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Well, true enough. In fact, almost everybody in America knew war had broken out in the Persian Gulf before newspapers hit the stands with the story. It didn't stop people from reading the newspaper. If anything, newspaper sales go way up at such times: Apparently, people actually want to read about something they already fucking know...
...steal at exactly $1,000 and ideal for a dorm room is a 20 year-old southwest Persian tribal rug from Chiraz, 5 by 8, pile weaving; or semi-antique Kilims ($995) and scatter-rugs ($895) with natural dyes from Church Street Rugs, 28 Church Street...
...department with which the museum is associated, the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is more than just archaeology. There are lodged almost all the University's faculty involved in Arab, Jewish, Turkic and Persian history and culture. I can see why an archaeologist fixed on the ancient world might feel alien from exhibits like "Danzig 1939: Treasures from a Destroyed Community," which reopened the museum, or from "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe," created to celebrate the University's 350th anniversary in 1986. The same might be said for "Palms and Pomegranates: The Costumes of Saudi Arabia...
...developed large red blotches on their hands and arms. Within a week, Kay felt tired almost all the time. Since then he has suffered chronic diarrhea, aches in all his joints and has difficulty breathing -- symptoms that have bedeviled many of the Seabees who served with Kay in the Persian Gulf. "These guys have been miserable for the past two years, and they weren't having any of these problems before that," says Charles Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching medical journals going...
...curiously old-fashioned trio of composers. The best of the new works is Weisgall's Esther, by a composer who turns 81 this week and whose fondness for outmoded, Schoenberg- style serialism remains unabated. The story of Esther's dramatic rescue of the Jews from the evil Persian vizier Haman, celebrated each year in the feast of Purim, is one of the Bible's most gripping tales, and Weisgall, working to a libretto by Charles Kondek, has told it well. Tunes, no; drama, yes. The stark and uncompromising Esther is a powerful evening of musical theater, highlighted by the electric...