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...Jumping from one crisis to another, Kristina may prove not only too epic but too episodic - and far too dour - for a Broadway audience. The age of the serious musicals, your Les Miz and Phantom of the Opera, ended abruptly when The Producers and Mamma Mia! showed that theatergoers preferred perky, gaudy, old-fashioned musical comedies. But Kristina should find a constituency among those who love hearing wonderful music sung by gifted voices. If any naughty folks last night recorded the show, they should immediately post some of its instant classics: Robert's devastating solo "Gold Can Turn to Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kristina: A New Musical from the ABBA Guys | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...challenge for many people? A lot of people don't want to bother with it. [Many] people have reduced the whole Christian faith to just a relationship with Jesus. That strips the faith of its doctrine, its sovereign nature. The biggest problem is getting people to be serious about what they profess to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Religious Leader Chuck Colson | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...emitter - is the other half. Massively polluting, building a couple of coal-fired power plants every week, China is a convenient scapegoat for American politicians who don't want to make the first move on climate change. But as Hu made clear in his Sept. 22 speech, China is serious about confronting climate change. The country spent an estimated $221 billion in economic stimulus on green initiatives, more than any other nation. At the U.N., in addition to promising to raise its renewable energy share to 15% by 2020, Hu pledged that China would cut its carbon emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wind Shift Coming in the Global-Warming Debate? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...trip to the U.S. in 2006, but it fell on the deaf ears of the Bush Administration. If the Obama Administration revives the NWFZ, it will put pressure on current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has airily called for an end to all nuclear weapons, to get serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Nuclear-Free Middle East a Pipe Dream? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...impression that his ambitious Middle East peace effort had suffered a reversal at the hand of Israel's hawkish Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. "I am not naive," Obama told the gathered world leaders. "I know this will be difficult. But all of us must decide whether we are serious about peace or whether we only lend it lip service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Netanyahu Best Obama in Mideast-Peace Tussle? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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