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...stage as the soloist. This performance of John Corigliano's Pied Piper Fantasy was extremely theatrical. The piece began in the dark, with the hall gradually growing light when Galway as the Pied Piper entered from a side door. Galway appeared on stage in an extravagant red and yellow robe and acted the role of the piper battling and driving away an infestation of rats. The middle movement was the War Cadenza, featuring Galway on solo flute. It was truly the highlight of the piece. The musical special effects Galway invoked in this movement, while dramatic and entertaining...
...WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I.--"The state of the University is healthy," Brown University President Vartan Gregorian proclaimed yesterday before robe-clad faculty and less formally dressed students at The First Baptist Meeting House in America...
...Michael Jackson proved them wrong. The King of Pop became the father of a healthy baby boy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 1 a.m. today. The New York Post reported that Jackson's wife, Debbie Rowe Jackson, actually gave birth early yesterday evening while a surgical-robe-clad Jackson looked on, tenderly murmuring, "My beautiful little boy." Other tabloids focused on what they said were the couple's unusual financial arrangements. One said that Mrs. Jackson will receive $1.24 million for bearing her husband a child and will rake in $2.4 million for Jackson to receive custody...
...four Sunnis executed for the Riyadh bombing was Khalid Said, 24. He had grown his beard in the Islamic way and cut his white cotton robe at calf length to symbolize the modesty of the Prophet Muhammad. Like 10,000 other young Saudis, he had signed up for Afghanistan and the holy war against the atheistic Soviets that was vigorously supported by the pious Saudi government. For Said, Afghanistan was akin to attending a university for terrorism and extremism. He learned to use a rifle and to prime explosives. He met militant Muslim activists from throughout the Middle East, listening...
...values in a society where many customs have remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. Over lunch, Hamad did something that still seems unthinkable to many. He introduced one of his three wives, Jassem's mother, who was modestly dressed in an ankle-length suit rather than in the customary robe. As she spoke of improving the educational system, she seemed more akin to Hillary Clinton than the veiled wives of Arabia. Indeed, next week she undertakes an unprecedented task: an official visit to the U.S., unaccompanied by her husband...