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Today's most popular shows take no such chances. Perhaps there is something right about a season in which Frank Loesser, dead since 1969, has as many shows on Broadway as Lloyd Webber. But there is also something very wrong. Not one recent main-stem show has been set in today's America or taken inspiration from the best of today's pop music. Broadway is now the museum of the American musical. Guys and Dolls, for all its snazz and lilt, is a faithful revival of Loesser's 1950 hit. Crazy for You is a jolly update of Gershwin...
Marvin T. Runyon may never get his mug on a commemorative stamp, but in just one month on the job as Postmaster General, he has already had a bigger impact on the Postal Service's bottom line than the popular Elvis issue. Last Friday, in a dramatic bid to stem 10 straight years of red ink and bureaucratic bloat, he announced cuts of about 30,000 managerial jobs -- including more than half of the top 42 posts -- over the next three months, and a major restructuring of the way the service...
...small show of defiance as he walked out of the Chilean embassy in Moscow after seven months spent in asylum there. Only a small crowd of supporters were on hand as he left for Berlin, where he can expect to stand trial on 49 charges of manslaughter. The indictments stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified with mines and trip-wired "scatter guns" in the 1970s. The communist leader's extradition was the result of months of arduous negotiations between Germany, Russia and Chile...
...conflicts. Enmity between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, makes each group feel that the other must be destroyed so that what belongs to "us" can be taken back from "them." to us, it seems clear that the Serbian aggressors are in the wrong--but might not this conviction stem from guilt over America's own attempted to subsume minorities into a larger whole...
This realization altered the rhetoric and to a degree the actions of the participants. The delegation from India, which had produced some of the more provocative observations about the sins and obligations of the rich nations, announced that it would sign the biodiversity agreement, helping stem the brewing revolt by the poor nations. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee noted that a tacit understanding was developing between family planning advocates and the Catholic Church that would allow poor nations to take more aggressive steps on the vital question of population. Participants of all stripes emerged from meetings with smiles pasted...