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Monday, July 1, 2002 |
Moderate Muslims Under Siege. Moderate Muslim intellectuals living in the West have been fighting a thankless battle, often in the shadows, for the very soul of their religion. By Kahled Abou El Fadl. [New York Times: Opinion]
Most of my muslims friends comment on the difficulty of being moderate in the muslim world. You are treated as a fanatic by both fanatic muslim and non muslims. How can you get out of it? Even harder for them is knowing that nothing will change until they convince a lot of people of their view... But is hard for them to even find ways of expression...
10:14:42 AM 
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Big noises at odds over the sound of silence
Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping protégés, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group's album clearly sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by Cage in his prime.
"As my mother said when I told her, 'which part of the silence are they claiming you nicked?'. They say they are claiming copyright on a piece of mine called 'One Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit Batt/Cage just for a laugh. But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence."
10:12:36 AM Google It!
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What Your Ancestors Ate. Felipe Fernández-Armesto, a historian at Oxford University, traces the development and meaning of food through the ages. By Eric Asimov. [New York Times: Books]
I've always found food history very interesting. Pity we can't know how bread was invented. How was wine (spoiled grape juice) invented? Vinegar (spoiled wine)? Butter (spoiled milk)?
Cheese (even more spoiled milk)? Yogurt (milk spoiled in particular way)? Were those guys geniuses or what?
10:10:37 AM
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In the Cult of Business, Icons Fall. In the Cult of Business, Icons Fall To the Editor:. [New York Times: Opinion]
To the Editor:
There was "The Gilded Age" and then "The Roaring Twenties." May I suggest a name for the era now ending, with the stock market again unwell?
"The Silly Con Age."
It was just lying in the middle of the street, waiting for somebody to pick it up.
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Sagaponack, N.Y., June 26, 2002
9:36:32 AM
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