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Imagine a library without the works of James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Sean O'Casey, John Synge, Liam O'Flaherty, George Bernard Shaw, Brendan Behan, Frank O'Connor, William Butler Yeats and Christy Brown...
...course, eminently lovable: melodious, harmonious, beautiful, an escape from all the ills that flesh is heir to. "The only music yet written that would not sound out of place in the mouth of God," George Bernard Shaw once wrote. But each age hears the Mozart it wants to hear, and today's audiences enjoy not only the exquisite serenity of this music but also its emotions, its subtlety and wit. Indeed, Peter Sellars' "modernized" stagings of the operas demonstrate a very contemporary sense of anxiety and unhappiness. Still, the music remains joyous and so eminently worth celebrating...
...Brokaw was envious as well as curious. "How did CNN manage to stay on the air?" he asked Bernard Shaw, the cable network's anchorman, in an unusual intermural interview. Shaw hesitated. "Let me take a pass on your question," he said. "The next time I see you I'll explain...
...professional jealousy was understandable. The vivid first-person accounts that Shaw and his colleagues transmitted during the initial bombing of the Iraqi capital -- while other reporters in Baghdad were cut off from the world -- amounted to the TV coup of the week. The feat was possible because CNN was able to gain phone access that the Iraqis had denied other news organizations. The three major U.S. networks were left fuming. NBC reporter Tom Aspell complained on air that Baghdad had given CNN "preferential treatment...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...