Mining the past, identity museums forge a future

SEATTLE: In Ballard, a quiet neighborhood not far from the waterfront where many of its residents once worked, I found a replica of an Icelandic badstofa.I am sure I am not alone in never having ...

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National Theater of Scotland comes into its own

NEW YORK: The gold lamé kilt - fabulous. The Afro-Scottish backup singers - sorry, Greek chorus - perfection. The drunken orgies, the violent dismemberment, a bonny Alan Cumming as a really angry...

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'The Hebrew Republic': Forging a secular identity where religious ties rule

The Hebrew Republic How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last By Bernard Avishai 290 pages. $26; £17.99. Harcourt. What would Theodor Herzl, the f...

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