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...That led directly to an episode that, as Henry Adams records in his history of the two Jefferson administrations, used to be known to every American schoolboy. In February 1804, Captain Stephen Decatur Jr. sailed straight into Tripoli harbor and set on fire the captured Philadelphia. In August 1804 he helped rescue its crew from a gruesome imprisonment, bombarded the fortified town and boarded the pasha's own fleet where it lay at anchor. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, Decatur is said by legend--and by some eyewitnesses--to have slain the very officer who, some hours before...
...decades before arriving at the IOP in August 2002, Glickman served as Secretary of Agriculture for the better part of the Clinton Administration following an 18-year career representing Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. This fall, he will turn his attention to the silver screen—but the veteran politician says his new job fits in with his years in Washington...
...Upper West Side middle-aged couples (read: my parents) queued up to see director and gadfly Michael Moore’s most controversial film to date. Oh and then there were a few others: the groups carrying signs and enlisting moviegoers to help protest the Republican National Convention in August; the well-spoken beggar who dispassionately argued his case to theater patrons (“My, you look nice tonight. I don’t drink or do drugs, but I do need some money”); and lastly two blonde men in pastel polo walking by. With a sneer...
...created by the legendary American acoustician Russell Johnson, which is regarded by expert listeners as one of the best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed-use hall as a home for Indonesia's semiprofessional Nusantara Symphony Orchestra; Bangkok, too, is building a classical-music venue, an opera house on the sixth...
Seniors, like everyone else, should wear light, breathable clothes; if you find your mother donning sweaters in August, consider boxing up her winter gear so that she can choose only from appropriate clothing...