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...post-Mamma Mia! world, and the theater has fallen in love with rock--so long as it's retro. Opening next month on Broadway, accompanied by fervent buzz, is Hairspray, based on the campy John Waters movie and featuring ersatz '50s music by Marc Shaiman. Meanwhile, there's hardly a rock star or group from the '60s, '70s or '80s not about to be celebrated in a songbook musical reprising the greatest hits. We Will Rock You, a sell-out hit in London that boasts Robert De Niro among its backers, sets more than 30 songs of the '70s rock...
Zacarias Moussaoui is almost enough to make the most fervent civil libertarian come out in favor of secret military tribunals. The French national was arrested in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a Minnesota flight school and was indicted last December as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, though his precise role in the plot has never been clear. Many Americans hoped his trial would prove that even in wartime, U.S. courts could do their job. But the scales of justice tip wildly when a defendant keeps turning his own proceedings upside down...
...Hockenheim, Germany. Born in Vantaa, Finland, the 'Flying Finn' recovered from a near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix to go on to win both the 1998 and 1999 Formula One World Championships. DIED. SALAH SHEHADEH, 48, founder and leader of the military wing of Hamas, fervent supporter of suicide bombings and a possible successor to Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in an Israeli air strike; in Gaza City. In the attack, an F-16 warplane fired a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb at the building where Shehadeh was meeting his family. The strike also killed...
...fervent believer in the important roles universities had to play in such a conflict, Conant concluded his final presidential report with a ringing endorsement of the value of higher education to democratic society...
Another professor who challenged our ideas was B. F. Skinner, the noted behaviorist. In those days it was fervently believed that babies were born without any imprint whatsoever. They were a “tabula rasa” and the parents had two years in which to form the personality. Professor Skinner was such a fervent believer in this notion that he invented a box (with holes in the bottom and screening on all sides) in which to place a baby so as to have total control over the baby’s stimuli...