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...secretaries give their bosses a fine comeuppance, and the all-white cast of the original (which in the 1967 movie version managed to bleach even the streets of Manhattan) has been racially integrated. A black woman (Lillias White as Miss Jones, the boss's formidable secretary) broadens the "brotherhood" in the last big song, The Brotherhood of Man, turning it into a rousing gospel number. These small touches enhance the show's charm. If blacks were kept out of corporate boardrooms in 1961, such injustices can now be symbolically amended; this nostalgic production recalls a fairer era than...
There is nothing in this movie to enjoy, least of all its art. And yet, like Beth, its defiant spirit and hope are enough to bring it prosperity. Hope here means hoping this actually intends its documentary brotherhood and only accidentally exploits a fetish for violence on and off the screen...
...Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel and the occupied territories. Deported...
...Congo, now Zaire, he went to Brussels in the 1970s for medical training, then moved around the world studying acupuncture and homeopathy, a system of treatment based on minimum doses of medication. Along the way he found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called the Reformed Order of the Temple that mixed Roman Catholicism, yoga, alchemy and anticommunism under the leadership of an ex-Gestapo officer named Julien Origas. After Origas died in 1981, Jouret became leader...
...those not sufficiently enthused, there's still that old, but not discredited, Olympic ideal: international brotherhood. Between equations, reports Weinstein, the Americans got to know the Croatian squad, who brought along a guitar. Soon, the new friends were harmonizing to old Beatles tunes. Anyone know the words to When I'm (Positive Integer...