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...airline that people seek out and will pay for. "You can't just make it a standard product," he says. He wants to give them, and his employees, something different, something memorable. So the Australian staff who've flown 19 hours for a press conference get their treat at sundown: Branson in full celebrity mode on the roof of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Reclining like a pasha on an upholstered banquette, he downs champagne and chats up Daryl Hannah and an 18-year-old aspiring actress-environmentalist named Zelda Williams. He seems to enjoy himself but leaves the party early...
Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Vel�zquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...expert on animals and religion, argues that it can also come from a misunderstanding of religious traditions. He notes that many preachers point to the passage in Genesis where God grants man “dominion” over the beasts of the wild as a blank check to treat animals at our will. He argues that the Hebrew word for “dominion” in is the same word that the Bible uses to refer to a King’s rule over his subjects. He says that “stewardship” is a better...
...resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century’s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor Texan. Rural Americans, just like their urban counterparts, are a complex group, full of competing opinions on politics, culture, and religion, yet we continue to treat them as one-dimensional pawns in the bloody arena of political point-scoring...
...Jews come from?” asks a character in the first act of “A Little Night Yiddish.” The play, written by Laura M. Togut ’08, may not answer this question, but it certainly gives the viewer a visual treat in its presentation of Yiddish theater and song. Despite a hard-to-follow plotline and technical difficulties related to the projection of English subtitles, the show was amusing and the cast was enthusiastic. Unfamiliarity with the Yiddish language or Jewish traditions didn’t prevent anyone from having a good...