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...death squads responsible for many of the worst recent atrocities, no Sunni name incites more bile than Omar. (The original Omar was Islam's second Caliph and is reviled by Shi'ites who believe he worked against the interests of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.) More than a dozen Omars interviewed by TIME say that when they produce identification cards bearing their name, they regularly endure harassment by Shi'ite policemen and government officials. Others have met a more gruesome fate. In a single incident last earlier this year, the bodies of 14 Omars were found...
Ever looked out the window on a cold, wet day and dreamed of relocating to a gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife, Rachana, and young daughter, Ariane, from London to Morocco, which he knew from childhood vacations. Think you've heard this all before, perhaps in Peter Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and its sequels, or Frances Mayes' tales of Tuscan transplantation...
...film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That afternoon she is lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced a script for Ann Miller garbage. Cohn agrees, but demands, "What . . . does it matter to her? She's just a dumb broad with large thighs." Introduced to Kim Stanley, who was to be nominated for an Academy Award, Cohn asks...
...thiop, by the way, is a mysterious character who guides a faction set against the Caliph Ali into the palace in secrecy. One wishes that Steve Schaefer ’05 had played the Æthiop with more exaggeration—that he had been more hunchbacked, more creepy, more disturbing. Given The Æthiop’s ridiculous story line and risible characters, the play can only be pulled off if there’s some great character acting. If the actors don’t ham it up, it can—and, in this production...
...these God-obsessed terrorists, the imperative to free Iraq is profound. The country is in the heartland of Dar al-Islam, the true realm of the faith, not some backwater like Afghanistan. For 500 years, Baghdad was home to the Caliph, the leader of all Muslims, the equivalent of both Pope and King. For them, U.S. occupation of this land is an existential affront. Now they must prove their core claim that they, not the corrupt potentates of the region, are the true defenders of the faith. That requires the radicals to bloody the Americans--the more savagely, the better...