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4. THE WOMAN IN WHITE, book by Charlotte Jones, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Theater | 12/26/2005 | See Source »

Broadway has become so reliant on unearthing old musicals (there are four running right now) that it could be a zombie movie - The Night of the Singing Dead. Truth is, the old shows were better, including some that had short runs or none at all. Fortunately, there's a crusading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Theater | 12/26/2005 | See Source »

Intelligent design supporters, however, refused to concede defeat.The Thomas More Law Center issued a written statement criticizing the Supreme Court itself, saying that the existing case law on which Jones based his decision ?is in hopeless disarray and in need of substantial revision.? The center?s president, Richard Thompson, insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Breathtaking Inanity': How Intelligent Design Flunked Its Test Case | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

"Breathtaking inanity" is how U.S. District Judge John Jones characterized the Dover, PA school board's attempt to cast doubt on the theory of evolution-but in fairness, the recently ousted members of that board were relative unsophisticates, snookered by the intellectual scam that calls itself "intelligent design," or ID...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Victorious | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

So ID isn't science, and by that measure alone the Dover school board's attempts to make it so were indeed inane. But beyond that the board insisted that by leaving out the G-word you remove the religious connotation from ID, thus evading a 1987 Supreme Court ban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Victorious | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

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