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...studded Rob Marshall film version that many potential audience members have seen. This task presented difficulties from the very beginning, when a Harvard production of “Chicago” was little more than a pipe dream. Instead of merely buying performance rights for the show, as is normal procedure for most existing musicals, Hanley actually spoke with the producers of the current Broadway run of “Chicago” about acquiring the rights to perform it. Getting the rights to perform “Chicago” required a much larger fee than most shows. When...
...latter, Peter Hamer is a retired school principal who, over the years, has endured a divorce, the deaths of both parents and a job that often frayed his nerves; he's now supporting his wife through a battle with breast cancer. To many, those hardships would sound like the normal rough and tumble of life. But they'd be enough to tip others into a state that would pass these days for clinical depression. Hamer says he's never felt down for long. "When trouble happened at work," he says, "I asked myself what part I played in causing...
...Middle East next week. And a new watchdog project called Follow the Money will begin monitoring from the outside. It's sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and led by Dina Rasor, an investigator who helped uncover the Pentagon procurement scandals of the 1980s. "Normal oversight systems have not been in place," Rasor says. "Troops are getting what they don't need but not getting what they do need. One soldier told us that although his unit could not get enough armor, it got a 60-in., $15,000 plasma TV to watch the daily brief...
...groups—has not been so greatly exaggerated as they thought. The unnatural requirement of selecting your seven “best” friends out of a group that, in all likelihood, far exceeds that number, leads to all sorts of plots, plans, and alliances, turning previously normal people into caricatures of their former selves. A few of the personalities that surface during the arrangement of blocking groups include...
...Qahatani's poor health was documented in the log of his interrogation, which shows that on December 7, 2002, his heart rate fell to 35 beats per minute, far below his normal level. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital and revived. The Pentagon offered no comment on what provoked the medical emergency...