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...trip to Turkey, his first to a predominantly Muslim country, Pope Benedict XVI raised a ruckus with a provocative lecture on the relationship between faith, reason and violence on a visit to Regensburg University, where he once taught theology. As a good professor might, he quoted a 14th [an error occurred while processing this directive] century Byzantine Emperor. But this Emperor was making a furious criticism of Islam: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached...
...British social fruit cake. I did, it's true. But, I plead, I'd much rather sound like the other 98% of the country. As a preliminary exercise, he has me read Christina Rossetti's poem Remember. His verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want to sound privileged? For starters, I'm not. I'm just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live...
Earlier this year, a group of Czech advertising execs stumbled upon the Lidice Memorial, on the site of a gruesome WWII war crime. In 1942, the Nazis murdered 340 innocent Lidice residents and razed [an error occurred while processing this directive] their village in retaliation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi. Noticing that the memorial, erected in 1962, was deserted, the advertising experts offered free publicity. A few months later, they returned with a fake online game, Total Burn-Out of Lidice (totalburnout.cz/eng), which first instructs players to earn points by killing Czechs and burning houses...
...mixture of relief and surprise will accompany your arrival at Hong Kong's Restaurant 131, tel: (852) 2791 2684. Relief because finding it [an error occurred while processing this directive] involves reaching a remote village that even locals won't have heard of. Surprise because what awaits you when you finally get there is a dream of southern France, not a slice of southern China. Complete with manicured lawns, shuttered windows, carriage lamps and oil paintings, the reservation-only Restaurant 131 has become one of Hong Kong's most sought-after dinner venues. Actor Jackie Chan has been known...
...calendar of anniversaries, somewhere between Christmas (an annual) and Halley's comet (a demisesquicentennial), there is the biennial. Held in about 60 cities throughout the world, the art biennial (or biennale, to give it the oft-preferred Italian name) affords local and invited international artists a chance to [an error occurred while processing this directive] meet and show off their creations, and provides art lovers with an opportunity to see lots of new work by undiscovered talent. Since about 85% of biennials are government-initiated, there's often a strong community aspect to these events. Instead of disappearing after...