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Hailing from the Baroque era, this Antonio Cesti opera tells the tale of an Egyptian queen and her trials of loe. Director Sarah Meyers describes the "funny, light stories that make it accessible to modern audiences." Reduced significantly to a more condensed version, the opera features a "well-balanced production" of both Harvard students and students of the New England Conservatory...
Arafat spoke in a conference call with President Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Arafat's office said yesterday...
...hard to be superstitious when you spend your life excavating Egyptian tombs. But even Zahi Hawass, one of Egypt's leading archaeologists, was not prepared for the apparition that visited him one night last spring, shortly before he entered the tomb of Zed-Khonsu-efankh, the most powerful governor of the Bahariya Oasis during the 26th dynasty. In the dream, Hawass was trapped in a large room filled with dense smoke. He tried to call for help, but no one heard him. Suddenly, a man's face--looking for all the world like a carving from a sarcophagus--came swimming...
...leaving - Arafat returned to the talks but refused to sign an agreement without the promise of an international commission of inquiry into the current violence. That demand was rejected by the Israeli prime minister, who then abandoned the second leg of the talks to be held Thursday in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh...
...political survival when his parliament reconvenes, and being subjected to the ritual dressing down that Arafat requires as cover for signing a new deal may be more than the Israeli leader can afford. And he may have been doing Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak a favor - thousands of Egyptian university students calling for "Holy War" against Israel clashed with security forces Wednesday, and Barak's arrival in Egypt at this point may have stirred up domestic turmoil...