Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Museums are often associated with bygone periods and remote artifacts--Renaissance paintings, Egyptian sarcophagi, the fossilized bones of velociraptors. Because the Rock Hall (as Clevelanders call it) focuses on music that has always been identified with rebellious youth culture, its exhibits seem forever fresh, bursting with the antiestablishment adolescent energy of the past five decades. Among the first things a visitor walking into the museum sees are huge black-and-white photos of antirock protests through the years, from crowds burning Beatles records to police protesting rapper Ice-T's lyrics. Barrie is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression...
...that was the prelude to Monday, a day of Egyptian heat and heavy humidity, with temperatures reaching 100 degrees. The weather made a perfect start for Hell Week, the days of forced marching, push-ups and verbal badgering that introduces new cadets to their life as "knobs"-campus slang for the shave-headed plebes. Faulkner had already created resentment by resisting the requirement to shave her head. The school ultimately allowed an off-the-shoulder cut, similar to the regulation accepted for women at the service academies. But in the end, that accommodation was far from what she needed...
...public acknowledgment by a retired Israeli general that, as a captain, he helped massacre 49 Egyptian POWs during the 1956 war in the Sinai stirred other veterans to speak out about similar atrocities in the war of 1967. The unit allegedly involved in the 1956 incident was commanded by right-wing politician Rafael Eitan, who intends to run for Prime Minister in 1996. At Egypt's request, the Israeli government ordered an investigation...
...Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has reportedly offeredSaddam Husseinpolitical asylum in the hope that the rogue regime in Baghdad might be replaced. An advance copy of Saturday's Al-Hayat, a London-based Arab newspaper, obtained by the Associated Press quotes Mubarak explaining his offer as "a solution to the problem of the Iraqi people and to prevent a bloodbath in Iraq."World editor James Collinssays the plan probably doesn't mean Saddam will leave Iraq anytime soon. "Given current circumstances, it's not a highly meaningful offer.The cracks in the Baghdad regimeare widening, but Saddam isn't that desperate...
...Matteo is ill, she returns to India and decides to investigate the past life of the Mother. "I will make a connection between what you believe and what I know," she tells her husband. Her research turns up an engaging tale of the feisty young girl, half-French, half-Egyptian, who eventually became the Mother. But this half of Journey to Ithaca does not mesh convincingly with the saga of Sophie and Matteo; it seems less a tale within a tale than a totally discrete narrative. Desai beautifully describes the Indian landscapes, but the people who move through them, especially...