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Work the Program Given that we've brought on the current crises through a quarter-century of self-destructive financial excess and overdependence on debt and fossil fuels, during the same quarter-century we've all become familiar with a way of thinking about self-destructive excess and dependence. The vocabulary of addiction recovery could come in handy just now. We are like substance abusers coming off a long bender, hitting bottom (we can only hope) and taking the messes we've made as a sobering wake-up call. I've always thought many of the 12 Steps were superfluous...
...have never seen onstage. Nor even - until a few weeks ago, when I finally broke down and rented the DVD - the multiple-Oscar-winning 1961 movie. Of course, I know most of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim score; I've seen enough clips to be familiar with the famed Jerome Robbins choreography; and I'd have to be a pretty benighted theatergoer not to know at least the central conceit of the story - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet transplanted to the street gangs of New York City in the 1950s. (Read TIME's 1957 article "New Musical in Manhattan...
...Bailey itself (the court is called after the street) is a forbidding structure built in 1902, sporting on its dome the gilded figure of Justice familiar from the TV program's titles. Anybody may sit in the courts' public galleries, unless a case is being tried in camera. Turn up at 9:30 a.m. and queue. Call (44-20) 7248 3277 to find out when the courts are open, or to ask about the rare tours. (See 10 things to do in London...
...Dispatched to the consolation round, Caputo found himself face-to-face with growing nemesis Phil Keddy from Iowa. Caputo dropped two bouts this season to Keddy and NCAA’s brought a familiar result. Caputo suffered a heartbreaking 2-0 defeat, sending him to the seventh place bout, where he fell in a rematch with Patterson. But considering the difficulty of earning All-American honors in the wake of a devastating injury, Caputo expressed enthusiasm for the result...
...unique focus on bluegrass music and its emphasis on mixing musical styles at informal jam sessions. These weekly jam sessions in the pub give musicians a chance to either collaborate with other musicians with similar backgrounds or to explore other American music styles that they are not as familiar with. When HCAMA was first formed, the sessions were usually held in dorm basements or common rooms, but, O’Connor says, “there was no social dynamic in basements, because the atmosphere was so mundane.” Thus, the recent move to the pub was like...