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...first verse of the ”Go Joe Song,” a squeaky voice better suited to “Sesame Street” than Pennsylvania Avenue asks in the background, “Hi, who are you voting for?” Equivocally at first, another falsetto answers, “Joe, Joe Lieberman?” A few lame measures later, everyone’s resolve has strengthened with a crescendo into the oh-so-clever chorus of “Let?...
...husband in Vail (It turns out he wasn't cheating). Do background checks on crooked doctors (one was suspected of sexually harassing an elderly woman). These are some duties of the research analysts at Beau Dietl & Associates, a New York City private-investigation firm. Dietl, a former star N.Y.P.D. detective, hires twentysomethings to support the retired cops in the field. "They're whizzes on the computer," he says. "And they don't bring that civil-service mentality to the job." Although analysts spend most days behind a desk, Dietl aims to increase their spy duties. After all, who would suspect...
...entirety that is attacked," he told reporters. "Anti-Semitism is contrary to all the values of France." Chirac has said that before. But this time, something was different. When a wave of anti-Semitic attacks grabbed headlines last year, he downplayed the problem. Now, against the deadly background of the Nov. 15 synagogue bombings in Turkey, he showed a sense of urgency that, for many French Jews, has been far too long in coming. Statistics show a marked rise in anti-Semitic acts from the autumn of 2000 to late 2002, and a considerable dip over the last year...
...task force will consist of two students and six faculty members—of which at least two are associated with Hampton’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications (SHSJC). Committee members with a background in journalism should help insure that the school appreciates the importance of student control of their press...
When I first saw the poster for South Pacific a few weeks ago, I was aghast. With its light purple background and a big tropical flower blooming from its bottom corner, it was clear to me that Harvard’s production of this cheesy 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical would be a conventionally warm and fuzzy staging. The setting had not been moved to present-day Iraq, nor had the show’s naïve optimism been turned into an any sort of ironic post-modernist commentary...