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...time, at this unique moment, for “politics” not only in theory but also in the old-fashioned sense of the word: the information-spreading, pavement- pounding, call-making, rally-attending sense. It’s time to dust off those classic political tools that might expand our attention, for a while, beyond in-house debates over what’s subversive, and beyond the gym, the clubs and the parties. The LGBT community, and its supporters, can’t afford to sleep...
...double-edged sword. It's not just a snake he has to overcome but a snake summoned by [the evil wizard] Voldemort's memory. Over and over in these medieval mystery morality plays, it's the memory of our sinfulness that we must overcome. The phoenix--a classic symbol of Christ, who dies and rises again--comes to help him. He kills the serpent, then in a moment quite shocking--I'm surprised Hollywood left it in--the phoenix weeps in his wound to heal him. That's a classic symbol of Christ's passion. It's Christ's tears...
...find lays to rest a long-standing dispute about another breed of hominid, the Neanderthals. "It's now clear," says White, "that there were anatomically modern humans in Africa long before there were classic Neanderthals in Europe." This means that the more primitive Neanderthals could not, as some have argued, have been our ancestors. They were almost certainly a side branch on the evolutionary tree, and that branch died out some 30,000 years...
...been accused of carting off 158 ancient relics, some of which ended up on the black market and at the Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, according to police. (Christie's says it researched ownership and found no evidence that the pieces were stolen.) Li was allegedly a classic bag man, removing the items one at a time in a sack. When authorities raided his home in December, they found that it "looked like a museum inside," recalls one Chengde police official. Although corrupt museum officials and tomb-raiding peasants face periodic crackdowns?and occasionally even the death sentence...
...listeners outside the country, which is known abroad more for dangdut, gamelan and other ethnomusicological favorites. But Indonesians have been die-hard rock 'n' roll fans since the 1970s, when Procol Harum and Deep Purple made Jakarta a regular tour stop. The baby-boomer crowd still waxes nostalgic for classic rock licks and to this day continues to invite hair-band has-beens such as White Lion and Megadeth to embark on resurrection gigs. Subsequent generations, however, have forsworn feathered hair and eye shadow; the kiblat now is MTV. Seringai front man Arian, for example, is a senior editor...