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...Israel, the triumphalism that followed the air strike - Prime Minister Sharon called it one of Israel's "greatest successes" - quickly turned into a chorus of self-flagellation Wednesday in the face of fierce international criticism over the civilian casualties. Israel's President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and a number of military officials described the decision to drop a one-ton bomb in densely populated Gaza as a mistake. The IDF and the Shin Bet security service even launched an inquiry into the "intelligence failure" that resulted in such high civilian casualties...
...midst of the starkest plot twists, everyone sings and dances. Virtually all Bollywood films are musicals. For 60 years, they have provided India with most of its hit songs (in effect, the movie industry is the music industry). And not just songs--immense production numbers. Dozens of chorus boys in leather and houris in saris frolic while the stars risk dislocating their shoulders and display '60s-style legwork not seen in the West since the Peppermint Lounge closed. The stars dance, but they don't sing. That's the job of "playback singers," unseen onscreen but famous...
...midst of the starkest plot twists, everyone sings and dances. Virtually all Bollywood films are musicals. For 60 years, they have provided India with most of its hit songs (in effect, the movie industry is the music industry). And not just songs?immense production numbers. Dozens of chorus boys in leather and houris in saris frolic while the stars risk dislocating their shoulders and display '60s-style legwork not seen in the West since the Peppermint Lounge closed. The stars dance, but they don't sing. That's the job of "playback singers," unseen onscreen but famous...
...unhappiness with the government's actions, she finds the response from schoolchildren and young offenders, to whom she has taken her antidrug message, "hugely exhilarating. A 'Just Say No' approach would never work. But they are surprisingly receptive to hard facts." The daughter of an electrician and a chorus dancer, Greenfield enrolled at Oxford to study philosophy and psychology after graduating from school with an unusual mix of math, Greek and Latin. "I was interested in why people behaved the way they did, what makes them fall in love or start wars. I discovered that science provided me with more...
...lent Ecevit - who suffers from a host of ailments linked to a chronic neurological disease - stubbornly clung to power. With Ecevit's three-party coalition teetering on the brink of collapse, his Democratic Left Party (D.S.P.) essentially split in two and parliament in recess, Ecevit, 77, defied a growing chorus of demands that he step down because of his poor health and absence from view in the past two months. By the weekend, more than 40 D.S.P. legislators had resigned, as had at least seven cabinet ministers. Most prominent among them was Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, a vigorous and young...