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Springsteen's liberal, humanist side comes out in the last two songs he wrote for The Rising. Worlds Apart is a new take on the classic story of lovers separated by a cultural divide, the lovers in this case being an American and a Middle Eastern Muslim. Springsteen sings, "We'll let love build a bridge, over mountains draped in stars/ I'll meet you on the ridge, between these worlds apart." Paradise opens from the perspective of a suicide bomber ("In the crowded marketplace, I drift from face to face") before transitioning to the mind of a woman...
...Winners ANNA NICOLE SMITH Buxom widow to star in her own reality TV show. It's like Survivor, except the contestants are all geriatric millionaires CINTIO VITIER Cuban poet wins prestigious Mexican prize for literature. He's a scholar, a humanist-and still far less famous than Anna Nicole Smith JON STEWART Comic extends his news satire program The Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays...
...faculty of Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts, his visual vocabulary is verbose and wide. In his own words, Bergstein’s latest work includes “eveything from cubism to modernism. The inside of me is related to art history, humanist sensibilities from Piranesi to [The Simpson’s] Homer, from conceptual art to Da Vinci...
Since current Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced his resignation last month, some Faculty have speculated that Summers will select a humanist to provide balance to an administration led by Summer—an economist—and Provost Steven E. Hyman—a neuroscientist...
...dean of the Faculty is responsible for many things—from recruiting new professors to approving departmental budgets to curbing grade inflation. In all of these areas, a humanist would provide a fresh and needed viewpoint in a science-heavy administration...