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Music: San Francisco has a really grand opera in Conrad Susa...
...comes the composer-librettist team of Conrad Susa and Philip Littell, who have seized upon Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses as a fitting subject for an opera. It is an inspired choice: in the machinating Marquise de Merteuil and the voluptuary Vicomte de Valmont the composer has two soulless soul mates whose knowledge of the ways of love make The Art of War look like a kindergarten training manual. What Susa and Littell have created in The Dangerous Liaisons, now getting its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera, is nothing short...
...saved a small town from the Environmental Protection Agency when it moved against a local polluter. Federal bureaucracy, Kerrey warns, "is the most formidable enemy of all sometimes." (Is this the same Bob Kerrey who not long ago proposed a federal takeover of health insurance?) And here's Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, bragging that he was "leader in the fight that stopped the BTU tax." That's shorthand for the energy tax. Readers will recall that the leader in the effort to advance it was Bill Clinton...
Working for McDonnell Douglas in California, CHARLES CONRAD is involved in developing a single-stage rocket that may dramatically reduce the cost of sending payloads into orbit. "This is the first thing that's got my candle lit in 25 years," he says...
...spent much of her time worrying about herbrothers and sisters, even as they wereintroducing her to their college friends and moremature concerns. Though her parents tried to keepher childhood worry-free, she'd overhearconversations and obsess about them. When Conrad'sroommate wasn't paying her phone bill, Smith,still in grade school, wrote the Woman a letter...