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...what they perceive as another laboriously lush Lloyd Webber score and clumsy lyrics from the usually clever Zippel. Agreed, agreed, and doesn't matter. What's impressive about this adaptation of the Wilkie Collins mystery novel is how it moves. I don't refer only to the patented Trevor Nunn turntable that, for about the 18th time since the director used it in Les Mis?rables, forces the actors to scamper around the stage like rats on a treadmill. I mean the moving scenery: all video projections by designer William Dudley. In your theater seat...
...nuke in anger. More terrifying is the possibility that malefactors operating without such restraints--such as the suicidal jihadists of al-Qaeda--might acquire atomic materials. It is the global terrorist threat that has made this the least predictable moment since the dawn of the nuclear age. Says Sam Nunn, the Democratic ex-Senator: "The terrorist threat is, to me, the most likely use of a nuclear weapon...
...transferred nuclear technology and designs to clients like Libya, Iran and North Korea, intelligence officials around the world believe much of his network is still in business. (Today Khan lives under house arrest in Pakistan, but the U.S. has yet to receive Islamabad's permission to question him.) Meanwhile, Nunn maintains that the U.S. has underfunded the program that he and Senator Richard Lugar established in 1991 to help Russia secure its inventory of tactical nuclear weapons, which many fear has not been under close control since the demise of the Soviet Union. "These are weapons that could be transported...
...Korea and Iran are believed to have buried clandestine nuclear facilities. But John Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, argues that by talking of a new type of bomb, the Administration is undercutting its own efforts to persuade others to stay out of the nuclear game. Nunn makes the point more colorfully. Other countries, he says, "have a hard time taking instructions from a chain smoker to quit smoking and to help us keep others from starting to smoke...
...Pentagon for having available only eight specially equipped helicopters to transport the rescue force when "at least" ten were needed. Today the Air Force has only seven. Although the Pentagon has ordered ten more, "the main transport programs are hopelessly behind schedule and over cost," charges Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We are only slightly more prepared to carry out the Iranian hostage rescue mission today than we were when it failed...