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TODAY IS A DAY observed across the globe as one of prayer and mourning--prayer for the rescue of the oppressed Jewish community in Syria and mourning for the four women who were murdered while trying to flee Syria...
...creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
Cesar Castillo, newly arrived from Cuba to make his fortune as a bandleader in New York City's thriving Latino music scene, has a prayer for success: "In the name of the mambo and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha." Arne Glimcher, director of the exuberant new movie The Mambo Kings, may have a prayer of his own: In the name of the Cubans and the moguls and the public's whim...
...believe, through our study of Christianity, our personal prayer, our reflection and our discourse with fellow Christians, that Gomes' announcement that he is gay does not jeopardize his ability to be a leader of the Christian community at Harvard...
...Sunday, when I go to a church with the proper type of shrine, I light a candle for certain relatives and kneel to say a prayer for them. A few years ago, when I went to Rome for a pilgrimage during Holy Week, I made a point of lighting candles for my grandfather. To release him from purgatory and bring him to sainthood, I prayed in all the basilicas, churches and shrines of the Eternal City...