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...Askar Enazy, a professor of international law in Riyadh and an outspoken critic of the regime, complains that the clerics "are allowed to run rampant. The al-Saud believe if they oppose them, it will undermine their own legitimacy as rulers. They had the opportunity to crush them many times before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet...
Boston Globe art critic Christine Temin suggested in a column this week that the abandonment of the plan, combined with the recently announced departure of University Art Museums Director James Cuno, might indicate that University President Lawrence H. Summers is not as willing as his predecessor to go to the plate for art at Harvard...
...friend and Princeton classmate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, by more than thirty years), he tried his hand at a wide variety of literary genres: from poetry and drama to fiction, journalism, history and polemics, as well as a voluminous (and decidedly indiscreet) journal. Primarily, sometimes exclusively, known as a literary critic (a fact that never failed to annoy him), he also found time to write an average of more than two-and-a-half letters per day for every day of his life - an astounding 70,000 in all. Although two previous collections of his correspondence have been published, the vast...
...those who travel just to eat, TIME talked with all five about the importance of tradition, their own culinary philosophies and the challenge of retaining the precious - and lucrative - third star. New Takes On Tradition one common complaint is that the Guide favors traditional French cuisine. "Chauvinistic," says food critic Egon Ronay. "It has always been like that." At first glance, the 2002 list suggests that little has changed. More than half of Europe's three-star restaurants are in France; of those that aren't, many serve French or French- inspired cuisine. In this year's class, only Berasategui...
...producer Charles Granata is a first-rate Sinatra scholar, with a scholar's interest in the details. Same for the exceptionally knowledgeable critic Will Friedwald, who contributes an essay. But having Granata and Friedwald expend their energies on this material is like having Stephen Hawking explain why the little hand counts the hours and the big hand counts the minutes. For the rest of us, it's just a matter of being suckered. --By Daniel Okrent