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...many otherwise savvy consumers of popular culture not pick up on the artists' intentions? The problem may lie less in the work itself than the medium chosen for presenting it, as one viewer pointed out. "It's dangerous to do something as emotive and important as this without some kind of dialogue, set only to a music track," wrote Loz. "Set within a film, in a context, I'm sure it wouldn't feel this...
...program works because of Andes' passion for theater and teaching, and his persistence in pursuing his famous guests and helping them devise their lesson plans. After learning from these theater professionals about the various jobs, the children then pick a job for themselves. By the end of first grade, they will have created their own musical fairy tale. This year's show, an original production called Waking Beauty (using songs from some of the musicals the kids have been introduced to), will be performed in June - with 54 first graders playing various parts, directing, designing the costumes, acting as stagehands...
...Gaza. When dealing with internecine Arab conflict, the Bush Administration has never been able to back the winning team; it invariably attaches unrealistic expectations to moderate parties and underestimates extremist groups. The lesson, says Bilal Saab, a Lebanon expert at the Brookings Institution, is that "you can't pick sides in a civil...
Qahtani's notoriety stems from his part in the 9/11 saga: he had flown into Orlando airport from Europe in August 2001 and was refused entry to the U.S. The U.S. later determined that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had been waiting to pick him up in a rental car at Orlando airport. In short, he was believed to have been the 20th of the 9/11 hijackers. Qahtani was captured in Afghanistan in December...
...being a party maverick and who polls well ahead of the Republican brand. But they do portend the possibility that the Congressional Democratic majority could grow to a size not seen since the 1980s; though it is still early in the cycle, political observers say Democrats hope to pick up one or more Senate seats and as many as a dozen more House seats. Or as Larry Sabato, a political prognosticator at the University of Virginia, put it, "Republicans have to worry that this tide could turn into a tsunami by November...