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...London theater is that there?s so blooming much of it; a frustrating thing is that many plays bloom briefly, then fade after a limited engagement. Some shows run for ages that shouldn?t: the stodgy ?Blood Brothers? has run for 16 years; and Nunn?s rendition of the Cole Porter musical ?Anything Goes,? which moved successfully from the National to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, looked simultaneously stiff and frantic when I caught it. All right, the good die young. Here are notes on a few plays you can?t see, and I?ll have trouble forgetting...
...rift among Iraqi Shiites. Sadr's challenge to both the clerical establishment and the traditional Shiite political parties is giving voice to the frustrations of the marginalized majority, and his challenge is likely to continue, and even escalate long after the last shots are fired in Najaf. As Juan Cole, the University of Michigan Middle East historian whose blog is required reading for anyone seeking informed perspective on Iraq notes, Sadr's movement is primarily nationalist, rather than strictly religious, in character. Some of the early photographs of his supporters marching around Baghdad showed them as likely to be sporting...
...Hoehyeon Underground Mall in the financial district, is a mecca for vinyl hunters. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records that customers have to shuffle sideways around the store. The catalog is eclectic and includes Korean folk collections from the 1950s, live Nat King Cole recordings, Eddie Murphy stand-up albums as well as a jumble of jazz, classical...
...more depressing truisms of the day: Young people hate old songs. They don?t get the smoothness, the optimism, the careful rhyming. Precision of lyric and emotion is so uncool it?s almost Republican. (Worse then Republican: most of them would rather listen to Cheney than to Cole Porter.) For them, the Great American Song Book might as well be in Esperanto - a language not worth knowing. Kids don?t think of a standard by Gershwin or Kern or Rodgers as a failed version of a new song. It just isn?t music to them...
Much of this new information came from al-Qaeda detainees interrogated by the U.S., including captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Muhammad bin Attash, who organized the Cole attack, and from as many as 100 separate electronic intelligence intercepts. After Time.com first reported the commission's findings on contact between Iran and al-Qaeda, Iran's Intelligence Minister issued a statement on Saturday claiming that "the Intelligence Ministry has identified and dismantled all Iranian branches of the al-Qaeda movement...