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...gangland-style slaying of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel this week is an echo of Lebanon's tragic past. It may also be a glimpse into a future Middle East that looks increasingly troubled...
...attacks, Benedict threw himself into the maelstrom. The unlikely venue was his old teaching grounds, the University of Regensburg. His vehicle was a talk about reason as part of Christianity's very essence. His nominal target was his usual suspect, the secular West, which he said had committed the tragic error of discarding Christianity as reason-free. But this time he had an additional villain in his sights: Islam, which he said actually did undervalue rationality and which he strongly suggested was consequently more inclined to violence...
Kudos to TIME for paying attention to a sad new trend in an already tragic part of the world. Pity Iraqis like al-Anbari whose plight goes unnoticed by their government and the larger world. I hope your story will make more readers stop and wonder how the people of Baghdad must feel when U.S. forces fan out across their city in search of one missing American, when not even their neighborhood police can be counted on to search for kidnapped Iraqis...
...first cantata, “Orphée,” told the story of Orpheus’s journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice. Kathy D. Gerlach ’07, who sang the part of several characters including Eurydice and Pluto, captured the tragic nature of the story. By definition, cantatas feature only one or two performers who are accompanied by a small orchestra. Gerlach was the only performer singing and when she switched roles, the narrative became confusing. Adam R. Singerman ’09 as Orpheus repeated the same expressions, making his performance...
...those afternoons the now-anachronistic Yale Bowl took on a tragic quality, the crisp evening air a harbinger of cold winter—a winter that Yale victories over Harvard somehow seemed to defer...