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...play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover - a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama is that art, like humanity, may be fickle and confusing, but it is fundamentally good, and worth admiring. The play almost succeeds in this ambitious task...
...duality invites the scorn of those who regard any attempt to dabble beyond the boundaries of conventional science as a waste of time. But that's the point, say others: NDEs don't fit into our current understanding of the brain. They shouldn't happen, yet they do. The task is to build new models in which they...
...Nable, who cracked first grade in the 1990s, brings an ex-footballer's knowledge and instincts to the task. The players in the film look the part: solid and gnarled, though not chiseled like the pros of today. "It was the aesthetic of the players back then," says Nable, "that even if they were very young, they looked like men." The clubs are real, but the characters don't invoke the names of champions of the era: there are no excruciating pleas to "Stop Reddy" or "Thump Sterling." Sprawling Henson Park, frozen in time on the fringe...
...Republicans, meanwhile, are tripping over themselves to get away from Craig as yet another scandal risks further depressing their base. The effect of the Craig scandal "will be to intensify their anti-gay rhetoric," said Becky Dansky, federal legislative director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, pointing to the contrast between the treatment of Craig and that of Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who admitted to being involved with the infamous D.C. Madam. "Vitter received a standing ovation from his party caucus; Senator Craig is immediately forced out of his committee positions just because of the gender involved...
...Allawi's bid to become Iraq's Prime Minister again has received an endorsement from an unexpected source: the Ba'ath Party. A spokesman for the exiled leadership of Saddam Hussein's old party told TIME that Allawi "is the best person at this time to be given the task of ruling Iraq." He said he hoped that Allawi would pave the way for the Ba'ath Party to "return to the political life of Iraq, where we rightfully belong...