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...model and actress, and Serge Gainsbourg, France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated DNA can be a daunting task. "With acting I never have to reference my father," Gainsbourg says. "With music I want to refer to him, but I want to find my own path, too." (See TIME's fond farewells...
...wake of a controversial court ruling, extremists in Muslim-majority Malaysia vandalized nine churches, using firebombs and paint. The Malaysian high court's decision held that a Catholic newspaper should be allowed to refer to God by the Arabic Allah. Previously, the government had banned the use of the word in non-Muslim publications. The uproar was a sign of the religious rifts challenging the multicultural nation, which has a 9% Christian minority. The court's ruling will not come into force while an appeal is pending...
Sociologists refer to the phenomenon of people marrying people who are like them as homogamy. Doctors don't marry nurses anymore. They marry other doctors. And the nurses? Well, let's just say they don't seem too keen these days on the orderlies...
Thanks to Laura Fitzpatrick for mentioning my initiative to name this decade the Unies in her Brief History [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. It is nice to see people taking note of the efforts being put into finding an appropriate way to refer to the 2000s. The "unification of the Unies" is also a great phrase to describe what happened during the past 10 years, as we saw the world become a smaller place. We saw the rise of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Wikipedia. We have more ways to communicate. During this decade, we became more unified...
...more Boston-area resources, refer to The Boston Globe's Worldly Boston blog...