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...same people who say "Hey, Jesus!" to Fowler when they see him around campus). The fact of the matter is that the Jesus of Jesus Christ Superstar is no walk-on-water, parable-loving "other." In Sir Lloyd Weber's version of the Passion, Jesus is a man--not da man, not the Son of Man, just a normal man who is fighting against his own Superstardom to get a very simple message across...
...vision of the computer as an empowering cultural force that can help heal a rift between art and technology that's as old as art and technology themselves. For his '60s-era peers, high tech meant the cold, gray establishment that they were revolting against. Jobs knew better. "Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist," he says. "Michelangelo knew how to cut stone at the quarry. Edwin Land at Polaroid once said, 'I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,' and I've never forgotten that...
...Webern's Piano Variations are mirror variations: Everything reflects. So too, Morris suggests, does everything in Reagan's life. His famous words, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" are foreshadowed in his college days, when Reagan plays a part in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and speaks the lines, "This wall is actually a wall, a thing / Come up between us, shutting me away." One of the most jarring moments of Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard...
...drug trafficking charges, including leaders of a cartel that claims to export 30 tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. "This looks like a very important bust," says TIME correspondent Elaine Shannon. "They?ve arrested some of the key figures in the international drug trade - the Miami DA called it a who?s who of kingpins. And that?s a happy coincidence for President Pastrana, coming just weeks after he asked for substantial U.S. aid to fight the narco traffickers." Colombia has asked for the aid, over three years, as part of an ambitious program to rebuild civil society...
FARM CHARM A statue designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1590s but not cast until this decade was erected in Milan last week, left. Meanwhile, Cow Up a Tree, by John Kelly, mooooved into Paris...