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Steiner’s lecture included a wide range of “masters” from across history and cultures, from the biblical patriarch Abraham to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche...
...immediate relatives, most of whom, including his mother, are living in Saudi Arabia. Matching what's known as mitochondrial DNA to that of his mother would provide the most definitive identification, since bin Laden is thought to be the only child of his mother and the bin Laden family patriarch, who has many wives. The chief stumbling block may be the willingness of the Saudi regime to allow the DNA hunt. Just another challenge for U.S. diplomacy...
...immediate relatives, most of whom, including his mother, are living in Saudi Arabia. Matching what's known as mitochondrial dna to that of his mother would provide the most definitive identification because bin Laden is thought to be the only child of his mother and the bin Laden family patriarch, who had many wives. The chief stumbling block may be the willingness of the Saudi regime to allow the dna hunt. Are the special forces equipped with mouth swabs...
...focuses its energies more narrowly on satirizing the pervasive connection made between the Italian-American community and the mafia. The Soprano’s Last Supper is a meeting of prominent crime families, á la The Godfather, who must reconfigure the balance of power now that Tony, the patriarch of the Baritone family (get it? Sopranos? Baritones? Well, it’s a bit over the characters heads), is being sent up the river. The show gets off to a slow start and could clearly benefit from a few more dress rehearsals, but with regular performances set to start...
...family whose patriarch once spoke of it dismissively, the Bushes have developed a thing for vision. In September 1990, a few weeks after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush told Congress that "out of these troubled times, our objective--a new world order--can emerge." For the next year or so, he trotted out that phrase times without number. The new world order, he said at one point, implied "new ways of working with other nations...peaceful settlement of disputes, solidarity against aggression...and just treatment of all peoples...