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...shrewd and rollicking account of a place that rose to glory as a playground for all classes, skidded into a chaos of drugs and porn, and has come back as a family fun center. Traub has a high time flying us through the Square's gamy saga, from the chorus-girl revues of a century ago to the corporate wheeler dealings that replaced peep shows with The Lion King and the world's largest Toys...
...allies launched the war in Iraq. They deposed and eventually captured a dictator, but the country has fallen into a prolonged state of anarchy, during which 558 U.S. troops have died along with 101 other foreign soldiers and an estimated 10,000 Iraqi civilians. Americans have mostly watched the saga unfold from afar, but for Iraqis the car bombs, shootings and roadblocks have become part of daily life, a regimen in which new opportunities coexist with the most terrifying of dangers...
...crushing competition from Verizon and others entering the long-distance market. There probably isn't enough business for all three dedicated long-distance firms: AT&T, Sprint and MCI. A spiffed-up MCI coming out of bankruptcy court could quickly become takeover bait. And that would end this corporate saga pretty much where it began. --By Daniel Kadlec. Reported by Dody Tsiantar and Barbara Kiviat/New York and Alice Jackson Baughn/Brookhaven
...famed British label 4AD, alma mater of the Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series,” a smattering of songs scattered through his albums that told the epic saga of a Florida couple on the brink of divorce. Tallahassee’s follow-up, We Shall All Be Healed, is a similar album of cleanly recorded story-telling that inches the Goats closer to widespread popularity...
...some 300,000 lines?roughly 20 times the length of Homer's Odyssey?making it one of the longest literary works in existence. The creation myth of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, I La Galigo (which takes its name from one of its protagonists) is a stirring saga of gods and demons and heroes, love sacred and profane, and the eternal struggle between good and evil...