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So let’s relax about Slate’s mistake. It was, after all, a welcome break from mind-numbing host Megan Fox, and what is comedy but the manipulation of the unexpected? The taboo on cursing on television is outdated, a holdover from a more innocent time...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Real Need to Shelter From the F-Bomb | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

The Project, which kicked off its sixth season on Wednesday with “The Taming of the Shrew,” is a local theater company dedicated entirely to intimate and engaging productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Unlike many companies who operate out of one theatre, the...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Modern Take on Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ Goes on at the Square | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

"It was not entirely unexpected," laments Salima Hashmi, an artist, professor of art, and lifelong Lahori. "We can no longer say that it's just the northwest part of Pakistan [under attack]. This is now also about Punjab, one surmises. A second chapter in the development of militancy in Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Twist to Pakistani Terrorists: Women Jihadists | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

But the relationship has officially soured. On Oct. 9, Turkey decided to exclude Israel's air force from participating in a routine NATO war-games exercise, code-named Anatolian Eagle, to be held just days later in the Turkish city of Konya. War games involving multiple countries take months to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friends No More? Why Turkey and Israel Have Fallen Out | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

But one unexpected note of optimism came from Syria, a country that is officially at war with Israel and was put in the diplomatic doghouse by the Bush Administration over its positions on Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian militant groups and Iran. Syria has warmed to the Obama Administration's offer of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Reaction in the Mideast to Obama's Nobel Prize | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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