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...There's no shortage of literature about gulag life, of course. But a musical? A rehearsal in Seoul earlier this month confirmed suspicions that Jung, who defected to South Korea from the North in 1994, is not looking to delight audiences with the kind of toe-tapping jollity dished up on Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight...
...favored to win this week's women's event.) The 23-year-old Plushenko, whose choice of the Godfather theme for his long program was rather cheeky at a Games hosted by Italy, was equally bold on the ice, opening his routine with an awesome combination of a quadruple toe loop, a triple toe loop and a double toe loop, followed by a triple Axel-double toe. Although his athleticism and signature Sex Bomb exhibition routines?he skates to the Tom Jones song wearing a skin-colored muscle suit?have made Plushenko a pin-up star back home, the Russian...
...Thatcher: The Musical, opening next month in Britain, an all-female cast will sing its way through the life of former Prime Minister MARGARET THATCHER, 80. The Foursight Theatre troupe plans to tour the nation with Iron Lady--inspired ditties like The Cabinet Shuffle. Nothing says toe tapper like the champion of free markets...
...Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon pays to place both news reports and opinion pieces in the Iraqi media. Some articles are ghost-written by American soldiers and then planted in the Iraqi press; other payments are made to Iraqi journalists who write their own copy but toe the American line...
...demonstrations in '63 were the first events that turned me political. I was 16, and I had just gotten to the point where I was saying, well, gosh, when I get impossibly old and secure, like 30, maybe this is an important enough issue that I would stick my toe in the water and try to help, and then lo and behold, I look on TV, and there are eight-year-old girls-mostly girls-marching into those dogs and fire hoses and then not turning around. I'm saying, well, what's making them do it, now? They...