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...hands-on activities,” must have appreciated the English lyrics and been thrilled by the familiar, rousing music of composer Georges Bizet. However, other audience members may have wondered if the sexual overtones of the performance, as evidenced by Carmen’s blatant seduction of Don Jose and her salacious dancing, were quite appropriate for the children present. Still, the multiracial cast of Carmen on the Common may have inspired some of the younger audience members and certainly must have broken the older audience members’ stereotypical views of opera as soley a Caucasian art form...
...Europe, terrorist analysts have long understood that those the RAND report calls "frustrated immigrants, drifters living on the margins of society, seekers of absolute truth or greater meaning for their lives" provide a rich field for terrorists to harvest. The cases of John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla, coupled with the arrests in Lackawanna and earlier in Detroit and Oregon, suggest that the U.S. may already be facing the same phenomenon...
...local ER: if somebody needs a lawyer, she is it. "All I knew was, I had this assignment," she says, "and I had to come in that day." As it turned out, on May 15 somebody needed a lawyer very badly indeed. That was the day that Jose Padilla--former Chicago gang member, alleged would-be dirty bomber for al-Qaeda, constitutional test case for the new millennium--arrived in New York City. And by pure chance, it fell to Newman to defend him--which is how an obscure criminal-defense lawyer began her transformation into a crusader...
...Lady of the Angels is the work of Jose Rafael Moneo, the great Spanish architect whose roots are simultaneously in the here and now and in the sunlit antiquity of the Mediterranean rim. It was built in part because the Los Angeles archdiocese's previous seat, a much smaller church called St. Vibiana's, was badly damaged in the 1994 earthquake. But it was also built because L.A.'s powerful Roger Cardinal Mahony wanted it. Six years ago Mahony interviewed for the project a series of architects, including Frank Gehry, whose irresistible Walt Disney Concert Hall is going up just...
...CONVICTED. CARY STAYNER, 41, of the 1999 slayings of three female tourists at Yosemite National Park; in San Jose, California. The former motel handyman, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, is currently serving a life sentence for murdering a Yosemite guide...