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...anger: after Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said that defeating terrorists meant that "we also have to work ... sort of the dark side ... A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion." Since then, the U.S. government appears to have quietly defined down torture so that only the most horrific practices are barred. Legal gray zones such as Guantánamo and the network of "black sites" were set up to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction...
...semi-squirmy love-in with David Letterman. No, of course not. Except that, for the last 16 years, the queen of daytime talk had refused to be a guest of the once-hippest guy on late-night talk because he had made her feel demeaned when she did appear back in the 80s, then took her name in vain, oh, about a thousand times in subsequent shows. Not to mention, though of course they both did last night, the "Oprah... Uma..." fiasco the year Letterman hosted the Academy Awards...
...more real. “Ruddigore” was the first show that G&S wrote for electric lights, giving the technical crew a special obligation to technological experimentation. “The most complicated technical aspect is allowing for the ‘ghosts’ to appear from [out of] the portraits,” Ur writes in e-mail. While the orchestra and set-and-tech crew mostly have free rein, Krause provides few guidelines for them to follow when creating the musical and visual settings. He explains to them the vision that he wants to create...
...story, but writing about the episode was not without its fair share of obstacles. Character continuity was an issue without a resolution: students who initiated the effort would leave, and new ones would jump on board. “Readers don’t want characters to appear half way through the book, or disappear half way,” Goldstein says. And then, like any other scribe, he had writer’s block. Setting down his egg-and-cheese bagel, Goldstein explains that his prose felt “stilted and too removed.” He finally...
...Republican” is, for many, a confounding classification. It can appear ludicrous for members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) community to vote for a party that explicitly and implicitly condemns their sexual orientation. Opposition to gay marriage is written into the Republican party’s official platform and the supposed tension is only perpetuated through high-profile “outing” incidents involving conservative public figures like former Virginia congressman Ed Schrock and Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz...