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...legs that anatomists have not previously diagrammed. True, after singing and dancing for 20 minutes she needed to towel off backstage, and in her absence we were left with abstract modern dance pieces that made Shanghai Surprise look like a cogent piece of storytelling. But for 47? Good lord...
...conflict in the Niddle East escalates, Lord Levy, Tony Blair's special envoy to the region, might be expected to be busy. But Levy's time is taken up by another task he performs for Britain's Prime Minister: persuading wealthy patrons to stump up cash [an error occurred while processing this directive] for the Labour Party. Those donors, and the Prime Minister he devotedly serves, were bound to be concerned after Levy was arrested last week. Police are investigating possible breaches of the laws governing party funding; 48 people have already been interviewed by the authorities, who hope...
...Unanswered Questions With all due respect, when Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and asked, "Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?", he didn't ask the right question [June 12]. A small part of God was murdered along with every innocent man, woman and child in the Nazi death camps, and God's question with each dying breath was, "Why, humankind, do you remain silent? How can you tolerate all this?" God is still asking. Esther Blumenfeld Tucson, Arizona...
...never a good time, of course, to be accused of price-fixing. But BP can especially not afford it now. Every month of record gas prices brings more pressure on Congress to impose a windfall tax on oil companies. BP?s chief executive, Lord John Browne, made a relatively modest $8.24 million last year, but his counterpart at Exxon-Mobil, Lee Raymond, retired with a package worth an astonishing $400 million - adding more fuel to the fire over CEO pay and calls for oil industry profits to be reined in. While BP isn?t lobbying for drilling in the Arctic...
...stand at Armageddon," TR once told his followers, "and we battle for the Lord." Bush has never gone quite that far, but the world-saving impulse that is TR's most unappealing legacy inspires him even so. "Small-government" conservatives - which is to say, conservatives - wish he'd find another 20th century Republican hero. He might want to investigate Calvin Coolidge, whose own conservatism was more modest, more peaceable, and - by the way - more popular. If the president insists, he can even call...