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...surreal Resurrection: the all-important Christian instant, but garbled, like a favorite song issuing from the bottom of a deep well. And yet according to the new book Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart Ehrman, it was Holy Writ for several centuries to some early Christian communities in the Middle East. The passage comes from something called the Gospel of Peter. You probably haven't heard of Peter because by A.D. 350 church fathers had tarred it as heresy, along with dozens of other early Scriptures with names like the Gospel...
From January 1999 to February 2000, Haddock clocked 10 miles a day from Pasadena, Calif., to Washington, D.C. She talked to everybody from truck drivers to Senators along the way, according to G. Bart Turner, a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student who said he walked with her for one day in Arizona. “She’s hard to keep up with!” Turner said walked with her for one day in Arizona. “She’s hard to keep up with!” Turner said of his experience...
...Force One), wants to take The Iliad out of schoolroom memories. His notion is to vacuum off the cobwebs and make it a vivid adventure that will appeal equally to adults who have a yawning familiarity with the story and to children for whom Homer is only Bart's bald, dundering...
...Bart suggests another factor may be that right now the more influential decision makers hold less than enlightened views on diversity. Bethann Hardisonwho was a model and design assistant in the 1970s and in the '90s ran her own modeling agency, which launched the careers of many black modelspoints out that over the past decade, virtually every design house has been bought by a conglomerate, which she believes has stifled creativity and imagination...
This is why Liya's Estee Lauder contract was such a big deal and one cannily planned by her agency. "We really pushed her as a beautiful woman, not a beautiful black woman," says Bart. Meanwhile, Estee Lauder president Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne had been looking for a way to update and broaden the brand's appeal, concerned that its image had become fusty and middle-aged. "The choice of Liya herself was first linked to her style and personality," he says. "But she also makes the image of the brand hipper and more fashion forward. You can't have...