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...generally on the side of the angels ... It punctures lots of pompous fictions about how the world works." ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the animated sitcom The Simpsons, prompting the TV show's producers to invite him to lend his voice to an upcoming episode...
Reagan still had to prove himself in A material, and just before the war he got a few chances. In the fluffy 1941 comedy Million Dollar Baby, he's Peter Rowan, a rebellious composer who's "got a sour disposition and a mouth to match." He calls himself "just a student of history. Civilization's rotting away." (Back then, he didn't mean the Soviet Union.) Reagan is pretty persuasive as a fellow spoiling for a fight with the world...
READING | Charles Rowan Beye...
Distinguished Professor of Classics, Emeritus at the City University of New York, Charles Rowan Beye will discuss his new book Odysseus: A Life. This is the first book to chronicle Homer’s epic fictional hero’s life from start to finish and is described as “a witty, unusual and fascinating biography of Odysseus.” Free. 6 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...