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That is the Cirque secret: rendering the undoable beautiful. Aiming for the highest common denominator, Cirque makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. Kŕ flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. Kŕ induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas
Upside Singapore has one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world, 93%, and the retirement system puts little burden on the government...
...would be "crazy" if it dropped the AT&T brand from international services, he says. SBC, meanwhile, hasn't ruled out keeping it. Now that's showing respect for your elders. - By Adam Smith Profits By The Barrel Royal Dutch/Shell announced a 2004 profit of $18.5 billion, the highest ever for a British-listed company. That followed similarly upbeat earnings from ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, although in all three cases company stock barely moved on the day earnings were released; in Shell's case, its announcement also disclosed a further reduction in the firm's proven reserves. Another big oil firm...
...nuclear bombs. At a time of high tensions with India over the disputed region of Kashmir, the event turned Khan into a national hero. His glowering, wavy-haired portrait was hand-painted on the backs of trucks and buses all over the country. He was twice awarded Pakistan's highest civilian honor, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz medal. Celebrated in textbooks, he was probably Pakistan's most famous...
...December 16, 2004, the House of Lords, Britain’s highest court, ruled that the British government’s indefinite detention of terrorist suspects under its Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act is unlawful, effectively putting the kybosh on a significant part of what was the U.K. government’s strategy for dealing with any foreigner who poses, in the words of the legislation, “a risk to national security, and has links with an international terrorist group...