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...friends have stopped going to parties because even a spilled drink can lead to a shooting. Police say some black inner-city youths use guns as fashion accessories. In London last year, 20 of the city's 22 gun homicides were the result of black-on-black crime. Simon Hughes, a Liberal Democrat frontbench M.P. for a South London constituency, says "the culture isn't limited to youngsters of Caribbean extraction but is spreading out into other black communities, and into Turkish and Balkan ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government...
...Rushdie was approached by the RSC. They'd seen director Supple's 1998 production of another Rushdie work, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, at the Royal National Theatre, and were keen to bring the two men together again. Supple, who worked on the stage adaptation with Rushdie and Simon Reade, says they wrestled with the scale of the book: "We had to make it clear, vivid, exciting and simple enough to play onstage." In the end, they had to lose several important characters and memorable scenes - including one of co-adapter Reade's favorites, where Saleem visits Tibibi...
JUNE 11 American Idol premieres, launching debate over Simon Cowell's put-downs, e.g., "Who's your teacher? Get a lawyer...
Even the very young are being led into religious instruction through play. At St. Simon's Episcopal Church in Conyers, Ga., toddlers have their own altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality...
...SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON