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...undergraduates involved in over 80 intensive, ongoing programs! I invite comparison with any other department at Harvard--most notably, the athletics department. Try running a decent football program when you share your coach with 19 other teams. These are the conditions under which--despite which our programs thrive...
Successful religious novels draw on the same thing that Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy thrive on: relentless plotting, no matter how far-fetched. The king of the genre is Frank Peretti, author of four best sellers. His latest, The Oath (Word; 550 pages; $23.99), which has sold 500,000 copies, is a backwoods potboiler that shoots off volleys of suspense. Dismembered bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look...
...chur is a groundbreaking film. The director is clearly blaming the immigrants themselves, the Sephardic Moraccans, for their problems integrating into Israeli society. Old world superstitions thrive among this self-segregated community in modern Israel. Dov Halfon, the editor-in-chief of Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv's daily newspaper, writes that Sh'chur "has broken one of the central tenets of traditional Sephardic thought: Always blame the Ashkenazis." Thus, the film is at the center of heated debate in today's Israel...
...western culture's pop music. Franz Liszt and Niccolo Paganini were the Elvis and Bono of their day, playing to spellbound crowds and being mobbed by screaming fans. Today, supporters of classical music worry that its place in popular culture is in jeopardy. But classical music continues to thrive, if in a slightly different...
...core problem has been solved. L.A.'s cop culture still has room for arrogant "cowboys" who ride roughshod over the civil rights of others while scoffing at cops who try to defuse street confrontation. "There's still an element that's being tolerated, if not promoted and allowed to thrive," says Greenebaum...