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...disaffection of young European Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry...
...Schauer is currently completing a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago law school. Of the 65 previous Eastman fellows, 13 were Nobel Prize winners. Schauer will be the third lawyer to hold the post, along with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former HLS professor Felix Frankfurter in 1933-34, and Eugene Rostow, the former dean of Yale Law School, in 1970-72. The Eastman professorship was formed in 1929 in honor of George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company...
...Couple, the play's first revival in 40 years. Broderick and Lane, whose singularly fizzy chemistry made the musical The Producers a colossal hit in 2001, have been rehearsing nonstop for the past three weeks. Lane will play the slovenly Oscar Madison, Broderick the famously fastidious Felix Unger. The entire run is already sold out; the advance box office is $21.5 million, more than any other play in the history of Broadway...
...Nathan around son James Wilkie. "That's a huge part of life in the theater, the time after the show. They're both far more social than I am." Parker also maintains that The Odd Couple has reversed their real-life personas. "Matthew is far more like Oscar than Felix...
...sense in which The Odd Couple tells their story, the story of two men who make each other better. As Oscar, the horndog sportswriter with a beer gut and a backward baseball cap, Lane learns a little discipline--he literally cleans up his act. And when he stands over Felix, yelling at him, begging him to let himself go, to cut loose, that could just as easily be Lane pushing Broderick. Or to put it another way, just as the shyster Max gets Leo to say in The Producers, "There's a lot more to me than there...