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House: Dunster Concentration: History and Literature Hometown: San Diego, Calif. Ideal Date: Salem Witch Museum...nothing helps a relationship along more than learning about a community in terror. Then take a detour through Marblehead to see where they actually filmed that ’90s tour de force, “Hocus Pocus.” It doesn’t have to be exactly that, but it would definitely be witch-themed. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Be emotionally unavailable or dating somebody else. Works every time. Where to find you on a Saturday night...
...before we laugh it off, we must admit that there is something fundamentally unsettling about the idea of Hell. Even in Salem, the horror capital of Massachusetts, the most terrifying sight was not the man in the lab coat covered in body parts or any of the copious witches. It was a group of four Christians from Repent America, equipped with signs, megaphone, and fliers, out to warn us that, according to the words of Saint Paul emblazoned on one of their signs, “neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous...
...mysteries of Isis and alchemies of Horus.” “What is your religion now?” I asked, tentatively. “I’m a Thelemite,” Eric said. Of course he was. Apparently, there are quite a few in Salem...
...That’s why we try to get residences,” Chung explains, referring to programs where artists are given space to live and work at reduced cost. After finishing a residence at MIT, they are returning for another stay at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. There have also been obstacles in combining Chinese, Japanese, and Korean varieties of zither in the midst of ongoing political tensions between the three countries.“It’s one of the reasons why it’s been very difficult to get this together...
...signatories include Sheik Mohammed Nur Abdullah, vice president of the Fiqh Council of North America; Sheikh Salem Falahat, director-general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan; Hasan Shariatmadari, head of the Iranian National Republicans party; and Sheikh Ikrima Said Sabri, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque. "This is a determination by mainstream, traditional Muslim scholars and authorities who cover all the branches of Islam, and that's very unusual," says David Ford, Director of the Inter-Faith Program at the University of Cambridge, who helped launch the letter in London this morning. "It is unapologetic...