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...textured, Brazilian-flavored albums, with their smooth synthesized surfaces, appeal to listeners for whom jazz is normally a four-letter word. But Metheny has always made a point of playing and recording in a variety of other styles as well. His tastes are exceptionally wide-ranging--he's equally fond of Igor Stravinsky, avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman and the Beatles--and when he's not on the road with the Metheny Group, there's no telling what kind of music he'll be making on stage or in the studio...
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Politicians and academics are very fond of talking about fostering civil society to help create democracy and better societies; these churches have developed a vigorous and dynamic social network among their members despite the persecution of the government. Unlike political organizations that would surely be quickly and viciously squashed by the state, these churches present no clear threat to the government and could be the start of a much more vigorous civil society in China...
...iconic image of Einstein on our cover was taken in 1947 by the legendary photographer Philippe Halsman. Einstein was not fond of photographers (he called them Lichtaffen, or light monkeys), but he had a soft spot for Halsman. Einstein had personally included the photographer on a list of German artists and scientists getting emergency U.S. visas to evade Nazi capture. Halsman recalled that Einstein ruminated painfully in his study on the legacy of E=mc2: talk of atomic war, an arms race. "So you don't believe that there will ever be peace?" Halsman asked as he released the shutter...
...issue of marriage and royal heirs and the challenges raised by men who would steal her scepter. Marriage is what 16th century women were for, and Queens needed heirs. She engaged in the most manipulative, interminable courtships, driven not by love but by politics--though she was tirelessly fond of suitors. Leading a weak country in need of foreign alliances, she brilliantly played the diplomatic marriage game: at one time she kept a French royal dangling farcically for nearly 10 years. Always she concluded that the perils of matrimony exceeded the benefits. She courted English suitors too, for both pleasure...