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...will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale? We get the politicians we deserve, goes the saying. But do the gentle, life-revering Buddhists of Burma and Tibet deserve the thugs who control them? Peter Phillpotts, Matlock, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Rock 'n' Roll is the first stage work Stoppard has written explicitly about Czechoslovakia, where he was born in 1937 but which he left as a baby when his parents fled the Nazis, moving to Singapore and then India before landing in Bristol, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elitist, Moi? | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most of his spare time reading--most recently Janet Malcolm's biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. His chief recreational passion is trout fishing, which he does four or five times a year, usually in Hampshire, England, but with periodic ventures to more exotic climes like New Mexico and Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elitist, Moi? | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...professional training ground. Many current and past members of prominent American and international orchestras have played in the HRO, according to Yannatos.John D. Kapusta ’09, a trumpet player as well as a vocalist in the five-year joint degree program between Harvard and the New England Conservatory, is serving as assistant conductor this season. He is following in the footsteps of such heavyweights as Leon Botstein—now the music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and president of Bard College—and Alan T. Gilbert ’89, the music director-elect...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 200 | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...birth of deposit banking, of checking, and of modern credit practices." It certainly made them some of Europe's richest and most powerful financiers. The Templars have been described as taking crown jewels and indeed entire kingdoms as mortgage for loans, and they maintained major branches in France, Portugal, England, Aragon, Hungary and various Mid-Eastern capitals. The group controlled as many as 9,000 estates, and left behind hundreds of buildings great and small. (The London subway stop Temple is named after one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican and the Knights Templar | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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