Word: gerald
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...familiar with the frustrations of building missile defenses as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Back in 1975, when Rumsfeld was Gerald Ford's Defense Secretary--he's the only person to have held the job twice--he inherited the Pentagon's first attempt at a missile-defense shield, the $25 billion Safeguard system, designed to protect 150 Minuteman missiles dotting North Dakota...
Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...savor the festival. In this year's concert series, which runs from June 22 through July 8, Rilling explores the theme "Seasons of Life" with works by Bach, Brahms, Verdi, Vivaldi and Faure. Also on the schedule are concerts for kids with stories by Dr. Seuss (Gertrude McFuzz and Gerald McBoing Boing) set to music and a free workshop for high school vocalists called Hands On, Shoes Off, led by Bobby McFerrin...
...barrel politics. Koizumi's immediate problem is that dramatic reforms take time to implement, and the Japanese public that adores him today will turn on him tomorrow if he doesn't produce results--and so might the L.D.P., if it fares poorly in upper-house elections in July. Says Gerald Curtis, a Columbia University political scientist and expert on Japan: "He needs to have something positive to show--every...
...fire was contained to a third floor apartment and in the hallway," said CFD chief Gerald Riordan...