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...fourth annual Comedy for a Cause was, as expected, a success. Handpicked audience members gave lap-dances on stage, raffle-winners took home prizes, and the somber statues in Sanders Theater frowned upon the irreverence...
...against. The number of his Reform Party allies in the state government is exactly zero. During the campaign, when he was asked how, if elected, he would deal with Democratic and Republican legislators, Ventura would roll up a sleeve, flex a bicep and rumble, "This is how." Good theater, but not a terribly plausible plan for running a government...
...long last, the Republican Party had nominated its first baby boomer for the presidency, and the man they had chosen was no more culturally 'with it' than Bob Dole, the septuagenarian previous nominee, had been," New York Times correspondent Frank Bruni writes. Bush viewed the musical Cats as modern theater at its finest ... and openly admitted that martial artist Chuck Norris was his favorite film actor. (Source: Bruni's Ambling into History...
Imagine sitting down in a theater, popcorn in hand. The lights dim, Kung-Fu Panda reminds you to silence your cell phone, and the previews start. But instead of the new Saw flick, a trailer for Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons...
...ground in Iraq that determines the future of the U.S. military mission there. For one thing, the fragile calm in Iraq coincides with an increasingly perilous Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, raising pressure on the U.S. to divert more combat resources from its over-stretched military into that theater - an expanded military commitment favored by both John McCain and Barack Obama. Sending more troops to Afghanistan will require drawing down in Iraq...