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Before the Internet boom, elaborate mysteries like Heroes and Lost were rare and short-lived (think Twin Peaks). The reason: they ask a lot of you. You have to be attentive to tiny details. If you miss an episode, you're off the train. Now when fans can rewind and rewatch and discuss endlessly in blogs and chat rooms, these shows can be more challenging, sprawling and complex. And Internet buzz is crucial to their success. The Web taketh from Heroes, no question, but it also giveth considerably...
...American musicals. The jazzy, modernist, Gershwinesque rhythms of some of Bernstein's music - "The Jet Song," "America" - are still striking and original. But is there a duller love ballad in any major American musical than "Maria" ("Maria! I've just met a girl named Maria"), or its Muzak-ready twin brother, "Tonight" ("Tonight, tonight/ There's only you tonight")? Who would know that the lyricist would grow up to be Stephen Sondheim...
...some of India's more fierce internal conflicts: "Forecasts have predicted that India's twin forces of a free market and a secular state will ensure uninterrupted growth and a steady move toward liberal economic ideas. But I have noticed that people outside the country often sound far surer about where we are headed than Indians themselves. In this, India is a bit like a Monet painting - from a distance, the picture seems clear. It presents an image of an increasingly liberal, outward looking country which is eager for the opportunities that are now within its grasp. But close...
...This isn't the first time an identical twin has proved impossible to pin down. The genetic material can thwart paternity tests if both twins claim - or deny - fathering a child. In the U.S., a jury in a rape trial in Houston deadlocked in 2005 when the DNA recovered at the crime scene matched identical twins who had kidnapped their victim together. A year earlier in Boston, a suspected rapist blamed his identical twin when confronted with the matching DNA. Although he was already serving a sentence for a rape conviction, the jury could not agree on a verdict...
...mark that bested the January “Iron Man” meet’s eventual first place finisher by a tenth of a second.But there was a time when first place showings weren’t so unexpected. Taking the pool for nearly two decades alongside his twin brother Bill, Dan enjoyed more than his share of success prior to this winter. Raised in a family that included four male swimmers, Bill and Dan showed a drive to dominate the pool from the moment they hit the water.“We always had a good family dynamic...