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...after "a lot of reading and a lot of thinking." He told TIME in an interview last March, "It's an important part of my getting through tough periods in my life and remains a bedrock of values--of sureness, I guess--about who I am, where we all fit, what our role is on this planet." Kerry is fascinated, he says, by various religious traditions, and in the 1980s he went to Israel with Jewish friends and read the Sermon on the Mount on the Mountain of Beatitudes. He says he and his wife Teresa also visited Capernaum...
...Scandal at Abu Ghraib As details of the horrible torture of Iraqi prisoners of war by U.S. soldiers and interrogators continue to emerge [May 17], they fit into a pattern of abuse shown in reports from Afghanistan and Guantánamo. Such a consistent approach can only be explained by direction from the top, not by anarchy from below. As a psychologist, I can state that some of the methods are well-known psychological procedures of behavior control. The attempt by the Bush Administration to blame individual soldiers for these abuses is ridiculous. Guido F. Gebauer Niedersachsen, Germany...
...happened--as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it--the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...Both "Can-Can!" and "Bye Bye Birdie" had long Broadway runs and upmarket movie adaptations; in the 90s, "Birdie" was remade for TV, with Vanessa Williams in the female lead. The revivals were spiffy as always, and better than that if Patti LuPone and Karen Ziemba (the respective stars) fit your definition of Broadway mesmerizers...
...planned to get to the pool around five and have a warm-up then,” Wilson said. “The hotel pool was about 12 yards long and we could fit about maybe eight people in it. We could take three strokes before a flip turn...