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...longtime fan of Keillor's, I have often been struck by his meld of nostalgia with bitterness that reflects small-town life in the Midwest. We accept his barbs at our memories of narrow-minded ministers, spinster schoolteachers and children who try to comprehend the town's hypocrisy, simply because Keillor has the knack of laughing with us at our human frailties. He can make us think about our Minnesota forebears without hurting too much. Keillor is all of us who have left the old ways, but who recall the shimmering mists of childhood somewhere in the snow and wheatfields...
While worldwide many Muslim women embrace the strict gender divisions in traditional Islam, in the U.S. a movement is afoot to meld the Western view of gender equality with Muslim teachings. "The newer generation wants to emerge with its own American Muslim identity," says Daisy Khan, director of the American Sufi Muslim Association. Scholars can cite no clear Koranic ban on female leaders, and Wadud thinks women's inequality is not a tenet of the faith but a mark of misguided tradition. "That's where most of the rules came along to say women cannot do things," she says...
...beginning of a changing of the guard at Foggy Bottom. The President wants a diplomatic team that focuses on international-threat reduction a little more and on second-guessing the White House a whole lot less. With Dr. Condi (a Bush confidant?indeed, a member of his mind-meld club) at the helm and a new crew with less of a striped-pants attitude, look for North Korea to become a more serious priority in the cross hairs of U.S. foreign policy...
...very wine Giamatti's character, a wine snob, rails against: American Merlot. But it's a 2001 Pahlmeyer, and it's impressive. "It's got so much going on. So much acid, so much tannin, so much fruit--you taste them so distinctly that with age they'll meld into one distinct flavor," Payne says. It's that same blending that Payne does, mixing the effete and the unpretentious, the banal with the surreal, the painstakingly honed with the unretouched, that make his movies so good. At least that sounds smart after four really big glasses of wine. --With reporting...
...least partially in factories before being transported to building sites. There they can be assembled quickly, sometimes in a matter of days. While most of the new-age houses in a box have yet to be mass-produced, an expected rise in interest rates and a public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make them an attractive alternative, says Charles Bevier, editor of Building Systems magazine, a trade publication. The Freedonia Group, an industrial market-research firm, expects the size of the prefabricated-housing market, which includes panelized, manufactured, modular and precut, to rise to roughly...