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...Royal Shakespeare Company as the famous theater troupe goes through the final test runs of Midnight's Children, adapted by Salman Rushdie from his beloved, groundbreaking 1981 novel. Those involved will only be interviewed in a room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says its director Tim Supple. Despite all the hush-hush, there's been no shortage of advance buzz over the play, which opens in London's Barbican Theatre on Jan. 29. Its provenance alone...
...Briton Hadden created in 1923 was a penchant for telling stories through people. Carlyle defined history as "the biography of great men." Similarly, Luce and Hadden's TIME showed that journalism, the rough draft of history, could illuminate momentous events by profiling the gifted and powerful personalities who helped shape them. Nowhere more so than in TIME's selection of a Person of the Year, which has been a highlight since 1927. These iconic figures--statesmen, visionaries, tyrants, unexpected heroes like New York City Mayor RUDY GIULIANI--were singled out because they put a stamp on their world and expressed...
...Best of all, merchants don't pay for prominent placement within results (a common practice at shopping search sites like Dealtime.com and Bizrate.com) Although it's still in beta, or test, mode--and so far lacks the option to list the cheapest results first--Froogle is in good enough shape to help you navigate the postholiday sales from the comfort of home. Maybe you can find something for the cute guy at the office. --By Chris Taylor
...Panhandle from Colorado to secretly scout locations for Global Pork Rind, an outfit based in Tokyo that wants to start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar goes native. Along the way, he and the reader learn about skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have...
...Regardless of the state of the UN inspection process, a war is already taking shape. Indeed, 63 percent of respondents to the TIME/CNN poll indicated a belief that war is inevitable. But given the concerns expressed by American voters and the absence of international consensus over invading Iraq, continuing the UN process while slowly building a case against Saddam - at least in the court of U.S. public opinion, and as far as possible among allies - may be the Administration's most effective strategy for building support for going to war some time next year...