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Choir members say the sacred repertoire draws them to the church, rather than the chance to attend many, many services. Jewish choir member Ted Folkman, a third-year student at the law school, says he joined in order to sing works from the Christian canon...
...films of old. So here's my hypothesis. Just think of the Disney films that everyone likes the best - with some variation, you'll probably come up with Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, maybe The Rescuers, as your basic canon of Disney masterpieces (though I do find it strange that Disney labels every movie it releases on video, a "Disney Masterpiece" - doesn't that dilute the force of the term? Why is The Fox and the Hound a Disney Masterpiece? Whatever.) So, looking at those, you'll realize a common feature...
...ticket, it'll be the place to be. He'll be screening Small Time Crooks and you can ask him questions afterwards. If you're a Woody fan, you'll probably adore Small Time Crooks - it's 100%, unabashedly indulgent Woody Allen. If you're new to the Allen canon, Small Time Crooks is actually a good place to start. From the first frame you'll realize how much you've been missing - and how banal every other type of comedy seems in comparison...
MicroStrategy's reversal stems from a practice endemic in dotcom-land--overstating revenues. In the Internet twilight zone, where profits rarely exist, evaluating complex revenue streams can turn more on esoteric judgments than on accounting canon. The right outcome can add billions to a company's stock-market value. "It's a dangerous and uncertain game," says Howard Schilit, president of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis, a forensic accounting firm that issued two early warnings on MicroStrategy. "You know your stock could be dead meat if results are a couple of cents short, so you may sit down...
Heaney's Beowulf (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 219 pages; $25) has now been published in the U.S., giving American readers the chance to take the measure of this Harry Potter slayer, the deadest white European male in the politically incorrect literary canon. Judging by the electronic-sales ratings updated constantly by Amazon.com Beowulf is becoming boffo on this side of the Atlantic as well...