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Egypt is hardly alone in contending with a rebirth of Muslim fundamentalism. A tide of religious fervor has been sweeping across the Islamic belt, threatening to turn half a dozen countries into theocratic states akin to Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan. Terrorism, intolerance and revolution for export are some of the by-products. In their drive for cultural ascendancy, Islamists have found fertile ground in denouncing Western values -- and inspiring violent assaults...
...Utopia," draws a parallel between the death of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at the hands of Stalin and the death of poetry itself in a cynical society. Primarily concerned with images of death and destruction, the third sequence also holds out a ray of hope for resurrection, a rebirth of faith and idealism. By the end of the third sequence, Schnackenberg encapsulates the whole pageant of human history in a few line...
...here sown. For all its claims of excellence, this place is definitely not excellent in human relationships. Too many of us walk through the Yard each winter with excellent minds while our hearts and souls sense the oncoming frost and are forced into hibernation, later uncannily showing signs of rebirth only as Spring Reading Period rolls around. Harvard's amoral addiction to excellence sends the message that any brilliance, however lopsided or maladjusted, ultimately matters more than the excellence some possess through their honest, if sometimes messy, search for personal meaning and lasting friendship...
Cycles of destruction and rebirth are hardly unknown to the Americas' native peoples. The Aymara people of Bolivia have a word for times of war, enslavement and privation: pachakuti, or the disruption of the universe. But pachakuti also contains the assumption that the cosmic order will be restored, ushering in a period of peace and harmony, or nayrapacha. Though their struggle has a far way to go, the native peoples of the two continents are hoping that nayrapacha is within their reach...
This definitive introduction to -- or reaffirmation of -- Marley's greatness ends with a live recording from his last concert in 1980, made a little more than a year before he died of cancer at 36. Redemption Song is about betrayal and forgiveness, repression and rebirth; it is a hymn of hope. That commodity may appear to be in short supply just now, but Songs of Freedom offers something close to a lifetime supply. And it doesn't stint on the rhythm either...