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...what of the music? The first hour suggests an ambitious but conventional musical, with a rousing drinking song and some lovely Elvish ballads that, as one hobbit in the show says, are "like wine for the ears." But as the tale darkens and deepens, LOTR turns into musical drama, with songs replaced by underscoring of the battles. The last real song, and it's a beaut, comes at the end of Act II: Frodo and his friend Sam Gamgee sing in reminiscence of the Shire they love, "Now and for always...
Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of northern Iraq, is less than an hour's flight from Baghdad but almost a world away. While the insurgent-plagued airport road in Baghdad is known as the "Highway of Death," the road from the newly opened Erbil International Airport, plagued by nothing more dangerous than cyclists in spandex, wends through construction for a real estate development called "Dream City," a planned community of several hundred California-style detached single-family homes, a supermarket and an American school. Fueled by oil wealth from rich fields in the region, Kurdistan...
...chooses a scenic spot, opens his backpack and serves a hearty meal that he makes from scratch: "We had ham, melon, grilled peppers, cheese and tea prepared from herbs picked along the way," says Geneva-based writer Paul Sochaczewski. He and a friend went with Zuppiroli on a seven-hour hike to La Tournette, a 2,300-m peak above Annecy, admired "views to die for," and saw meadows of Alpine flora and a herd of wild goats along the way. What a rocky-mountain high. www.a-different-view.com
...people would attend the seminar. According to HIS Treasurer Saheer A. Rizvi ’08, although the class will be similar to a course, it will be less stressful. “There are no discussion sections, no tests; no time commitment apart from attending the one-hour session; it’s designed to be a relaxed way for students to learn more about Islam,” he wrote in an e-mail. Nguyen said that the seminars were not meant to replace a course, although he added that, coincidentally, there are few college courses being taught...
...Darfur region of Sudan. Many of Kristof’s columns on the crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour on Public Broadcasting Service and ten-time presidential debate moderator, was also honored yesterday with a career award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech last night, Lehrer said that traditional journalism is in “a moment that in many ways is a moment of absolute panic...