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Today, the term “religious conflict” might bring to mind the troubles in the Middle East and the culture clash between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Perhaps it might recall the rise of the Evangelical Right in America and the debate over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools. But in his book “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Steven Nadler evokes a time when the greatest religious conflicts were located within the Christian Church itself, between Protestantism and Catholicism. Nadler relays the intellectual debate that took...
...said director Roy A. Kimmey ’09. “There are often sharp shifts in emotion throughout the music of this opera, and we want the gestures to point out these rhetorical changes in the music.”Keeping the thoughts of the director in mind, Hargis worked with six members of the cast on using more Baroque performance practices in their interpretations of the music, helping the character of Sicle (Lisa A. Lynch), on using her gestures more effectively. Because Sicle’s piece is a combination of an aria (a more melodic song...
...awkward teen obsessed with live-action role-playing, while Wheeler’s charge is Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson), a precocious but foul-mouthed youngster. Both young actors bring impressive energy to their roles. As the shy and socially inept Augie, Mintz-Plasse calls to mind his best-known role as McLovin’ in “Superbad.” Yet he still manages to make Augie unique and remarkably endearing. Thompson, on the other hand, challenges every notion of cuteness as he spews expletives and racial epithets with equal enthusiasm. Nonetheless, his character...
...What goes through your mind when somebody hands you a $1 million check? You feel pretty happy. I always knew I was going to ride bulls for a living, or hoped that was what I was going to do. But I never had any idea that I would be able to make the living that I've been able to. I owe every bit of it to the guys who started the Professional Bull Riders. Without them, I'd be no different than all the really good bull riders before me that rodeoed all their lives and when they were...
...Just a little more than 10 years ago," Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin told TIME this week, "it was inconceivable to any of us that we would see an African American win a national party's ticket and then compete effectively. It's mind-boggling," she continued, "how much this means about the opportunities available to all people - Asians, Latinos and other people who've historically been locked out of the system." (See pictures of Election 2008 in the heart of the Civil Rights struggle...