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This spring, Johnson will teach a lecture course in constitutional history, a seminar in inter-American relations, and a section of the History sophomore tutorial. In a bizarre twist, he will be living in Quincy House—where he lived as an undergraduate...
...News employees acknowledged for the first time last week that there may be problems with the authenticity of the memos. "It's up to us to get to the bottom of legitimate questions that have been raised," CBS News President Andrew Heyward told TIME. Then, in a surprising twist, Howard pulled the Administration back into the fiasco on Friday. "If the White House had just raised an eyebrow--they didn't have to say they were forgeries--but if there was any hint that there was a question, that would have sent us back," says Howard. The morning the show...
...spooky power - not to mention the box-office returns - of Phantom. Or so his followers hoped. And it's easy to see why Lloyd Webber fans thought The Woman in White would be a return to phantasmagorical form. Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel is a Victorian chiller with a twisted yet strangely hypnotic villain. If that doesn't sound familiar enough, the bad guy is played by Michael Crawford, the original Phantom. So high are hopes for this show that long-runner Les Misérables was evicted from the 1,400-seat Palace Theatre (proprietor: Lloyd Webber) to make...
...South Korea relies on atomic energy for 40% of its electricity, which translates into a vast industry of power plants, government-run research labs?and a whole lot of hot fuel rods. But it is also a major player in the six-nation talks that are trying to arm-twist North Korea into shuttering its own uranium- and plutonium-based nuclear-weapon programs. After hearing the South's explanations, Pyongyang quickly trumpeted a "double standard." Then came news that the South had noticed an enormous explosion in North Korea last week, though the source was unclear...
...need to be both more patient with people who are making these early steps, less critical of every twist and turn ... and more humble about how long it has taken us to get to a multiethnic democracy that works." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, National Security Adviser, on the doubts being raised about the Iraq...