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...refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased) pop culture, and from the encroaching, inevitable future...
...Rahman films, plus the ?Vande Mataram? song cycle, instrumental themes and the score of Rahman?s West End musical ?Bombay Dreams.? That?s coming to Broadway this spring, and Rahman is now creating the score for a ?Lord of the Rings? musical due in London next year. But why wait to be mesmerized? Click onto Music Central right now and play, for starters, ?Kal Nahi Tha Wo? (from ?Vishwavidhata?), ?Ishq Bina? (from ?Taal?) and the propulsive chant ?Chaiyya Chaiyya? from both ?Dil Se? and ?Bombay Dreams?). If these don?t land on your top-ten hummable list, consider music therapy...
...certainly Hutton had many other legitimate targets to choose from, including the BBC and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon. But the brisk rectitude Hutton displayed through months of hearings kept open the possibility of a body blow that could force Blair from office. But Blair has never been one to wait for blows to land. In speeches and on TV and radio, he hammered home the virtues of his bill, and by implication his premiership. Last week his aides were planning a blitz of new initiatives in health, crime and transport on the assumption he'd at least stay in office...
...unified in its fight against the central government, the geographically and ethnically fragmented region is not a natural political entity. "The fear is that in the absence of any other battles, they will turn these arms against themselves," says Macuei, the county chairman. In Rumbek, those concerns can wait: what the locals want right now is aid. The World Food Program is fencing off the airstrip, so that planes bearing essential supplies aren't threatened by cows and goats, and building an office and housing complex - with brick this time, not canvas. Says Andrew Gremley, the project's architect: "Permanence...
...alumni said they didn’t receive a response to their letter until yesterday, a wait they say was unacceptable...