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...play minister. He would entertain people. He had a way of spinning words and a power to his voice. He drew people who were basically religious for the most part in the early years. They were hard-working people, and they were drawn initially to a rare thing in the Midwest, an integrated Christian congregation. When Jones brought his group to California, he started attracting a broader base of people, too. Not just people from the churches, especially the black churches, but also young, idealistic, many of them college-educated people, who wanted to belong to an organization that practiced...
...rare interdisciplinary panel, Faust lent her Civil War history expertise and Vendler provided a literary perspective on the poem...
...MISS: Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz as they present a rare dining experience, serving an elaborate 20-course dinner (with the elaborate price of $1,500) at Per Se in New York City on Nov. 11 (212-823-9450). Similar suppers will follow at Achatz's Alinea and Keller's French Laundry...
...operatic history, and its synopsis is guaranteed to satisfy a tradition-seeking audience. Opera companies are bolder in mounting productions of lesser-known operas from the early 17th and early 18th centuries, like those of Monteverdi and Handel, but performances of works from the mid-to-late 1600s are rare. Thus, the ambition of the HEMS in selecting this somewhat hazardous reprisal is all the more admirable, but it also subjects itself to an intense test of finesse and intelligence. The uniqueness of its subject and the lack of sufficient previous efforts with which to compare it make judgment difficult...
...infrastructure and economy of the country are as shoddy as the construction of its schools. Precision and planning are as rare as forested mountaintops, swept clean by loggers and people desperate for firewood. Day-to-day survival is hard enough. Rising fuel and food prices led to riots earlier this year. Then four hurricanes pummeled the country in the space of four weeks; the resulting floods displaced approximately one million people, killed more than a thousand and left thousands more homeless. (See pictures of Haiti's food riots here...