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...those hypercaffeinated conspiracy specials with two-page chapters and people's hair described as "burgundy." But Brown, who by book's end has woven Magdalene intricately and rather outrageously into his plot, has picked his MacGuffin cannily. Not only has he enlisted one of the few New Testament personages whom a reader might arguably imagine in a bathing suit (generations of Old Masters, after all, painted her topless). He has chosen a character whose actual identity is in play, both in theology and pop culture...
...Anderson: In the Old Testament women had leadership roles - Deborah and others. God created male and female in his image. Come to the New Testament, Jesus seemed to have a ministry that favored women in a culture that did not. On Pentecost morning, the room that had this outpouring happen was filled with women as well as men. God is an equal opportunity employer. But the moral stipulation of how one lives ones life will always be important. The moral code as far as human sexual expression that is blessed is that between a man and a woman. In Genesis...
...testament to the depths of the brothers' terror that many Iraqis celebrated the reports of their violent deaths as if life had begun anew. In Baghdad people stayed out all night for the first time since the end of the war, firing celebratory rifle shots from the roofs of their houses and crowding around televisions in hotel lobbies to watch coverage of the raid. In the streets and suqs of the capital the next morning, shop owners congratulated one another with handshakes and kisses when they arrived for work. "If this street could talk, it would tell you that Uday...
...required their Han subjects to wear their hair in queues. But she calls this "a badge of their humiliation"?failing to mention that the Manchus wore their hair the same way. For someone so aware of the dangers of misrepresentation, Chang ought to know better. Still, it's a testament to the power of Chang's subject that the history of the Chinese in America comes through with power and pity?even from a book that, in its determination to rectify past inaccuracies and insults, introduces...
...assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water systems in worse shape than they were in a month ago; it is a testament to the slowness of the U.S.'s rebuilding efforts so far that the traffic lights have just begun to come back on. The enthusiasm Iraqis initially showed the occupiers has largely expired, replaced by disappointment and a growing belief that everyday life was better under Saddam Hussein. "At least...