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...wanted to write a full-length musical. They say to write what you know, so I took everything that I knew and threw it into the pot and called it “In the Heights,” and then over the course of the eight-year process getting “Heights” to Broadway, I learned how to write. It’s a lot of discarded songs and ideas, and a lot of making good songs better and throwing out bad songs. But I had the luxury of excellent collaborators and producers who believed...
...sports, Mauer turned down an offer from Florida State.) In the course of their amateur and professional careers, neither has strayed from his home allegiances. Mauer decided that now wasn’t the time to start—the Twins’ catcher just inked an eight-year $184 million deal...
...nonetheless a consummate pop song—and a great one. From the opening, cheerfully syncopated vocal samples through the disconcertingly straightforward verse-chorus-verse structure, “Go Do” takes the listener on a compressed journey through the emotional high points of a seven- or eight-minute Sigur Rós track. It leaves out the gloom and heartache, however, instead crooning, “We should always know that we can do anything / Go do, you’ll know...
...placed her in solitary confinement in Evin Prison. She was heavily interrogated and coerced into telling a false tale of how she used her book as a cover for her work as an American spy - a "confession" she later recanted. After a sham trial, she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Thanks in large part to international calls for her release (most notably from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), Saberi was freed on May 11, 2009. She returned home to publish Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran - a much different book than...
While admitting that it lost eight fighters in the three-hour attack, a Maoist spokesman justified the massacre in a three-page faxed statement, saying, "The CRPFbattalion deployed in [Chhattisgarh] were killing innocent people, burning villages, raping women and displacing ... people. We also wanted to take revenge of the killing of our top leaders." (See how India's schools have been caught in the cross-fire in the fight against the Maoists...