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...decades of suspicion and mistrust between African and European medicine practitioners aren't so easily overcome, and not every traditional healer is so eager as Okello is to pitch...
...Faith Healer The one-person show is, I confess, not my favorite form of theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that...
AISHWARYA RAI The ex--Miss World conquered Bollywood and became an international film star I would like to submit Oprah Winfrey as my nomination. There are those who are born to be leaders, and she is one of them. Oprah is a healer of lost souls. She continues to lead millions of people to their path of personal happiness. She has a powerful and generous spirit, with the heart of a goddess. She is both admired and loved...
...Mark Frutkin?s new Canadian novel Fabrizio's Return (Knopf Canada; 312 pages) Rome?s Sherlock is Michele Archenti, an advocate sent to Cremona, Italy, a village in the Lombardy plains. He's there to investigate the nomination of Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest and healer who lived in the 17th century, 76 years earlier. From the villagers, who would love nothing more than to have a hometown saint, Archenti hears fantastical tales of Cambiati's miracles: he floated among the clouds, cured the sick, revived the dead, made cathedrals appear out of thin air. It has grown...
...first years as president, Bok took on the role of campus healer, following on his legacy as dean of the Law School, where he was very popular among the students...