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...tries to woo Yum-Yum (Annie E. Levine ’08) away from her fiancé Ko-Ko (W. Brian C. Polk ’09). Rather inconveniently, Ko-Ko also happens to be both Yum-Yum’s guardian and the Lord High Executioner of Titipu, with a quota to meet...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'The Mikado' Makes For Good Fun | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

With international outrage growing, two British Muslim parliamentarians, Lord Ahmed and Lady Warsi, traveled to Sudan in the hopes of securing her release. The government was amenable. For one thing, an internal investigation by the Sudanese government apparently revealed Khawad's role. Indeed, many members of the political elite expressed private embarrassment over the affair. As the Britons arrived in Khartoum, Gibbons' release seemed all but assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teddy Bear Tumult's Legacy | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...reaction by most Sudanese to Gibbons' lenient sentence was mostly benign; still, the government's fears of a larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teddy Bear Tumult's Legacy | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...iPod is sleek, minimalist design (and a brilliant ad campaign). People buy iPods to look at almost as much as to listen to. Kindle, by comparison, is heavy, clunky, and utterly graceless. Its marketers will also have to struggle with the fact that reading, be it “Lord of the Rings” or “Lolita,” will never be as “hip” as listening to music...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Stick to Hardcover | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...been turned into a radio drama and a hit London stage play. A movie of The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, opens in the U.S. next week and will probably take its place in the pantheon of profitable fantasy franchises that includes The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. But the most striking fact about Pullman's work is that his characters aren't fighting Sauron or the White Queen or Voldemort. Their enemy is the Christian church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Compass vs. the Church | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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