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After years of clicking a link on the Lowell House website to hear their Russian bells clang, a delegation of monks from Moscow rang the bells in person for the first time this weekend...
...thousand inmates whoop and whistle ... The prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors. This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop albums of the year. Country singer Cash ... is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. 'We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dungeon,' he says, 'and they're not ashamed to respond' ... Cash ... sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck ... The Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years...
...Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury; the whispered commands and concerns of her keepers clang like a judge's death sentence. Ghosh may be a little in love with the swank trappings of this gilded cage, and his cry of feminist anguish is ultimately muted...
...Howard Gardner's "theory of multiple intelligence," incorporates various learning methods through different media. The Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Ariz., used this approach to teach about Jonah last month. One group of students found the relevant Bible verses on the Internet. A second group, using "bang and clang instruments," dramatized the storm that nearly drowned the prophet. And the third made and ate submarine sandwiches in a joking response to the question "What do you think Jonah ate inside the whale...
...confront such an explosive issue. The papacy hates to bend to outside pressure. St. Paul, Minn., attorney Jeff Anderson, who has been suing the church regularly for abuse victims, says, "They're not going to change until a bishop goes to jail and every bishop hears the door clang behind him and that sound resonates to the Vatican...