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With Syria keenly aware of the 250,000 U.S. troops next door, Bush's advisers decided "to rattle the cage" of Syrian President Bashar Assad, says a White House aide. Overnight the Administration swung its big guns from Baghdad toward Damascus and read Syria the riot act. President Bush charged Damascus with possessing illicit chemical weapons. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said there was "absolutely no question" that Syria was harboring Iraqi leaders who had fled their defeated country; he added that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction might have been spirited to Syria as well. The Pentagon accused Damascus...
Instead, Adams embraced minimalism and composers like John Cage. His senior thesis, a song-cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble, was based on a series of “psychedelic” texts written by a friend...
...Carnegie Hall’s upcoming season alone, the gamut of modern music’s luminaries—from Caetano Veloso and Pierre Boulez to Emmylou Harris, John Cage and Johann Sebastian Bach—will be celebrated in the same space as Adams...
ADAPTATION. At its core, Adaptation is an analysis of the intellectual diseases that plague every writer, from editorial pressure to sibling rivalry to unrequited love. But its narrative edges make it a unique experience. Nicolas Cage plays writer Charlie Kaufman (the real-life writer of the film), who becomes consumed by his assignment to adapt Susan Orlean’s meditative nonfiction novel The Orchid Thief and his own personal eccentricities. Like Kaufman and director Spike Jonze’s previous film Being John Malkovich, several plots overlap and intertwine with surprising at dramatic twists, creating a frustrating, complex film...
...transition was not easy, and required extra time in the batting cage to make the switch. But in the end, Goldberg feels she made the right choice, even if that fact wasn’t clear early...