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Saddam Hussein is feeling lucky. As well he might, since rising oil prices and Israeli-Palestinian violence have combined to turbo-charge his campaign to smash international sanctions against his country. Iraq Airways on Sunday flew its first domestic flights over the "no-fly zones" maintained by the U.S. and Britain since the Gulf War, and it repeated the gesture on Monday. Official spin from the White House: We have no problem with civilian air traffic; those zones are to protect Kurds and Shiites from Iraqi military planes. Still, nobody doubts the significance of the gesture. Not when airliners carrying...
...want the world to come to you, look no further than the Loeb. Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, the smash hit of London's West End, continues its run in the Experimental Theater. For more information, check out the review on today's theater page...
...Even then he was a person who brought people together," R.R. said. "He could work with the guys who liked to throw lamps and the guys who liked to smash tables...
...issues such as homosexuality in "Beautiful Boy" and war in "On D-Day," but even the best intentions do not make for great lyrics. And regrettably, the songs on Never Enough Time stumble through incoherent, seemingly random lines like "A rock thrown through/The rear window/They took my socks" in "Smash the Car" and "I keep trying to clean my room/There's a coffee cup in my underwear drawer" in the title track. So while surely a pleasant enough listen in Club Passim or on a walk through the Square, Nate Borofsky's Never Enough Time will likely be relegated...
...this happen? What brought Palestinians and Israelis to a place where communicating a point entails raw violence? How did seven painstaking years of building toward peace smash apart in two weeks? Why did Barak and Arafat, who had just taken the unprecedented step of dining together at Barak's home three weeks ago, preside over the worst bloodshed between their peoples in three decades? What went so awfully, fatally wrong...