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...obsession with all things natural and New Age. Not even the medieval English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheatfields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kinds of bohemian businesses normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods...
...with all things natural and New Age. Not even the medieval English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheat fields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kind of bohemian business normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods. Twenty years ago, Totnes' idea of radical was reduced-fat cream. Now, a stroll through its Tudor-period Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style...
...patrician stage manner might seem out of place among all those urban, lumpen actors with revolutionary dreams - Luther and Stella Adler, Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Bobby Lewis, Clifford Odets, Jules (later John) Garfield - but the Group needed a leading-man figure, and Kirkland filled the bill. In ?Men in White,? he played the doctor role that Gable would take in the MGM film adaptation the following year. He appeared in Odets? ?Till the Day I Die? and in the title role of ?Case of Clyde Griffiths,? an adaptation of ?An American Tragedy? staged by Lee Strasberg. After leaving...
...anything, Sadr's decision to confront Allawi and the Americans from inside the holy city reflects a canny, and often underestimated political instinct on the part of the populist cleric. Ever since Baghdad fell to U.S. forces in April 2003, Sadr has parlayed his strong following among the Shiite urban poor and the growing resentment toward the U.S. to his own advantage. And his previous showdown with the U.S. - last April, when they tried to arrest him in connection with a warrant issued by an Iraqi judge - had showed that tangling with the Americans actually boosted, rather than undermined...
...worth remembering that even as Sadr makes blood-and-fire speeches about fighting to the death in Najaf, his militia in the holy city is pretty much an expeditionary force. Although they have a presence in every Shiite urban community, the Sadrists' organizational base is in the Sadr City slums of East Baghdad, where their capacity for challenging the authority of the U.S.-backed government may be even greater. Following new attacks by Sadr supporters on U.S. and government targets in the capital late last week, the government declared a curfew in Sadr City - but reports suggest it has been...