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Sunday night should have been a good night. The Mountain Goats—plural only because frontman John Darnielle had decided to bring along bassist Peter Hughes to add weight to the former’s energetic rock anthems—had come to the Middle East. They were touring in support of their latest record, “Get Lonely,” and I couldn’t have been more excited. That is, until about five o’clock that afternoon. “No team in major league history had held a seven-game lead...
...second act where you can’t even, sometimes, believe it’s the same show, that they’re the same people."Aside from the work’s power in tactfully navigating the comic and the tragic, Flynn and her cast are endeavoring to add their own touches to the work. This is Flynn’s debut as a director, and she’s hoping to shape the piece in a way that is truly her own—so much so that she’s avoided watching other stage productions...
...state,” he said, but “very close to the surface there’s a very wide, very deep opposition to the government.” McDowell, who is on leave from his position to study at the Kennedy School, encouraged the students to add their voices to the protest against the regime. “The government isn’t going to evaporate on their own,” he said. But some at the meeting were skeptical that protests in the U.S. can be effective. Fausto G. Gurrea, a student...
...Young transcripts will probably add fuel to charges that the Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants...
...usual. The atmosphere is febrile. Politicians of all stripes believe there's a good chance that Gordon Brown, 56, who in June took over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair without a fresh mandate from British voters, will early next week call a snap poll on November 1 to add legitimacy to his reign and to secure a fresh five-year term in government. During a sudden visit to Iraq on Oct. 2, he announced plans to cut the number of British troops stationed there from 5500 to 4500 by Christmas. The Tories attacked this move as a cynical piece...