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...ever thought about the first 11 seasons of Encores!, look here. For a 2007 update, here are notes on the three latest shows: Follies, in February, Face the Music in March and a new revue, Stairway to Paradise, devised by Encores! artistic director Jack Viertel and playing, to the usual sold-out houses, through Monday...
...lovely line, and for once her voice, a flat Midwestern twang that sometimes twinges harsh, seemed just right. The crowd, which included a disproportionate number of mothers who had brought their daughters, was very much at ease with the Senator as she managed to convey her usual A-student policy virtuosity in an informal, accessible way. "Wouldn't it be great to have a President who can speak for an hour without notes?" former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a presidential candidate turned Clinton supporter, told the next crowd, assembled in Red Oak despite biblical rains. It was a classic reaction...
...Withdraw the troops from the areas of sectarian conflict like Baghdad, keep a small force fighting al-Qaeda in al-Anbar province, move some troops to the Turkish border, protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and other civilian facilities, maintain a special-operations capability. And then, instead of the usual lip service to training Iraqi forces, she said, "We may also leave some forces to help train the Iraqis if there seems a chance this Iraqi government will get any better. But I'm doubtful about that." Contrast that with, say, John Edwards, who seemed utterly lost when I asked...
...Perhaps, however, the listless Israeli public shares some of the blame with its politicians for the current state of affairs. Thursday night - the beginning of the weekend here - was business as usual for most people in this beach city preparing for the summer season, unmoved by the protest in Rabin Square. "The country has already moved on," said a drinker next to me in a crowded bar on Ben Yehuda street. "No one cares about the war in Lebanon anymore." With suicide bombings down and the stock market up, much of the country seems blissfully undisturbed by the growing chaos...
...technology, having founded a data security company called Ikarus Software in 1986—focused on Google. Google keeps records of every search inquiry made using its search engine with a Google account, including the IP address, according to its Web site. “The problem, as is usual for anyone who has read Orwell’s ‘1984,’” Mayer-Schoenberger said, “is that once anyone has installed a surveillance, someone is always wanting to use it.” In this case, the one who wants...