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APPOINTED. ROWAN WILLIAMS, 52, Welsh archbishop; as Britain's 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Anglican church; by Prime Minister Tony Blair; in London. Among issues on which he has spoken out: church marriages for divorced people and ordination of gays and women (he's for both); Western military intervention (he has warned against it); and The Simpsons ("one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue...
...Center for Missing and Exploited Children, says the old adage "Don't talk to strangers" has limited value if the stranger doesn't come off as a potential threat to a child. Young children often envision strangers as evil looking and might not identify a well-dressed, soft-spoken man looking for help finding his dog as someone to distrust. Security expert Gavin de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift (Little Brown), says parents must educate their kids to be assertive and, specifically, to yell and tell. "When someone tells your child 'Don't yell,' that's when they should...
...those witnesses are not here. Those who are here seem flustered, unable to understand some of the questions, which are in Indonesian. There is no interpreter present. The chief judge warns a defense lawyer to speak more slowly and less aggressively. The lawyer says that East Timorese must be spoken to sternly or they won't understand, like children...
...Bollywood masala--savory cultural stew--restores melodrama to its Greek-tragedy and Italian-opera roots: melody-drama, in which emotions too deep to be spoken must be sung. Imagine Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich dancing around the utility company's lawyers while lip-synching a tune sung by Faith Hill, and you have a hint of the divine delirium that is Bollywood...
...didn't hear any English spoken until I arrived in first grade. At the library, I would perpetually take out and read and reread the poetry of William Blake and Hart Crane until I copied them all out and memorized them without, of course, properly understanding them...