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...seek the face of India - or perhaps a nice shirt, sari, necklace, stuffed paratha, air conditioner, television set or water pump - look no farther than Chandni Chowk. That centuries-old market near old Delhi's famed Red Fort is a crumbling warren of shops, food stalls, shrines, temples and mosques. Indians of varying ethnic and religious hues work and worship alongside each other in grudging harmony, sharing a common language: money...
...Schmidt's vision not just to attract stars from opera's firmament but also to seek out talented lesser-known artists, to create a world-class house that also provides opportunities for young performers to develop. Maazel personally conducted all auditions for the opera's musicians, first in Spain, then around the world, considering some 5,000 performers to find the 90-plus musicians from over 25 countries that now make up what Mehta calls his "virgin orchestra." Indeed, most of the musicians are in their early 30s, and some have never played in opera orchestras before. The opera company...
...have been almost impossible for her to jump to her death. Cheng was determined to learn more, though friends warned her that she was under surveillance and in great danger. Police agents claiming to be Meiping's friends came to visit Cheng at odd hours and urged her to seek revenge. Suspecting a trap, she refused. Groups of schoolchildren suddenly began harassing her in the street, shouting, ''Spy! Imperialist spy!'' She narrowly escaped death when a mysterious bicyclist deliberately knocked her down in the path of an oncoming bus. Her health slowly improved, however. She did not have cancer...
This campaign strategy relies (apparently, successfully) on the ignorance of the greater American public and, once again, on the fear of a country in need of role models like Obama now more than ever. Even if Obama retains the votes his opponents seek to dislodge, the message that “Muslims are bad” cannot be erased from this campaign or the consciousness of the American people. Obama is not a Muslim—a fact worth repeating for accuracy, not defense—but it is clear that any tenuous association is enough these days. Earlier this...
...they need to, considering how wide their audience and influence were. "At one time comics were genuinely a mass medium," Spiegelman said, "and didn't have to seek approval form the cultural institutions that exist. As that has changed, comics have had to reinvent themselves or die." Reinvent they did, and in the process reinvented the publishing business. As artist Raymond Pettibon puts in in the exhibition catalog: "Comics, the jilted suitor of the high airs art world, come back as the savior of the book industry in the form of the graphic novel...