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...final attempt to conquer the Other brings me to Harvard Hillel. I have always been fascinated by Jewish culture. Many of my friends are Jewish, and most of those who aren't can do pretty funny imitations. I head over to Hillel for dinner to learn more about life and culture among the displaced tribes of Israel. Fortunately, I run into my old friend Dan, who is more than willing to answer my questions...
Dance: Mikhail Baryshnikov leaves ballet behind to conquer the modern world with his White Oak ensemble...
...Adolf Hitler and, by implication, condoned the evils done to the Jewish people. Yet this is simply wrong. As Minister Farrakhan has noted on many occasions, his statement that Hitler was "wickedly great" -- like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and Stalin -- meant that Hitler was famous for his pernicious ability to conquer, destroy and dominate others. Furthermore, Hitler hated black people with great passion. And given Minister Farrakhan's devotion to the cause of black freedom, he would not claim that Hitler was morally great. Nevertheless, the mainstream press portrayed Minister Farrakhan as a Nazi -- that is, a devil in our midst...
...runs wild and plays out every dreamer's scenarios of fear fulfillment. But in his 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney had an even spookier idea: that sleep is when the sentry of common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing...
DIPLOMACY: New Worlds to Conquer...