definitely had a little bit of that when I can back from one of the Esperanto conferences. I had gotten very used to these little set phrases like jes, the Esperanto word for "yes." I would be ordering a sandwich at the counter, and the cashier would ask, "Do you want a bag for that?" I'd say, "Jes," with this weird pronunciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Like a lot of architects, Piano grimaces when people ask him about his style. "I hate the idea," he says. "It's a dangerous thing, a rubber stamp you put on the world." What he believes in, he says, "is the value of transparency and light. This is not a style. This is just an attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Art Institute Expands, with Elegance | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...decades now, fans of American musical theater have been fretting about the death of the genre. As globo-spectacles like Mamma Mia! and Beauty and the Beast crowd out daring new artworks, "where," ask these anxious theatergoers, "are the young Sondheims?" There won't be any. Not because high-brow musical theater is dead, but because the old Sondheim keeps on being new. Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, 79, continues to dominate the genre he has constantly reinvented, first with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome 
 Robbins on West Side Story in 1957, Company (1970), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Past Master: Stephen Sondheim | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Next Questions Ask Jim Cramer your questions for an upcoming interview at time.com/10questions

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for J.J. Abrams | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...agenda of everyone else in the world," quips Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a professor of Jewish studies at Bard College with whom the Pope has a fruitful scholarly relationship. One could justifiably wonder why, on an issue like the Latin Mass or SSPX, a busy Pope should constantly have to ask himself whether it's good for the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pope Benedict on the Question of Judaism | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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