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...People of the Book," who worship the same God (29: 46). In words quoted by Muhammad in one of his last public sermons, God tells all human beings, "O people! We have formed you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another" (49: 13)--not to conquer, convert, subjugate, revile or slaughter but to reach out toward others with intelligence and understanding...
...sure) eagerly anticipate the release of the King’s forthcoming album as they would the birth of their own child. But the support of those die-hard fans is assured. It is the imaginations and hearts (and pocketbooks) of the new generation that Jackson needs to conquer. The dilemma lies in assuring the world that Michael Jackson is still as relevant today as he was 20 years...
Richard Ellman, a biographer of James Joyce, once wrote of the enigmatic Irishman, “He does not wish to conquer us, but have us conquer him. There are, in other words, no invitations, but the door is ajar.” Indeed, upon taking a seat for Boston’s Huntington Theatre’s production of James Joyce’s The Dead, one feels as though one has just stepped through an open door into a world where entire families really do assemble for the holidays, really do sing and really do celebrate the dead...
...Strokes, with members all between ages 20 and 22, hopes to conquer its homeland. The band just released its first full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention...
...like to believe that advertising does things to us, that some impersonal, omnipotent force--"the market," "big business"--divides us to conquer, slicing us into targeted subsets. But if we're to be honest, we did much of this job ourselves. We divided, we conquered. Who, after all, are the faceless Madison Avenue suits stealing our music for ads? They're us. The battle of high school is over, and we won. The rest of the world now has to watch our videos, even if they're 30 seconds long and end with blurbs about 2.9% APR financing. Should...