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...loyal--he has more than 400,000 books in print. But titles like Gangsta, Road Dawgz and his latest, Hood Rat, have captured an audience well outside St. Martin's usual purview. So instead of signings at Barnes & Noble, St. Martin's is planning giveaways and readings in barber shops and beauty salons. There will be ads on urban radio and an official Hood Rat mix tape...
...political economy.” He added that he is “excited about [the] broad global audience on topics of great import” that the column will afford him. He said that the column will begin later this month. The FT’s editor, Lionel Barber, told a fellow London-based daily, The Guardian, last week that Summers’ column “is certain to be widely read and highly provocative and I am very pleased to have him on board.” Summers, who will stay on as Harvard?...
...began a career as the public face of Byzantium in the West. ?He was notable for traveling the courts of Europe and arguing the case that Europe needs to come to the aid of the Greeks in the East, to revive, if you will, the crusading spirit," says Charles Barber, an art historian and expert in the Byzantine empire at the University of Notre Dame. "Manuel shows a real familiarity with Islamic texts and Islamic culture, but as seen through the lens of a people who are essentially facing annihilation.? Thus, says Barber, the ?dialog? between the emperor...
...That might explain an understandable apprehension about similar conversions on a mass scale, if the Ottomans took Constantinople. But if so, it turned out to be unwarranted. When the city finally fell, says Barber, the Muslims eliminated the political structure but kept the church up and running, using the Eastern Orthodox patriarch as spokesman for the Christian peoples within their own empire...
Playing a barber might seem a tame choice for JOHNNY DEPP. But not when it's Sweeney Todd. Depp and director Tim Burton--who previously teamed up on Edward Scissorhands and last year's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--are reuniting for a movie version of the Stephen Sondheim musical about the murderous London barber who shaves his clients a little too closely. Depp, who will do his own singing, popped by the Broadway revival earlier this year and chatted with Michael Cerveris, the Tony-nominated thesp who plays Sweeney. The part is grueling, Cerveris says, but "we know Johnny...