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...about imposing a canon, but rather about [allowing] students to engage in contemporary issues on the basis of firsthand knowledge,” he said...
...Asian Americans with mixed feelings about the 1958 show's cliched and old-fashioned portrayal of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. But he's the one who decided to do something about it. Working with seasoned Broadway pros and watched over by the guardians of the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon, he totally rewrote the musical's book. Characters were changed, songs were rearranged (one, The Other Generation, was dropped), and more historical context was added. "It was an opportunity," says Hwang, "to do my own story about Chinese immigration and Americanization as seen through the eyes of Asians...
...back in the U.S., reformers seemed to have little patience for appeals to Canon law. Says Mike Emerton of Voice of the Faithful, a group that grew out of dismay over the church's mishandling of Boston abusers: "[The Vatican] shows they have no understanding of the depth of this problem." --By John Cloud. Reported by Jeff Israely/Rome and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...government to announce its own inquiry last week, a move that would have been unthinkable a decade ago but in the current climate has been popular. Justice Minister Michael McDowell declared he was "not afraid of the bang of a crosier," and said the church's internal canon law, which it has sometimes relied upon to justify keeping mum about predator priests, deserved as much deference as the rules of a golf club. Connell is unlikely to resign. His friends say he may be old school, but feels every error is being transmogrified into a cover-up, and looks forward...
...lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman; an exotic woman bound to an unscrupulous lover; and an American who could be naive...