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...Broadway's current longest-running musical, second only to “The Fantasticks” for longest-running of all time. Premiered in 1996 with the tagline “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit,” the play presents a series of vignettes on the ever-elusive subject of love. The scenes follow the same general progression as most relationships, from jittery first-dates to chance meetings at wakes. Although the musical is unabashedly heteronormative—mostly likely a product...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'I Love You, You're Perfect,' Don't Change! | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

...some refreshments, so me and my family can watch the match together. And we are all ready to celebrate the victory; the flags are ready, cars to drive all around the city, candies to give out, and to show the terrorists that Iraqis are united and we are not afraid from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqis Unite Over a Big Soccer Win | 7/29/2007 | See Source »

...political strategist, wrote on his blog: "It's stuff like this that will set the G.O.P. back an election cycle or more on the Internet." Democratic consultants are rubbing their hands together at being able to portray their general election rivals as being - as one put it to me - "afraid of snowmen" or simply ignorant of techonologies that many Americans use on a daily basis. Indeed, Governor Romney today, in the context of evincing concern over Internet predators, supported that suspicion: "YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the G.O.P. Say No to YouTube? | 7/27/2007 | See Source »

...four times the length without giving you a headache. The film finds its own pace, and it keeps its personality. It doesn't try to be ruder or kinkier, just bigger and better. It follows a rule Brooks laid down at the beginning of the series: Don't be afraid to show emotion. Audience, that goes for you too when you watch Homer and Marge's worst ever marital crisis. Sob away unabashedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simpsons, Bigger and Better | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...Sunni insurgency - gathered for a catered dinner beside the hotel's outdoor pool. Several, including a high-ranking former military officer now overseeing Ba'athist resistance activities in his region, talked openly, if carefully, about strategy, although some asked that their names be withheld. ("We are not afraid," said the former Iraqi army colonel, as waiters delivered the main course of steak and carrots, "but we do not want to give the [Shi'a] militias justification to kill us.") They said victory was in the air; one delegate celebrated the looming U.S. withdrawal over Diet Pepsi and watermelon slices. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurgents Meet on Post-U.S. Future | 7/24/2007 | See Source »

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