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...might expect, "Prop 8 - The Musical" is Shaiman's attempt to pick apart the anti-gay marriage lobby's logic. Lending support to the cause are Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Craig Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris and Allison Janney (who, in a cheeky nod to Mormons' support of the ballot initiative, is listed in the title credits as "Prop 8 Leader's #1 Wife"). Despite the collection of comedic chops on stage, the spoof isn't trying to be funny. Well, OK, it is - but the larger point it intends to hammer home is that not all Biblical...
Lucy Caldwell’s recent piece (“Lessons From Mumbai,” column, Dec. 3) on the terrorist attacks on Mumbai was deeply unsettling. Her elliptical logic re-frames a complex historical issue as a simplistic issue of ‘radical Islam’, a dangerous oversimplification of the struggle that precludes nuanced dialogue on issues of national security not only in India but around the world...
...which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn on it; it's just there - one of those creepy, evocative details that participate in a logic deeper and stranger than that of plot and moral. (See pictures of Harry Potter's fans around the world...
...Pamela A. Silver, a professor of systems biology at the Medical School, is also developing a bacterial fuel cell using synthetic biology, the application of computer-systems logic to biology...
...decades, a succession of Pakistani military leaders have made it a point to support, finance, equip and train Islamist militants to conduct terrorist operations in India. The logic is clear: it is more cost-effective to bleed India from within than to challenge it through more conventional military means. Kashmiri militancy against Indian rule has been fomented and supported by Pakistan, though India's own domestic problems--including the occasional eruption of Hindu-Muslim clashes, notably a 2002 pogrom against Muslims in the state of Gujarat--offered a crucial opportunity to recruit disaffected Indian Muslims to the cause of violence...