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The Editor Recommends
| news&
analysis |
The
Religious Face of Iraq. A western reporter’s
insight into the mind and world of Ayatollah Al
Sistani, the Shia cleric whose alliance won the
most votes in the recently held Iraqi elections,
at www.washingtonpost.com |
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The
Hitch. Who is the real Christopher Hitchens? Radical
or neocon? Same old or sold out? A look at the maverick
commentator through his new collection of writings
Love, Poetry and War,
at www.villagevoice.com |
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And
a must-read for all fans of Arthur Miller who passed
away last forthnight. A succinct, straight-handed
obituary,
at www.economist.comi |
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| arts
& culture |
 Saturday,
by Ian McEwan. Henry Perowne is a neurosurgeon,
cocooned in his upper middle-class existence,
coasting along. With a newspaper lawyer for a
wife, and a daughter engaging in poetic flights,
he seems one of those individuals whose lives
can never go wrong.
Then, through the window, he sees a plane crash,
and it changes his life forever. In this story
of one day, the embattled Perowne is forced to
confront his mortality, and the meaning that the
ideas of war and peace, violence and civilisation
hold for him.
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| society
& lifestyle |
 With
Ray Charles posthumously sweeping the most prestigious
categories of the 2005 Grammy awards — album
and record of the year — it is time to renew
our acquaintance with the sightless Black musician
who pioneered soul music in the late 50s. Secularising
aspects of gospel music and adding blues-based lyrics,
Charles veritably created a new genre of music.
So, go for his all-time hit album, Genius Loves
Company. Hear the record of the year Here We Go
Again — a duet from this album, sung by Charles
and Norah Jones. |
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05, 2005
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