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Jarcho discovered the poem “The Highwayman” through her grandmother, who had won an award as a girl in Puerto Rico for reciting the text. Deciding that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman...
...Merchant of Venice is the first play that Perry has directed. She spent the summer studying the text to envisage a clear theme and trajectory for Athena’s production, she said after a rehearsal last week...
...Taha's fate demonstrates how, in most Muslim countries, it remains all but impossible to reinterpret for modern times a text considered to be the literal word of God. But in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe, an effort is in full swing to separate the eternal message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector...
...approval of the U.N. Security Council to force Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction or face "serious consequences." French and Russian support for the resolution came after American assurances that it would not be used as a trigger for an attack on Iraq. Although the text of the resolution does not explicitly mention military action, the intention to use force if breaches are discovered is unambiguous. The U.N. gave Saddam Hussein 30 days to come clean on his weapons program; it will assess his progress after weapons inspectors report in late February. There...
...tried to continue reading. I had to finish multiple books of The Bodhicharyavatara, a central text of Mahayana Buddhism, for my tutorial that afternoon. It’s the guide to being a bodhisattva, one who has dedicated oneself not just to attaining enlightenment, but also to saving “all beings from suffering.” “All beings” includes flies. Someone who has taken the bodhisattva vows has dedicated himself or herself to eons of work while remaining in the cycle of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth characterized...