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Stro is so schooled in the traditions of musical comedy that from the moment she took over, the whole cast immediately fell under her spell. She brought such energy and joy to every rehearsal and really set the tone. She's the opposite of a strict schoolteacher. She loves pratfalls and pranks, and she encourages comic anarchy. What's not to love...
...Consider the Soviet Union. The sacrifices it made and the victories it won during the war gave the Soviets a place at the top table of nations; Moscow's acquisition of nuclear weapons came later. It was the memory of war that shaped Japan's 1947 constitution and the strict limits it placed on Tokyo's exercise of military power. It was the shame of war that convinced two generations of Germans that their political destiny lay in sublimating national ambitions within a wider European project. And of course, it was the war that first established American economic, political...
...World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando camp near Khost, in Afghanistan. It was run by a professor of Islam Abdur Rab Rasul Sayyaf, whose belief in the strict Wahabi interpretation of Islam found him favor with many wealthy Saudis, including Osama bin Laden, No. 1 on America's list of most dangerous terrorists...
...same day the Senate passed its version of President Bush's education proposal containing strict new provisions for statewide testing, Education Secretary Rod Paige lunched on rubbery chicken and chatted about urban education at an event hosted by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Asked the inevitable question about the growing backlash against high-stakes state exams, Paige paused for a moment and gave a curiously honest answer: "We know there are some bad tests out there." Then he launched into his spiel about the importance of assessments to ensure that no child is left behind...
...Justices Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens dissented, citing previous rulings enforcing the strict separation of church and state. Justice Breyer, who generally joins Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens in opposition to the majority?s more conservative rulings, abandoned his usual post and cast his lot with Justices Scalia, Thomas, O?Connor, Kennedy and Rehnquist...