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...Broadway audience, and the influx of out-of-towners has meant hit shows that once would have closed after a successful season or two now rival the Empire State Building as New York City fixtures. Phantom of the Opera has been playing for 18 years; Beauty and the Beast for 12; Rent for 10. Les Misérables, which closed after a 16-year run (third longest in Broadway history), has been gone for just three years--and it's already planning a return engagement in the fall...
That is what scientists call a feedback loop, and it's a nasty one, since once you uncap the Arctic Ocean, you unleash another beast: the comparatively warm layer of water about 600 ft. deep that circulates in and out of the Atlantic. "Remove the ice," says Woods Hole's Curry, "and the water starts talking to the atmosphere, releasing its heat. This is not a good thing...
...needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," à la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China is infamous. "I could maybe find one on the street somewhere for five or six renminbi (about 67?)," Wu says, "but I know the quality here is good, and the price still...
...they unfairly detract from the complex emotions of the characters and the ultimately heartbreaking storyline. “Ask the Dust,†follows the trials of Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a struggling Italian-American author who calls himself “a lover, equally fond of man and beast alike.†Don’t ask me what that means. Bandini meets a beautiful Mexican waitress, Camilla, played by Salma Hayek. The two fall madly in love, of course, but their relationships is hindered by fear from publicly expressing their interracial romance. Bandini constantly insults Camilla with...