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...Reception” was reminiscent of an Oscar Wilde play, or perhaps George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” which played earlier this year in the Adams Pool House Theater. It was a similar European-style house party, albeit with far more action and humor and none of the civility of “Heartbreak House.” And whereas Shaw’s play was characterized by languor, this production could be described in three words: energy, energy, energy...
...consistent in rejecting the charge that he was an atheist. "There are people who say there is no God," he told a friend. "But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." And unlike Sigmund Freud or Bertrand Russell or George Bernard Shaw, Einstein never felt the urge to denigrate those who believed in God; instead, he tended to denigrate atheists. "What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos," he explained...
...There have been missteps. Giuliani's push to have former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik of Giuliani Partners nominated for Secretary of Homeland Security was a fiasco. Investigators quickly turned up some undisclosed financial favors done for Kerik by a company seeking municipal contracts. But in general, business and politics have meshed so smoothly inside Rudy Inc. that at times you can't tell them apart...
...floor. The band puts its own kosher spin on rock-and-roll classics, and normally caters to the Jewish party-animal crowd with songs like “I Can’t Get No Hamantashen.” “Purim is joyous,” says Bernard Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel. “This looks like the best turnout we’ve had in recent years.” There’s only one downside: You’ll have a head-pounding hamantashen hangover in the morning...
...Patel, the fact that France's North African citizens don't feel at home is simply a shame. To others, it's much more dangerous than that. Three years ago, Princeton University Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis said that, thanks to immigration and Europe's low birthrate, Western Europe will have Muslim majorities by the end of the century: "Europe will be part of the Arab West, the Maghreb." He's not alone. The fear of a Eurabia (capital: Londonistan) populated by poor, angry, fervent Muslims is gaining ground. Islamists are "determined to subdue and colonize Europe," claims American essayist...