OTHERWORLD. The belief that human beings are in touch with several dimensions of reality is nearly universal. Indeed, for many cultural groups and most religious ones, the nonphysical world is far more real and important than the material one. In most...

The Other World (orbis alia) in Celtic mythology is the realm of the dead, the home of the deities, or the stronghold of other spirits and beings such as the Sídhe. Tales and folklore describe it as existing over the western sea, or at other times...

A TRANQUIL STAR Unpublished Stories By Primo Levi Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli Norton. 164 pp. $21.95Primo Levi, the Italian Jewish chemist and writer who died 20 years ago, is best known for his...

By KATHLEEN DAMINGER Just hearing that the Huun-Huur-Tu, the Throat Singers of Tuva, are coming to F&M's Barshinger Center Friday probably wouldn't make most folks want to run out and buy tickets. After all, we can't desire that which we don't understand. What does...

La Scala opera house has lifted its cancellation of a production of "Candide" that included a scene in which actors depicting President Bush and other world leaders danced in their underwear.Director Robert Carsen said there would be some modifications to the production, which was to...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is coming to the United States this weekend for talks with President Bush at Bush's Maryland mountaintop resort, the White House announced Thursday."It's a pretty broad agenda," press secretary Tony Snow, accompanying Bush on a trip to Philadelphia, told reporters.Brown...