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...might say to the M.P.s. is the BBC vindicated? Nope. Despite the Beeb's public defense of Gilligan's story, an internal e-mail from Gilligan's boss talked about his strong but "flawed" reporting. And a bbc colleague who also interviewed Kelly complained her bosses had tried to dragoon her into corroborating Gilligan's story, which she felt attributed to Kelly things he did not know - specifically, that Campbell personally inserted the 45-minute claim. Last week, it also appeared Gilligan had tried to coach two M.P.s who were preparing to question Kelly. What's not in doubt...
Twenty trend-crazy, “love sick maidens” pine after the poet Bunthorne, who puts on artsy airs to seduce them. The local Dragoon Guards, a crew of macho men who were once fancied by these women—but now discarded with the changing fashion—look on disapprovingly...
...fact the costumes become a wonderfully effective tool in bolstering the comic elements of the play. When Bunthorne walks on stage with his beret, black turtleneck and absurd purple and black striped knickers or when the Dragoon Guards make their dramatic change in costume from military uniform to aesthete-in-training frocks, the audience can’t help but roar with laughter...
...scenes featuring the ensemble cast, the staging allows the maidens to weave between the dragoon guards, creating a playful tension without overcrowding the stage. At times however, as in “Let the Merry Cymbals Sound,” the final scene of Act I, the more complicated staging seems visibly difficult and awkward. Such problems seem like they could have been remedied with additional rehearsal time...
ISPs are already required to respond to requests to remove copyrighted materials--so copyright authors already have a remedy. Burdening search engines and other indexing services with a responsibility to filter their results through an RIAA-approved list would only slow their searches and dragoon their employees into the service of the copyright industry...