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For Jews, the sacred memory of the Exodus is not a quaint recalling of some event in hoary history, but rather an active and eternal commandment to “know the heart of the stranger because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” The sacred memory of liberation produces a religious life in which the suffering of people anywhere must be relieved in order to remember the event. For Christians the sacred memory of the life and teachings of Jesus is not the mere recalling of a Galilean carpenter, but rather an active and eternal commandment to try to love the way he loved....

You wouldn’t remember my face if you saw it. You did the job on me six months ago. A lot of bladders must have passed under your scalpel in the interim. Actually you didn’t seem to recognize me then, until you had my folder in your hand. I remember the file number. So that’s who this is from-Bladder # 139. I understand your not recognizing me. No hard feelings. In your office you were always busy, running from one examining room to another....

Now that the PS4 generation has passed, the PS5 would be a perfect home for either Silent Hills or an entirely new game. The DualSense controller, in particular, has the potential to be the ultimate tool for creating an immersive horror atmosphere thanks to its advanced rumble, haptic feedback, and adaptive triggers. Furthermore, the controller’s speaker has been improved, and there is now a built-in microphone that could lead to some devious puzzle interactions....

A new “family” edition of Shakespeare is published by Thomas Bowdler. It expurgates the racy stuff. A new verb enters the lexicon: “to bowdlerize,” to remove what cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. Big seller in the United States. Anthony Comstock, a New York grocer and religious fanatic, spurs laws banning obscene literature from the mails. He “exposes” such offending writers as Voltaire. “Comstockery” (as George Bernard Shaw called it) is born....

Until lately, though, it hasn’t been that much fun for the man once hailed as the auto industry’s rock-star CEO. Back when he rescued a nearly bankrupt Nissan in 2000, Ghosn was so revered he became the subject of a superhero comic book in Japan. Bill Ford tried to hire him to fix his family firm, and last year General Motors’ largest shareholder sought to engineer a marriage with Ghosn’s Franco-Japanese auto alliance to create a global car colossus with vast economies of scale....

Israel’s crack Palnat Company is on the front lines of the war against terror, and last week it offered NEWSWEEK a rare view from its trenches. These men are experienced reservists, and nearly all of them have seen active duty in Lebanon. Before their call-up last month, they were Haifa bakers and Tel Aviv software engineers. Their views run the gamut from antiwar campaigners to right-wingers, such as the soldier who earnestly postulated a simple solution to the Palestinian problem: “Let’s nuke them....

Biggs’s death was only a gruesome hit-and-run case until last week, when the medical examiner decided he would have survived if Mallard had called for help. That made it murder, and Mallard was placed under house arrest on $250,000 bail. She and her attorney disputed the most sensational elements in the police account–that she was high on ecstasy at the time, that she and her boyfriend had sex indoors while Biggs lay moaning on top of her car and that it had taken nearly two days for the victim to die....

It could easily happen. La Jolla has already enriched Broadway three times, having originated the productions of “Big River,” “The Who’s ‘Tommy’” and the recent revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Just don’t expect Newman to follow the feel-good tradition of most musical comedy. His outlook, however hummable, is much, much darker. In this modern version of the Faust legend, God is unctuous and out of touch, the Devil is a social climber who just wants to get back to heaven and the title character is a slacker airhead who, when the Devil offers him the old deal of earthly riches in exchange for his soul, blandly asks, “So what’s the catch?...

The football team’s winning season wasn’t the only big news in north-central Wisconsin last fall. An unsolved murder in nearby Wolf River Township had stymied police. Glenn Kopitske, 37, an eccentric loner, was found dead in his living room by his mother last August–naked, face down, a gunshot wound in the back of his head, two stab wounds in his back, another in his heart. After five months, the case had grown cold....

