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...exposition"), and the promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon of a greedy corporation oppressing the masses. But when was the last time even sophomoric left-wing agitprop was the subject for a musical--much less one that's so entertaining? The vest-pocket production has outsize energy, as does the terrific, beefy Kurt Weill-like score by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. They aim for comic-operatic heights and keep the audience soaring...
...when the public got its first good look at Kim, as dozens of reporters and photographers staked out Narita airport for a glimpse of the seldom-seen son of the Dear Leader. As he trudged across the tarmac, Kim turned out to be a pudgy man in glasses, brown vest, Rolex watch and gold rings?bearing a striking, if somewhat more modern, resemblance to Kim Jong Il. In South Korea, some suggested he looked like his grandfather Kim Il Sung...
...angry, poor people enraged at Arroyo's brass-knuckled arrest the previous week of Estrada, their former champion. At dawn on Tuesday, a 40,000-strong mob laid siege to Arroyo's rambling presidential palace, forcing her to scurry from room to room for safety, sometimes donning a bulletproof vest. Was she frightened? "Maybe for a split second," she said...
...coup plotters also underestimated the pig iron beneath the petite 54-year-old President's bulletproof vest. "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," Arroyo told TIME last week. As the protesters occupied EDSA, Arroyo set up her own war room in the MalacaNang Palace. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and several thousand Elite marines and riot police were brought in to guard the riverside lanes around MalacaNang. They unspooled kilometers of razor wire around the palace; under the venerable trees of its garden marines dug in with .50-caliber machine guns. "Let them come. I'll crush them...
...statement, MIT President Charles M. Vest said Bacow “will be an outstanding university president.” He credited Bacow with numerous achievements, including “an enhanced learning environment, design of a new vision for our residential system, new rigor to campus space planning and major institutional partnerships with universities and industry worldwide...