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...more than a few accusations of anti-Semitism were leveled. Major news outlets brought up the always touchy subject of Christianitys long-troubled relationship with Judaism, and demands were made for an official apology from the Vatican. Why, then, was this divestment attemptwhich Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center correctly labeled as functionally anti-Semiticbarely even covered...
...Iraqi version of American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country...
Everyone says it's the show you gotta see. But it won't be easy. Months before its Oct. 27 opening night, a revival of Neil Simon's 1965 comedy, The Odd Couple, this time with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, has amassed $20 million in ticket sales--the highest advance take ever for a Broadway nonmusical...
...credited with revolutionizing hip-hop, but this doesn't quite fit. Revolutions require moral certainty, and West's default position is doubt. What he's up to is more like a reformation. "I'm pretty calculating," he says, standing before the baroque altar of Prague's Church of St. Simon and Juda. "I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides." As an example, he cites a snippet of Diamonds from Sierra Leone about his rise to fame: "'Life movin' too fast, I need...
...children to world trade, but one of the most effective things concerned citizens in the West can do is lobby their governments to drop agriculture subsidies. It's not going to cure all of Africa's problems, but it would be a big step in the right direction. --By Simon Robinson...