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Follow the money. In journalism, it's a dictum that has stood the test of time. Where you have money, chances are you have conflict--who gets how much--and where you have conflict, chances are you have a story...
...hand wringing, American resistance falls far short of the hostility evident in Western Europe. Gangs of racist thugs in Britain engage in "Paki bashing." France has officially declared a target of "zero immigration." Germany insists it is "not a country of immigration," and neo-Nazis have taken the dictum literally enough to set fire to hostels for foreign workers and asylum seekers...
...desktop photograph of his wife wearing a bikini -- until two female coworkers complained that it constituted sexual harassment and got the department chairman to order it removed. The Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, bowing to pressure from Native Americans and allies, adopted the "nickname rule." This dictum bars sports teams from playing nonleague games with schools using American Indians as symbols...
...opera as "an exotic and irrational entertainment." That may have been true in London two centuries ago, when castrati sopranos warbled Handel in Italian before an audience of uncomprehending Britons. But during the past two decades, a wave of new American operas has put the lie to Johnson's dictum. One after another, composers have produced works teeming with powerful drama, accessible idioms and contemporary relevance...
...Woman and the title number -- if the current revival did not look so silly, ham it up so much and underscore so painfully the indefinition and lack of motivation in all the characters. Instead, the national touring production that opened on Broadway last week proves Stephen Sondheim's dictum that nothing dates faster than a musical...