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...produced 60 songs for six shows. But Rodgers didn't lose anything off his fast ball when he teamed with Hammerstein; it is said he composed the entire "Oklahoma!" score in six working days. An impatient man condemned to collaborate with slow pokes, he learned to simmer waiting for Hart to show up from one of his night-crawls...
...Some things are too important not to be talked about,” he said. “I would rather bring up difficult issues that we have to deal with...than to let them simmer in a much more subtle and a much more hurtful manner...
...Kashmiri Muslim. He chose a college near Ahmadabad, the main city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Two months ago, a mob of Muslims torched a train carriage near Ahmadabad, killing 58 Hindus. In the aftermath, nearly a thousand Muslims have been killed in reprisals that fail to simmer down. Qadiri's parents are spending a fortune trying to keep in touch with their son by phone, hoping he won't be the next victim. Qadiri had the luck of the Kashmiris: he found the only other place on the subcontinent as dangerous as his own hometown...
...fighting in Israel and the Occupied Territories continues to simmer, it was heartening to see at least one peaceful compromise—Israel agreed to lift the siege of Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters in exchange for America and Britain monitoring the imprisonment in a Palestinian jail of six wanted...
...arrest. "There's not really any formal organization here," says a worker. "But we still have a good many people with the will to protest." More street action is planned for this week. But if the government gives concessions?releasing the detained leaders, coughing up some cash?things could simmer down fast. As the military police who cruised the streets of two industrial cities last week remind us, workers in China are trying to unite?at the risk of being put in chains...