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...Long, Hot Summer Flicks,” arts, May 4. “The Da Vinci Code” was premiered in Cannes, France on Wednesday. We have been treated to delightful stories of Christians planning boycotts, disruptions of screenings, and even hunger strikes. Right now, there is a protest being staged in Boston Commons over it. Apparently the protesters are taking offense to the fact that the plot claims that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and had kids. I am a Roman Catholic. I was an alter boy. I play the organ regularly for church services. I go to mass...
...comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that it will not back down, regardless of who resigns or how many protest. Increased quotas, it claims, are the only way to foster social equality at the institutions that are driving the Indian economy forward...
...north-country town where, he said in No Direction Home, "It was so cold, you couldn't be bad." Seems he was a decent kid, whose dream was to attend West Point. (The mind reels when considering how different the 60s might have been if Bob Dylan the protest poet had instead become Lieut. Zimmerman in the jungles of Vietnam...
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...What caught the ear of many early fans, as much as Dylan's voice and political acuity, was his snarly attitude. When he sang to a lover (would-be or ex), to someone who crowded him by trying to be a friend or a fan, the protest in his tone turned personal and hostile. ("Just because you like my stuff, he famously said, "doesn't mean I owe you anything."") Long before he was a folk rocker, Dylan was the folk Rickles...