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...Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...
...Broadway's top names, rejecting some and being turned down by others, Simon settled on Susana Tubert, an Argentine-born director who had apprenticed with Harold Prince. She was ousted after three months. Then Simon brought in Eric Simonson, a young Chicago director who had staged The Song of Jacob Zulu on Broadway. Where Tubert had favored a magic-realist approach, Simonson pushed for a more documentary style, which Simon hated. Simonson was out after two months. Simon then prevailed on Morris, whom he got along with well, to take over the job of director as well as choreographer...
Think of Weegee as a chronological and psychological midpoint between two utterly different photographers. One is the turn-of-the-century muckraker Jacob Riis, who saw New York City as a social problem to be solved. The other is Diane Arbus, who found in the city life of the 1960s a psychic spectacle of creepy fascination. Weegee haunts the same kind of shabby neighborhoods that Riis did. But what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer...
...Korea on the U.S. economy. Gibney, who recently wrote about the turnaround at Sony, is accustomed to looking at the big picture. He learned young: his father, Frank Gibney Sr., ran the Tokyo bureau from 1949 to '51. This week Gibney--Junior, that is--draws on dispatches from Rahul Jacob in Seoul, Adam Zagorin in Washington and Jane Van Tassel in New York City to put into perspective the problems in Tokyo and Seoul. "You can't turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper in Japan without being hit by a flood of bad news," says Gibney...
...Instead of improving their paper, they're just trying to take it to the courts," said Jacob Luft, editor-in-chief of the Independent Florida Alligator...