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...Frankenstein (Loop Theater, Oct. 15-Nov. 14) The company much of Chicago is talking about; a clutch of clowns reimagine Mary Shelley's monster number - humor at its darkest. 16 Grandmothers (Sept. 18), 16 Students (Oct. 10) and 16 Assholes (Nov. 7) The Rhino Fest at the Curious Theatre Branch features one-night stands based on (you guessed it) the number 16. Monty Python's Spamalot (Shubert Theatre, Dec. 21?Jan. 16) - Eric Idle's retread of Monty Python and the Holy Grail opens in Chicago and stars Tim Curry, Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce...
...mind when it expanded a fledgling parathletics foundation to include wounded veterans returning from the front. Hundreds of thousands of Iranian soldiers died in the eight-year war, and more than 400,000 were injured, many by land mines. The celebration of martyrdom, a tenet of Islam's Shia branch, provided the backbone for a revolutionary rhetoric that idealized sacrifice?an important propaganda tool for a young theocracy struggling to justify an ongoing war and a harsh Islamic regime. Veterans who had risked life and limb to defend their country were hailed as living martyrs. But for many, such...
...attracting a trend-setting young urban crowd to the brand. In 1992 they took the company public with one of the industry's most successful IPOs. In 2001 Chou and Stroll cashed out their holdings in Hilfiger and a year later relinquished their co-chairman titles in order to branch out and invest in other brands. They had already bought the British luxury-goods firms Asprey and Garrard in 2000, and after unsuccessful runs at Valentino, Brooks Brothers and Calvin Klein, the partners went after Kors...
...rocks. "Go left!" and "Go right!" involve two paddlers throwing themselves across the raft - and usually onto their fellow paddlers with varying degrees of injury - while I will become the first of the trip to obey the "Dive!' command, flinging myself flat to avoid being impaled on a black branch rearing out of the water. We spend the first night, as we will every night, on air mattresses under the glittering sky, in the deep sleep of the very weary. We have about...
...next day swings between moments of rest, watching entranced as a platypus glides underwater alongside us, and the chaos that ensues when a branch catches one raft as we scoot over a short drop, pitching three of us head first into the churning current and ripping the raft's floor. But we're quickly succumbing to the river's magnificence; its sweet-tasting, clear waters, tinged brown by the tannin leaching off plants, surging and meandering between banks crowded with a jostling throng of trees, tall leatherwoods dropping white blossoms into the foam-covered eddies. Thick forest stretches away...