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...movie. ("What's in the punch?" "Lemons and melons and pears." "Oh my!") It also provides a showcase for two fabulous Broadway stars. Kristin Chenoweth, the Kewpie doll who won a Tony for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, is a perfect delight as Glinda. In the tougher role of Elphaba, Idina Menzel is possibly even better, a mix of vulnerability and feminist passion, with a rock voice to raise the roof. With an awful lot of plot to establish, the show drags in spots. But if every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of Wicked...
...very cautious about jumping to conclusions. What other tools do you need? I don't believe we should allow national control over the sensitive part of the [nuclear] fuel cycle. We need to 'multilaterize' the enrichment of uranium. We also need more countries to sign the additional protocol [allowing tougher inspections]. And we need to address why countries see the nuclear option as so attractive. That is the most difficult. North Korea [for example] is absolutely craving security assurance. This sense of insecurity is what we need to work on, whether the threat is from dictatorships or democracies...
...Sugarman has had an even tougher time at Harvard. Though he came in with very high expectations from coaches, teammates and himself, he has been hampered by injuries all four years and has only started to see significant playing time midway through this season...
Meanwhile, Belichick has been juggling a never-ending string of injuries, using 40 different starters this season. He has been able to guide his team to the same record as Parcells against a much tougher schedule, with New England facing four teams with winning records. The Patriots beat all four...
...against a nearby wall. This morning happy-go-lucky PFC Wyatt meets with Joseph Miller, the hospital's chief prosthetist, who makes wounded soldiers close to whole again with man-made arms and legs. The types of wounds coming back from Iraq--blast and shrapnel injuries--make his job tougher. "Those kinds of injuries mean more infections and multiple surgeries," he says. Wyatt nods; he knows this from experience. He has had 10 surgeries since being wounded, with several inches of thigh carved off in the process. "So I'm going to start off with a mechanical knee?" the young...