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Growing up in Ridgewood, NJ, Kevin had many opportunities to watch theatrical events in nearby New York City. After seeing “Phantom of the Opera,” Kevin fell in love with theater and taught himself how to play piano so that he could play the score. He debuted as an actor in a seventh grade play and continued to perform through high school...
...true passion lies in philosophy; mainly moral philosophy. She took the class Justice, and was amazed by the late night conversations she had with roommates. She identifies strongly with the ideas of Kant. This semester she’s taking a seminar on his political and religious philosophy taught by professor Christine Kosgaard. “She is my hero. All my roommates learned about Kant too this semester.” Next year Sarah will continue her studies in philosophy across the Atlantic at an Oxford master’s program...
...marriage to Kareem was arranged during a visit to the U.S. when she was 21. Engagement followed their second meeting; "he looked like a good chap," she says, laughing. She frames her American experience as a shedding of limiting Indian assumptions for a liberating Islamic understanding. Her upbringing taught women "to take care of our husbands." But as she studied the Koran with several (female) teachers here, "I learned more and more about my rights as a woman. I don't do the housework now because I have to; I do it because I want to. There is a reward...
...American Broadcasting Co. taught grown men to cry. ABC's Brian's Song practically invented the male weepie with its true story of Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan), the Chicago Bears runningbacks whose friendship ended when Piccolo died young; of cancer, in 1970. It was Love Story with a Y chromosome, plus a deep interracial friendship, and the network now promotes it as "groundbreaking," a "landmark" among TV movies...
...important social and economic role. Families in the Sabaot tribe in Kenya, for instance, receive cows upon the circumcision of their first girl. And alternative ceremonies can cause problems of their own. Julie Maranya, coordinator of a Kenyan anti-fgm group, says that because young girls are being taught sex education as part of their alternative initiation, "they think they are now free to engage in pre-marital sex. That's why we have made many tiny mothers...