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...Gunther Verheugen, Europe's Commissioner for Enlargement, swung through Turkey last week before completing his recommendation on whether the E.U. should start membership negotiations with the largely Muslim country. The plan was to display pro-European values - until Turkish domestic politics seeped through. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced he would press ahead with a new law banning adultery. "The family is a sacred institution for us," he said in a newspaper interview. The measure is scheduled to be included in a package of amendments to be introduced this week. It would impose up to a three-year prison term...
...Frayn?s new play is the story of that spy, Gunther Guillaume, who made himself indispensible to Brandt and became one of his three secretaries, vetting all the Chancellor?s papers after sending copies to his bosses in East Berlin. Conleth Hill (who amused Broadway audiences as one of the two actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical...
...addition to fiction and poetry, Updike—who now tries to produce three pages every day—has written a play and the libretto for an opera with music by Gunther Schuller...
...freshman, Westfall was the Ivy Rookie of the Week twice and was named to the Soccer America Team of the Week. At the end of the season, she became the second consecutive Crimson player—after goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther ’03—and sixth overall to be named the Ivy Rookie of the Year
...good things must come to an end--and then get spun off into something that's almost as good, but not quite. After Friends finishes its 10th and final season next year, NBC will launch a sitcom starring Joey Tribbiani, the lazy, lovable lunk played by MATT LEBLANC. (What, Gunther wasn't available?) The new show will premiere in the fall of 2004 in that same old comfy Friends time slot, Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. Joey won't be going on his own: the three executive producers who created Friends will be there for him too. The title...