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...auguries are mixed. The Percy Jackson books, written by Rick Riordan, a former high school teacher now based in Texas, became a word-of-mouth sensation after the first one hit shelves in 2005. Parents loved that they were based on Greek myths: Percy (played by Logan Lerman in the movie) is actually Perseus, a demigod son of Poseidon. He faces down remodeled versions of such perils as Medusa (in New Jersey), the land of the lotus eaters (in Vegas) and Ares, the god of war (a Hell's Angel). Olympus is on top of the Empire State Building. Hades...
...Growing up as a member of a prosperous family in Poland in the 1920s and '30s, Miles Lerman had no way of knowing he would end up making a mark on the other side of the Atlantic as an anti-Nazi warrior. After the Nazis seized his family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with...
...bombers towards Iran. More importantly, many Israeli military and intelligence officials believe that Iran is a global threat requiring a global answer-not a unilateral one. The very idea that a solo Israeli attack is a possibility plays right into the hands of Tehran, says retired colonel Eran Lerman, director of the Israel office of the American Jewish Committee and a former intelligence officer in the Israeli army who oversaw military intelligence gathering on both Iraq and Iran. "[Ahmadinejad's] trying to turn this from an Iran question into an Israeli question," says Lerman. "The point is that Iran...
...diplomatic and economic pressure doesn't work, though, the game will reach a point at which Israelis are prepared to act-with or without their allies. "We dare not let our children live under the shadow of a nuclear Iran," argues Lerman. "At that point all options will be on the table." The alternative, says Yiftah Shapir, "is to come to terms with a nuclear Iran. Absent change we may have to face that reality...
When a 75-year-old man skillfully rolls to the floor, it becomes obvious that Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is not your average modern dance company. Artistic Director Peter DiMuro once described the company as “just like your last family reunion, if you and all your relatives got together and made dances.” Last Saturday night, the company’s performance proved they are a family to which anyone would want to belong. Even more remarkable than the wide age span of the dancers (which encompasses six decades) is the fact that you stop...