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...Over eight years on her nightly broadcasts, Xue virtually became the Oprah Winfrey of Nanjing, feeling the pain of female listeners while taking their calls and reading their letters on the air. While her own somewhat privileged background was hardly as harrowing, Xue still struggled with tough issues?facing early placement in a "black school" for outsiders, dealing with pent-up feelings towards her displaced parents, and coping with sexual ignorance that led her to believe she could get pregnant from holding hands with a man. In The Good Women of China she dovetails her personal life story with those...
...juxtapositions that life creates. So it may be that he would have savored the fact that Madonna set translations of his 13th century verses praising Allah to music on Deepak Chopra's 1998 CD, A Gift of Love; that Donna Karan has used recitations of his poetry as a background to her fashion shows; that Oliver Stone wants to make a film of his life; and that even though he hailed from Balkh, a town near Mazar-i-Sharif situated in what is today Afghanistan, his verse has only become more popular with American readers since September last year, when...
During his last convalescence, Loeb asked Chittick whether the pastor thought that people disdained him because of his Jewish background...
...Having recently left Doctors Without Borders, I was looking to reconnect with my academic background and spend a bit of time reflecting on my humanitarian experience,” he said...
...threat of Nazi oppression haunted him throughout his life. Loeb’s discomfort with his Jewish background remained hidden as he explored new faiths as an adult, his friend the Rev. Thomas B. Chittick said at the memorial...