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Only later would Lloyd Webber scoot across town to the opening most of London was buzzing about--of Whistle Down the Wind, his much troubled musical that had an abortive tryout 1 1/2 years ago in Washington. Since then, Lloyd Webber has overseen a major revamp of the show: brought in a new director, helped rewrite the book and added half a dozen new songs. "To be frank," he says of the old version, "the work had not been done to get it into theatrical shape...
...used by U.S. forces in a secret operation in Laos, known as Tailwind, and that U.S. defectors were intentionally killed. TIME ran a companion story that week, "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?," written by the CNN journalists. After these stories provoked strong denials, CNN launched an investigation, overseen by the eminent attorney Floyd Abrams, and we promised that we would examine the issue and report back...
...addition to Healey and Gelb, the programs will be overseen by a committee of nine members, which includes Alan Brinkley, an author and history professor at Columbia University; Nicholas Lemann, an author and Washington Editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Kari Marton, author and human rights activist and Vartan Gregorian, the president of The Carnegie Corporation and former president of Brown University...
When its moment arrives again, this Saturday, the venerable--and venerated--relic will be slipped out of the silver casket that has protected it for centuries, through fire and water, doubt and blind belief. Gingerly, fastidiously, overseen by Giovanni Cardinal Saldarini and a German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case...
...Grove, who was TIME's Man of the Year in 1997, worked at Intel from the corporation's founding in 1968, and became CEO in 1987. When Barrett, who had overseen much of Intel's product development over the past decade, was made president in 1997, it was widely speculated that he was being groomed as Grove's successor...