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RESCUE 'N' ROLL In 2004 Van Halen's David Lee Roth traded a mike for a defibrillator as an EMT. After 200 sorties on the job, he mused, "Not once has anyone recognized...
When it comes to problems with free speech about Islam, Denmark is something of a hotspot. Islamic radicals murdered Danish film director Theo Van Gogh in 2004 in response to his short film “Submission Part I,” which juxtaposed documentary footage of husbands beating their Islamic wives in the name of Allah and the same women praying, their bodies covered in verses from the Koran. In Islam, any visual portrayal of the prophet is blasphemous and last year, it seemed that the Dutch were too afraid of reprisals from Muslim fundamentalists for author...
...showed in the death threats against author Salman Rushdie and a portion of the murder of director Theo Van Gogh, a portion of the Muslim world has once again demonstrated its intolerance for free speech and democratic pluralism—an intolerance that reiterates the gaping incompatibility between dogmatic religion and democratic dissent. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed dressed as a suicide bomber, many Muslims rose up in arms, setting embassies in Beirut and Damascus ablaze, storming the European Union (EU) office in Gaza, boycotting Danish products or withdrawing their ambassadors...
...between Nintendo tunes and rock music wasn't purely one-sided. The popular sounds of the 1980s, responding to a challenge of ornamentation from punk rock and acoustic folk, made their mark on the Nintendo music sensibility, with mixed results. The "Woods" theme from Castlevania II sounds like a Van Halen outtake on speed, as its mathematical, shredding guitar lines lead into glorious faux-hardcore breakdowns. Yet across the genre, cheesy overharmonized lines abound, suggesting the danger of complexity for its own sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique is nothing new; loftier versions...
...years, suite 1600 at the InterContinental Hong Kong (intercontinental.com) was one of Asia's best-kept secrets. Landscaped terraces, a private solarium and a Jacuzzi with an eye-popping view of the Hong Kong skyline were some of the features that lured guests from movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They, and anyone else lucky enough to have passed a night there, probably came away with the feeling that the two-bedroom facility was all but unimprovable. Not true. After a $2.5 million makeover, 1600 has reopened as the hotel's presidential suite...