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...perch golden birds, a tented ceiling, painted silk walls and an abundance of cherubs and shells, as well as a number of watercolors by Messel, two of them designs for The Sleeping Beauty. It's all utterly romantic and theatrical, if a little over the top - Noël Coward commented on its "somewhat excessive luxe," but found it "terribly exotic." And no end of actors, from Marlene Dietrich to Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Cruise, have stayed there. It's surely the most fantastical hotel suite in London - and the most evocative of an enchanted night's sleep...
...insurgency at large. They took over local militias' checkpoints and neighborhoods, even "arresting" leading Sunni insurgent figures. When the local clerical body, the Association of Muslim Scholars, refused to endorse his suicide bombings and beheadings of Western hostages, al-Zarqawi branded the association's leader, Harith al-Dhari, a coward. "In Fallujah [al-Zarqawi's] leaders were foreigners who'd come to be martyred," says Abu Marwan. "What did they care about the political process? Nothing...
...CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime aviator...
...deserted because he was scared of going to Vietnam. Legally, Jenkins is a free man now, having been discharged from the U.S. military. But knowing about those who served honorably in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, I have difficulty feeling any sympathy for that coward. Kazuho Baba Anaheim, California...
...commemorations are unlikely to bring reconciliation or catharsis, just more pain. "We're all dreading them," says Kasumova. Families of those who lost children in the siege accuse survivors, especially teachers, of failing to save their loved ones. "If you survived, you have to be a coward," is how Kasumova sums up the prevailing logic. "When the explosions started, the person next to me was torn to pieces," she says. "I still don't know why I survived...