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HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and author of How to Read and Why: "Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, particularly the passage, 'Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which...
...speak at the service at the National Cathedral last week was Imam Muzammil H. Siddiqi: "We see the evil of destruction and the suffering of many of the people before our eyes. With broken and humble hearts and with tears in our eyes we turn to you, O Lord...
...will come to regard my own 2001 summer—spent, like the summers of so many Harvard students, amid the topless towers and teeming streets of Manhattan Island—as a fleeting glimpse of a golden age, a vision of Babylon before the judgment of the Lord came upon...
...When the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones ?" - 1 Kings 10: 1-2or "Greatness," but these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty...
...reviews when the American band the Strokes hit London earlier this year were astonishing in their almost insane effusiveness. "They're Lou Reed, television and the Ramones rolled into one!" gushed London's Guardian. Britain hadn't so completely surrendered to a group of Americans since Lord Cornwallis handed over his sword at Yorktown...