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...back in the bottle. Even Pakistan's moderate Muslims are caught in the middle. Islam has never been decoupled from Shari'a, and though few Pakistanis see the Taliban period in neighboring Afghanistan, in which women were stoned for adultery and thieves faced the amputation of hands, as the ideal Islamic state, they feel conflicted about throwing it out entirely. "Hardly any Muslim will say, No, I do not want Shari'a," says Najam Sethi, a top Pakistani newspaper editor. "To say that would imply negation of your religion...
...MacGregor, whose museum displays the marbles in galleries near its great collections of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Asian and African art, the division of the work between London and Athens is ideal. "The sculptures are part of two separate stories," he says. "One is the story of architecture and sculpture in Athens. The other is the story of sculpture in the world...
...Greeks, it's not so ideal. They want the marbles back, and the New Acropolis Museum is an ingenious part of their lengthy campaign to retrieve them. It will display the Greek portions of the Parthenon frieze side by side with pale plaster copies of the portions in London, like empty chairs at a banquet table. Meanwhile, the Greeks have also proposed that the British Museum might simply lend them the Elgin Marbles for the official opening of the museum later this year. There's just one problem. The British Museum insists that Greece must first recognize, formally, that...
...their seats. Many viewers had a personal interest in the show, such as Megan L. Srinivas ’09, who came to support her two blockmates who aided in production. And if sitting in an austere library listening to centuries-old prose wasn’t an ideal plan for a hot Valentine’s Day, things got surprisingly steamy when Antony reminded Cleopatra, “Last night you did desire it.” Clearly, coupled with desserts and sexual tension, as show producer Tara L. Moross ’09 says, “Shakespeare...
...Ideal Date: Steven McDonald is my white whale...