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...network's reputation for covering the Arab perspective have earned al-Jazeera millions of dedicated viewers in a region seething with anger at the Palestinian plight and what is perceived as American support of unchecked Israeli aggression. In recent weeks, the coverage has helped stoke the region into a fever pitch of outrage and impotent fury. At Cafe Shahine, in the working-class district of Imbaba, the afternoon transmission disrupts the patrons' domino games. "How can we take this--this relentless pounding of the weak by the mighty?" asks Abdel Qader Hassenein...
...been forums and dialogues between students of different ethnicities and races for years. The ethnic studies movement, one example of a cause that interests students of many different backgrounds, has gone through many incarnations without much success. But in recent months, discussion of minority matters has risen to a fever pitch because of the departure of West, a leading light of the Harvard Afro-American studies department that until recently was considered an uncrackable diamond...
...FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...anyone in the theater world knows, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is cursed. Legend has it that on the opening night back in 1606, the boy playing Lady Macbeth died of fever before the show could open. In 1672 for a production in Amsterdam, the actor playing Macbeth apparently used a dagger that accidentally didn’t retract and killed the actor portraying Duncan during a performance...
Using a “medical theme” that included nurse outfits and music like Madonna’s “Fever,” Bon Jovi’s “Bad Medicine,” and Pink’s “You Make Me Sick,” Harvard placed behind traditional powerhouses Towson University and UNC-Charlotte. UMass-Amherst, which entered the final round seeded third with Harvard, managed to squeak by with its final routine to garner a third place finish overall...