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...Tripoli, his friendship with an Egyptian senior official in the Islam Brotherhood, a fundamentalist organization, came in handy. Kane's family had a "much beloved Irish setter dog," and when they were evacuated, entrusted the dog to the official. Kane says he left the safety of the base under the pretense of appraising the situation in the city. "I had another motive--I drove back...
...more minorities in lead roles on prime-time shows and lead positions behind the camera. Last year, the networks immediately remedied the situation, introducing several minority-cast family dramas, getting rid of the ubiquitous sassy Hispanic maid stereotypes in sitcoms and ushering in an era of universal brotherhood. At least, that happened in some parallel universe. On our planet, the networks did institute some behind-the-scenes hires and improved their casting record, at least vis-a-vis African Americans. There remain glaring disparities among other minority groups, but now that the media light's been off this issue...
Next time you find yourself duped by the forces of evil, rest assured that deliverance is nigh. If you simply believe in brotherhood and love, you will enter into a priestly order of divine beings by passing through a series of odd Masonic rituals that enable you to confound the conspirators aligned against you. And, if you play your cards right, you might even manage to fall passionately in love and pick up a nifty flute with animal-charming powers along...
...idealistic vision more powerful. This opera is, after all, a fairy tale—albeit a bizarre one full of Masonic rituals and Egyptian gods. And like all fairy tales, Die Zauberflöte seeks to teach us a moral. Its particular lesson—the transformative power of brotherhood and love—would lose much of its force if we forgot, even for a minute, that what we are watching is markedly not the world in which we live. Fortunately, the Met’s production didn’t allow this to happen. All the juvenile charm...
...April 3 has special significance for Hindus and Sikhs. Across the country Hindus host huge community feasts that feature singing and dancing. Crowds flock to temples and to holy rivers like the Ganges for ritual dips. The day is also the anniversary of the founding of the Sikh brotherhood and a time to celebrate the harvest with wild Bhangra dancing. To an ever-changing beat, the strenuous dance portrays life in the fields, moving from plowing to sowing to weeding to reaping. Catch the festivities in any Punjabi village...