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When the producers announced on March 25 that they planned to cancel the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, its star, CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, put her foot down--gingerly. "There was a huge, resounding no in me," says the Anchorman actress, who broke her right foot in a performance in Chicago last month. Three weeks of backstage drama followed. First the show was to open in New York City with a stand-in, then it was closed entirely. But in three days of phone pleas to producer Barry Weissler, "I made him see how important it was that the show...
...York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign and urged lawmakers to consider changing tenure rules, normally the purview of the school and the elected board of regents that...
Sailing was sunny and cold on Saturday and a two-day regatta had been planned, but forecasts of inclement weather prompted race organizers to cancel racing on Sunday...
...opposition and within civil society to allow others to run against Mubarak. It also comes against a backdrop of growing pressure from the U.S. for political reform and democratization in Egypt. Indeed, the announcement followed hard on the heels of a decision by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a trip to Egypt, reportedly in response to the arrest last month of parliamentary opposition leader Ayman Nour - who had been pressing for the right of Egyptians to run for president when Mubarak seeks a fifth six-year term later this year. Recent elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories...
...election as president of Lebanon. Amin took his brother's place, signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal with Israel and formally asked Syrian troops to exit Lebanon. Instead, the Syrian government supported Lebanese militia groups that drove U.S. peace-keeping troops out of Lebanon, and forced Gemayel to cancel his Israel agreement. Seventeen years after leaving office, Gemayel now believes that a Syrian withdrawal from his country is inevitable, as he explained to TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Scott MacLeod...