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...only the music were as successful. Instead of cohering with the book, the score works against it. None of the songs are particularly memorable, few serve to advance the action and several even bring the show to a grinding halt. Since the material started out without music and works best without it onstage, many have concluded that musicalization was unnecessary. Yet the few powerful musical moments, particularly Lithgow’s “For Susan,” a devastatingly creepy, incestuous waltz and “Don’t Look Now,” a vaudeville number...
...week's end, the Bush administration was clearly worried that the facts on the ground created by "Defensive Shield" may close the road back to peace, and began to urgently call a halt. But next week's headlines may be determined in large part by how Sharon chooses to respond...
...terrorism, fight with no compromise, pull up these wild plants by the roots, smash their infrastructure.” Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Yassir Arafat remains silent in response to President George W. Bush’s demand that he crack down on terrorist organizations and call for a halt to suicide bombings. This silence has been all too common from Arafat over the last several years...
...seems made for this kind of fighting. After two weeks of battle, the mountainsides are scarred black; vehicles, barely recognizable, litter the trails. But on the rises and in the lees of this mountain redoubt, there is still movement. Columns of Afghan troops roll forward and then halt, fanning out soldiers as figures scarper away into the cover of the rocks ahead...
...Palestinian security officials met U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni to discuss the plan drawn up last year by CIA director George Tenet, which requires withdrawal to positions held before the start of the Aqsa intifadeh 18 months ago. The two sides failed to reach agreement, and the Israelis called a halt when a bomber killed himself and three others near shops in West Jerusalem, only a day after a similar attack on a bus killed seven. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks. After Zinni met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and then met Arafat separately, talks resumed, but without resolution...