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...Gates has been celebrated as a philanthropist. Isn't it time to call him a hero too? Claes Molin Gothenburg, Sweden Celebrating Arab Scholars Re Your interesting article "Ahead Of Their Time," on the Paris exhibition of Arab cultural breakthroughs [Nov. 21]: The gold astrolabe you pictured does not bear Arabic script but is in Hebrew. Could you explain why? Michaela Mills Jerusalem Fourteenth century Spain was populated by Muslims, Christians and Jews, who exchanged cultural and scientific knowledge. The astrolabe was an Arab invention, but the devices are inscribed in many different languages - Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew - depending...
...impressed; if you're not talking to him at a very high level about science or business, you're wasting his time, and he lets you know it. (In our first interview, he didn't look at me for 15 minutes. Melinda fielded the soft questions he couldn't bear to handle, as she often does.) But Bono talks about global problems on a very high level, and one gets the sense their friendship is one of the great surprises of Bill's life. "It's not about making himself look good," Bill says. "He really reads this stuff...
...quiet humanity. At the end of a general audience in August, the Pope had set aside time for a long line of the ill and elderly to personally greet him. A girl, perhaps 9 or 10 years old, approached, holding her mother's hand and gripping a teddy bear. Her hair was cut short and her face was puffy from medication. The Pope looked straight in the little girl's eager eyes, and brushed his hand with a blessing across her forehead. And then, without missing a beat, he reached over and blessed the teddy bear in the same...
...Grizzly Man Perhaps the year's oddest, and therefore most arresting, film, it is the story of a post sixties hippy names Timothy Treadwell, who spent every summer of his life, for over a decade, living dangerously--in close proximity to the great Alaskan bear population, and was, with his girlfriend, eventually killed by one of them. Treadwell pretended to be studying them and preserving their habitat. But he anthropomorphized the creatures and, indeed, began to think that he was one of them. Director-writer-narrator Werner Herzog, a man whose great subjects have been extremists (see Aguirre, The Wrath...
...Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie explored the important -- if sometimes impossible -- process of reconciliation and justice in present-day Rwanda. I doubt I could bear watching this movie a second time, but I'm grateful to have seen it once...