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Beginning his dig in a tomb that others had already explored, Hawass spied an opening in a chamber wall. When he and his team excavated the rubble that lay beyond, they found anterooms filled with paintings of religious scenes and inscriptions from the Book of the Dead. In the adjacent burial chamber, which swirled with a yellow powder reminiscent of Hawass's dream, they discovered a limestone sarcophagus. When they dusted off the lid and uncovered the famous name Zed-Khonsu-efankh, Hawass recalls, "we all screamed...
...readily evident. Rather than a feeling of great competition between shows, there's a prevailing sense of sharing and fairness. Rather than operating in isolation, actors and directors who might never otherwise speak to one another can exchange ideas and discuss future plans. Whereas publications, singing groups or even chamber ensembles can develop rivalries that prohibit any kind of collective action, the theater community has no problem joining together for Common Casting, turning what could be a drawn-out and maddening process of endless auditions scattered throughout the year into a relatively fast and well-oiled one-week affair. More...
...sheets in the Lincoln Bedroom completely threadbare by now? You might think so - according to the White House, more than 400 guests have slept in the famed chamber (as well as various other guest rooms at the presidential residence and Camp David) since July 1999. This delicious bit of Clinton-baiting fodder, released two weeks after the New York Times requested the list, could be problematic for the administration on one front in particular: Quite a number of the guests are generous contributors to Al Gore's and Hillary Clinton's campaign coffers. In a headache-inducing development...
...asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally forced to retreat into a private meeting room off the Security Council chamber. As Putin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov made it through the door, his security men blocked anyone else from entering. Left outside among the disappointed autograph seekers were Russia's high-powered U.N. ambassador Sergey Lavrov and Putin's naval attach? - who happened to be carrying the briefcase containing...
...Games," insists festival director Leo Schofield, "and that is just that building on Bennelong Point." Indeed, whatever quibbles you might have with the Opera House's acoustics or the dinginess of its orchestral pit, Utzon's poetic sails provide a charged and sacred space for musicians. As the Australian Chamber Orchestra's artistic director and lead violinist Richard Tognetti points out, "There's a certain gladiatorial aspect...