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...title role of ?Case of Clyde Griffiths,? an adaptation of ?An American Tragedy? staged by Lee Strasberg. After leaving the Group, Kirkland directed a few plays and wrote one Broadway flop. His most piquant credit was as the second lead in a revival of ?Outward Bound.? The director: Otto Preminger...
...decades; to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils; in Riyadh. The vote will take place in three stages, starting in November after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and finishing in January 2005. The elections are part of a campaign to introduce political reform to the tradition-bound country, although Saudi women's rights activists complain that suffrage will not be extended to women...
...Empire, Hardt and Negri described a world in which countries--and multinational corporations and the U.N. and other chunky, powerful institutions--are bound together in a shifting, fluid, borderless global network that no nation controls. Their name for this global system was Empire, and it's a handy model. The U.S. decision to invade Iraq? A classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would...
...peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment, a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak...
...B.O.B." HANDWRITTEN NOTE found on an airsickness bag during a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles from Sydney, prompting a bomb scare and an emergency return to the airport. The letters probably stood for "Best on Board," a reference to the most attractive passenger, rather than "Bomb on Board" as was feared by the crew...