PATIO RESTAURANT OF BEL-AIR HOTEL, LOS ANGELES–DAY. EM:(recounting biographical gossip)… so when Clare found out about Harry and Jeanne, she threatened suicide and– FFL: (interrupting, her eyes hard as the V&B) That’s just what Jane did to Ronnie. EM: Excuse me? FFL: Said she would kill herself if he didn’t marry her. EM: (reaching furtively for his notebook) You’ve got to be kidding. (She stares at him) No, you’re not....

It was, answered Lyz. She was at that moment, about 9:45 a.m., watching scenes of inconceivable devastation on TV. Glick told Lyz that his plane had been seized by three “Iranian-looking” men wearing red headbands and brandishing a red box which, they claimed, contained a bomb. One of the men had a knife, but Glick had not seen any other weapons. The passengers had been herded into the rear of the plane; the hijackers were in the cockpit with the crew....

Many things have changed since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which struck down “separate but equal” schooling. According to the report, called “The Growth of Segregation in American Schools: Changing Patterns of Separation and Poverty Since 1968,” the Northeast now has the most segregated schools in the country and the South the most integrated. But even in the South, racial isolation is increasing; in 199192, only 39 percent of black students attended predominantly white schools, compared with 44 percent three years earlier....

The money would be intended for use on training programs and skills development courses needed to make those struggling with unemployment more competitive in a post-pandemic workforce. Klobuchar, who was campaigning for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination until she ended her bid in March, has worked with Sasse, a Republican, on skills training legislation before. Their new bill also received early support from New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, another former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina....

Enter Thursday’s post: a look at how a unit of Army soldiers spend their nighttime moments when the work day is through. This passage is very telling, and right on. Nighttime, in those last minutes before a soldier falls asleep, is virtually the only moment he or she has alone: For these soldiers, the day is spent as one — one platoon, one mission, a single role for each soldier with a collective goal to make the operation work....

There haven’t been many Ubisoft Forward showcases to date, but each has been valuable in keeping Ubisoft fans up to date on major games while showing off just how prolific Ubisoft is. One would think that these showcases would be more common due to the company’s high number of projects, but there haven’t been any Ubisoft Forward events since June 2021 during the last E3. It’s high time that Ubisoft arranges another presentation that outlines the state of its various upcoming games....

Why is that? Bill Clinton has a distinctive voice, look, posture, gestures–but no one has been able to impersonate him passably. much less achieve the devastating precision of Dana Carvey’s George Bush or Rich Little’s Nixon. It is not for lack of trying. Amateurs like Begala–who did a great Tsongas and Perot (and a wonderful Sen. Phil Gramm)–and ABC News producer Mark Halperin (an inspired Gore) have been on the case for years with little luck....

As of late, girls in Afghanistan are forbidden under order of the Taliban to attend public and private universities, following an edict last spring that kept children and young women from continuing their middle school and high school educations. The strict dress code enforced by Iran’s “morality police,” which launched massive, ongoing protests more than four months ago following the death of 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini, while in police custody, prevents girls and women from expressing their own individualism, religion, and cultural identities safely and authentically....

For Clinton–and nervous House Democrats up for re-election–it was a badly needed win, and they didn’t wait long to gloat. Democratic leaders–who just weeks before were busy distancing themselves from the president–rushed to his side. Republicans seemed even more shocked at the outcome. House Speaker Newt Gingrich had gone into the negotiations certain he had the upper hand over the scandal-tainted Clinton. Republicans did score billions of extra dollars for the Pentagon and block White House efforts to increase regulations on the GOP-friendly oil and logging industries....

Maybe a musical about the dying days of vaudeville doesn’t sound cool. But under the taut direction of Sam Mendes, “Gypsy” seems fresh. It remains the quintessential story about chasing big dreams (“American Idol,” anyone?), hiding your hurt, longing for home. Besides the terrific Peters, the cast, including Tammy Blanchard as Gypsy, are all good. But the biggest stars are still the powerful book (Arthur Laurents), the winsome lyrics (Stephen Sondheim) and the magical score (Jule Styne)....