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...muscles of the body," he whispers cryptically about the secret of his technique. Sandor, who draws on a repertoire of works that numbers more than a thousand, is known around the world for his wizardry at the keyboard. Last year he played to packed houses at Cairo's Manasterly Palace, Seoul's Arts Center and London's Barbican Hall, to name a few. This week he's on his way to Rome's Teatro Ghione, and from there to Singapore's Symphony Hall for recitals. His rigorous performance schedule has forced him to curtail some of his old hobbies, such...
...MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with three U.S. envoys in Jerusalem in a flurry of diplomatic activity meant to promote his proposal for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank . Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a trip to Cairo , secured assurances that Egypt would secure its border with Gaza if Israel pulled out. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gave guarded support to the plan, on the condition that it be carried out within the framework of the U.S.-sponsored road map to peace. A first meeting between Sharon and Palestinian...
...Ensler criss-crosses the globe looking for Vagina Warriors. “As I’ve been traveling around the world, I’ve run into a lot of violence against women and suffering, whether it’s squatters in Cairo who are being beaten or women in Beverly Hills who are abused,” she says...
...Weinfeld, who attended a Zionist high school in Montreal, is moderating the relaunched dialogue series with Nayla R. Hamdi ’05, an economics and psychology concentrator in Lowell House. She grew up in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland, transferring to Harvard from the American University in Cairo at the beginning of her sophomore year, and says she wants to better understand pro-Israel positions after being steeped in the opposing viewpoint throughout her childhood...
...wave of democracy would sweep away the mullahs in Tehran and the neo-Stalinists in Damascus and the deranged dictator in Tripoli who swears he holds no power and is simply a guy in a tent, it would also almost certainly sweep away America's allies in Cairo, Amman and Riyadh. And in both sets of cases, their replacements may not be the kind of folks with whom President Bush feels comfortable...