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Jesse Helms must be in pig paradise. Last year the Senator from North Carolina huffed and tut-tutted about state-supported pornography until a cowed Congress mandated that artists sign a purity oath before receiving federal funds. Now he gets to watch the sorry spectacle of a few theater people conspiring to prevent an actor from plying his craft. With all the best intentions, they are doing Helms' proscriptive work for him and proving that you don't have to be a philistine to get the censor's itch; in the process they threaten to deprive many actors of good...
...transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys" and a sotto voce variation of "She asked...
...Egyptologist, including a year and a half in Cairo studying hieroglyphics, and a thesis on the Old Kingdom, he can spin innumerable tales of the history and lore of the Middle East. Antara, a bastard son and warrior from the Jahaliya, the time before Islam. Akhnaten, who ruled before Tut, and founded the temple of the sun god. But though Egyptology was what originally took him to Egypt, "when I got there I was more interested in modern Egypt...
...theme suites upstairs are equally preposterous: gold-sprinkled carpets, Jacuzzis in the bedrooms, Egyptian murals in the Cleopatra suite, cherubim on the ceiling of the Michelangelo suite and, in the King Tut suite, lots of the sort of bric-a-brac a king likes to be buried with. Prices start at $250 a night for 1,200 sq. ft. and run to $10,000 for the 4,200-sq.-ft. Alexander the Great suite. But costs are incidental, since most of these luxury accommodations are reserved, on the house, for high rollers. "It has the most beautiful suites that have...
...first close-up look at a recently discovered trove of exquisite Assyrian jewelry that experts are calling the most significant archaeological find since King Tut...