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Throughout history, the world's military have prepared for the next war guided by how the last war was fought. In the face of exploding technological advances in weaponry and communications, shifting international political and economic power, and the rise of challenges such as terrorism and international crime, is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will We Fight? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

The birth of this brand of theater essentially marked the death of public theater in England from the end of the Restoration period until the Victorian era. Rather than trying to maintain its appeal to people of all classes, theater retreated into the walled-off world of the gentry. Certainly...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Death in the Drawing Room | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

From California to Maine, dam removal has begun. When four small diversion dams were taken off a Sierra Nevada stream called Butte Creek, record numbers of spring-run Chinook salmon--listed by the U.S. as a threatened species--rushed past their ruins to spawn. If the spring-run Chinook ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unleash the Rivers | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Five more days, 120 hours, 7,200 seconds till Pacey and Joey finally hook up... After 7,397 performances, Cats will finally close on Broadway this summer. Will copious tears be shed? I think not. It's a two-hour abomination. Good riddance...Just caught Scream 3 a couple days...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the Know | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

A frothy diversion, some call it. A mindless drag extravaganza, others might say. But for $27, we expect a lot more than just fluffy entertainment from Hasty Pudding Theatricals. We expect-- we demand!--art. Art that transcends the boundaries of time, space and gender. Art that can be discussed at...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Proof is in the Pudding | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

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