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...breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...view held by the slim minority of the students on campus. And it seems to emerge from their religious beliefs. These are the same people, who, a month ago, were crying bloody murder over the violent Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons. Muslims, they huffed, were imposing their backward dogmas on the liberal West. It turns out Harvard’s conservatives are just as imposing and just as medieval. The irony, as the writer Arundhati Roy once put it, is enough to make a skull smile...
Once called, a stage manager leads actors upstairs, walking backward, tour guide-style, and punctuating her spiel by deep gasps for breath. There is a quick sizing up as a director distributes parts, then the groups of two or three head down the hallways, past headless tailor dummies and tables covered with pairs of black shoes from former shows...
...latest novel, The Night Watch, is a departure from her first three: instead of her reader-tested Victorian settings, she's jumped to the 1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile, "as much as I've loved...
Snowboarding starts with the Flying Tomato. "Right now, he's up here," says U.S. half-pipe coach Bud Keene of White, hand raised high above his head. "Rarefied air." A prodigy, White would outrun the adults on Southern California's Big Bear Mountain--going backward. His consecutive 1080s (three complete rotations in the air, the toughest trick in the sport) secured his win last week. Afterward, White playfully set his sights on U.S. figure skater Sasha Cohen ("I hope she dates gold medalists") and talked of a rendezvous with the Summer Olympics if skateboarding, the other action sport in which...