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...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
...making it easier for men to be lazy, at Harvard and beyond. It was once necessary to throw special girl-ask-guy dances when the guys would regularly do the asking for other events. But now, however, it seems as if the male aversion to asking for dates has driven us to a new extreme. Some high schools even have special guy-ask-girl dances...
...We’re almost the opposite of a major label,” Brown says. “Big corporations are focused on what youths want and finding an artist that fits. We’re artistically driven and geared mainly to the adult audience, 25-75. We’re a little upside down...
...skeptics, particularly law enforcement officials, groused that the sustained high alert level was driven mainly by subjective judgments from CIA analysts - who, unlike the FBI and its friends in local law enforcement, didn't have to bear any of the costs of the heightened state of alert. "You can't debunk (the CIA assessments), said one lawman. "(They're) all so vague...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell’s influential address to the U.N. on Baghdad’s lethal technology and connections to al Qaeda have been disappointed. The French and the Germans purport to have the most high-minded of motives, yet in reality their policies are driven by factors no less crass and practical than those that compelled London and Paris to appease Mussolini...