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The Olympics now over, NBC looks for viewers and offers two new comedies, Watching Ellie and Leap of Faith. They may succeed, not for their contrived creative nuances, but merely for their familiarity. Eric Deggans |
'The right to be the same . . . and different'
Abdullahi An-Na'im, a native of Sudan, is a critic of hard-line Islam. He says he is not a secularist but wants to transform "religion's relation to public life."
Elijah Gosier
If only numbers had human faces too
After several days of studying a page full of numbers called the "City of St. Petersburg Uniform Crime Report -- Drug Arrests 1998-2001 by District and Midtown Area," after performing all sorts of arithmetic, turning the paper in every direction to see if the numbers changed like speed limit signs at night, and ultimately folding it into an airplane, I reached a couple of insightful, radical conclusions.
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