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...rather, see the 31-page papyrus tractate. Provocatively titled The Gospel of Judas, the alleged Coptic Egyptian translation of a 2nd century manuscript promises to be a kind of Da Vinci Code--style everything-you-know-is-wrong thrill ride. According to its holders, the text will be unveiled this spring for the first time in at least 1,500 years. If your Coptic is rusty, there will be an official translation, and a National Geographic TV special in late April, they say. (Geographic declines comment.) You'll have eminent co-viewers: scholarly interest reaches up to the Vatican...
...prison for up to three years for mass-producing Hitler's picture or displaying a single likeness in a way that glorifies him, or for denying the Holocaust. In France last year, the Roman Catholic Church got a judge to ban an advertisement modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper that depicted everyone but Judas as a woman; he ruled it was a "gratuitous and aggressive intrusion on people's innermost beliefs." France also denies students the right to show their religion, meaning Muslim schoolgirls can't wear head coverings - an act, you might say, of symbolic speech. This...
...These dissimilar waters represent a dichotomy within the Latin American gauche. On the one hand, there is that represented by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since his 2002 election, Lula has worked with the markets, introducing reforms to increase income equality. Although corruption scandals have become a Katrina for his political capital, and might even sink his reelection campaign, his whale-sized Brazil sails toward a richer more equal future...
...RIVER OF DOUBT CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle...
...alien to her dolphin-shrieking peers--has made her kind of, well, cool. Since U Been Gone was named the third-best single of 2005 in the Village Voice's industry-wide poll of music critics, which a few years ago would have been as inconceivable as seeing The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on the list of Pulitzer finalists. "There are so many people who've made millions of dollars and don't deserve to be allowed into a recording studio," says indie rocker Ted Leo, whose cover of Since U Been Gone is a much swapped Internet...