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Whether you know his “Candide” by heart, love his lyrics to “West Side Story,” or just know his name from its shout-out in R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” nearly everyone has some association to Leonard Bernstein ’39 and something to learn from next month’s “Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway” festival. This former Glee Clubber’s life...
Last week, many Muslims in India, like their counterparts around the world, gathered on the streets to burn effigies of the Pope and shout slogans denouncing him for his remarks on Islam and violence. Even before that fully died out, however, a new controversy erupted - one that has turned Muslim ire against some of their own local clerics...
...students? parents were killed in the World Trade Center.? Fuentes was one of thousands of people who visited the site this past Monday, beginning at dawn. Some came to pay their respects to lost friends and relatives, others for solemn, if not emotional, observance; still others came to shout their opinions into the street supporting or criticizing the war in Iraq...
Naguib Mahfouz, who died last week at 94, transcended the status of celebrated writer and became Egypt's spiritual father. The characters from his books were the vocabulary of everyday life. It is common to hear an Egyptian woman, quarrelling with her husband, shout in his face, "You think you're Si Sayed?"?a reference to the tyrannical husband in Mahfouz's landmark Cairo Trilogy. He laid the foundations of the modern Arab novel and proved that a great artist?he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988?must also be a great human being. Thousands of Cairo...
...celebrated Hizballah's non-defeat as if it were an Iranian victory. It cooked what was billed as the world's largest kebab--more than 21-ft. long. And Iranians were "asked" via the state-run media to go up to their rooftops at an appointed hour and shout "Allahu akbar" (God is great). The tradition, from the early days of the Islamic Revolution, used to draw people out en masse. The city reverberated with their cries. Last week, across most of Tehran, one heard only silence...