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...interview with TIME in January, Sheik Omar carefully denied involvement in any violent incident. "What is needed from me is not to make fatwas, but to say the truth," he said. Though his manner is good humored, Sheik Omar grows sharp when railing against the "dishonest" Western media and denouncing the brutal tactics of Egyptian security forces, abuses that are also well documented by human-rights organizations. His harsh interpretations of Muslim scriptures have won the allegiance of many young and disaffected Egyptians...
Indeed, he's something of a square. A self-described "uptight, serialism- oriented, would-be intellectual," Salonen was educated as a composer in his native Helsinki, in the manner of such daunting dodecaphonists as Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Nono and Elliott Carter. His conducting career began as an adjunct to his composing at the Sibelius Academy, but it took off in 1983 when he stepped in for Michael Tilson Thomas on a week's notice to lead the London Philharmonia in Mahler's woolly mammoth, the Symphony No. 3 -- despite the fact that prior to the call he had never even...
...show emphasized old-fashioned, straight-ahead journalism. Most of the program was devoted to host Forrest Sawyer's report on a Portland, Oregon, man convicted of attempted murder for sleeping with his next-door neighbor when he knew he had AIDS. It was engrossing in the familiar 60 Minutes manner: dramatic storytelling, a clear-cut bad guy and a gunslinging reporter. Unfortunately, Sawyer's cool intelligence often comes across as smugness, and it remains to be seen whether he can make Day One go the distance...
What choice does this leave? Must each group reserve for itself the right to tell its own history? If so, what would then result? For within each group, there are smaller units, each of which experiences history in a different manner, and within these units. But wait a minute! Is this what we want? Do we really want to follow down a slippery slope that leads to complete alienation? Muhammad argues, "I didn't come to Harvard University to teach you to hate white people." But what exactly are you doing, Muhammad If you teach us that there...
Last week, Bob Rae, the premier of Ontario, spoke in an unusually frank manner at the Center for International Affairs on lessons that the United States could learn from Ontario's health-care system. At one point in the discussion, he remarked that the absurd amounts spent on marginal health-care technology to preserve lives already at their tail end was a fruitless attempt to raise our collective quality of life. American medical-research institutions, he said, are trying to do to natural death what the Victorians did to sex--sweep it under the carpet and pretend that it doesn...