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HELP WANTED: Pastor's wife. Must sing, play music, lead youth groups, raise seraphic children, entertain church notables, minister to other wives, have ability to recite Bible backward and choreograph Christmas pageant. Must keep pastor sated, peaceful and out of trouble. Difficult colleagues, demanding customers, erratic hours...
...their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story of the Middle East for years has been, in many ways, an endless pageant of the self-defeating. ''We were in a different time zone 40 years ago,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian professor of philosophy at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. As the Zionist immigration came to critical mass, especially after World War II and the Holocaust, when Israel became...
...Best Self 2005. Sopen B. Shah ’08: runner-up to America’s Junior Miss 2004 (Top Five) and National Interview winner as Wisconsin’s Junior Miss 2004. FM: How do people at Harvard react when they find out that you have done pageants? AEB: I think people are really afraid of juxtaposing beauty and academic talent and intelligence, so I do think it’s a shock to some people. WGH: It’s like that whole thing that people think that you can’t be smart and beautiful...
...know (about Scientology), but you have no idea. So grab your copy of “Dianetics,” pack Suri and the family in the Volvo, and head out to the Boston production of “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant.” Documenting the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the show features a cast of children, sarcastically belting tunes about the late messianic sci-fi writer and describing the trappings of Scientology, like auditing, the ARC Triangle, Xenu, and the Galactic Confederacy. Runs Wednesday through Sunday until...
...outrageous drag queen that ramps up the "feminine" signifiers to extreme levels, Yamazaki tweaks the tropes of girl's manga up to preposterous proportions. Characters don't just cry, for examples, rivers of tears flood out of their faces. In another story, Octopus Girl competes in a beauty pageant. Everything is perfectly cute and delightful until centipedes pour out of a rival's outfit. "Dear God!" marvels Octopus Girl, with a look of deep concern, followed quickly by, "I put those centipedes in her outfit. That's the first bitch down!" Labeled for "mature" readers, but without an ounce...