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...wandering back from exile in Europe and the U.S. to a tumultuous welcome, and Kabul's virtuosos have unearthed the instruments they buried in their gardens. Songs blast from Kabul shops, and more than a dozen radio stations flourish around the country. Mirwais, one of the first to sing in public after the Taliban's ouster, is at the vanguard of this revival. Despite his youth, he recognizes the enormity of the change. In the old days, he says, "If the Taliban caught me, they would have shaved my head. And only Allah knows what other punishments I would have...
...like Mirwais have several advantages over their veteran rivals. The cascading clarity of their voices blends harmoniously with the Afghan rabab, an ancient, 19-stringed instrument that is a cross between a sitar and a mandolin. And because he is still a boy, Mirwais is allowed at weddings to sing for both men and women, whose parties are strictly segregated. This will last until Mirwais turns 15 and is considered a man, no longer to be trusted around unveiled women...
Marlowe’s play calls for Cupid to sing two unspecified songs, which composer Laura Jeppensen chose to arrange from Marlowe’s own poetry. Jeppensen’s otherworldly countertenor compositions create some of the most riveting moments of the play and capture its cold cruelty with lines such as: “Love is not full of pity as men say/… Then darkness falls; dark night is Cupid?...
...Jafsie." John F. Condon, 72, became associated with the case in its second week. He is a retired public school teacher of The Bronx who once did social service work at Sing Sing and has occupied himself from time to time during his later years with writing letters to the newspapers. At the outset he had announced in The Bronx Home News that he would be glad to help restore the child to its parents...
...reason for Harvard to hold anything but ADRs,” Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor and expert on Sudan, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “[U]sing non-American exchanges for trading purposes seems mighty suspicious...