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...Mikado,” which tells a story of love, law, and decapitation, is among Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14 light operas of the late 19th century, one of the most popular operas ever written.“The Mikado” is a biting satire lampooning British government and society. We know from the outset that the Japan presented is too much of a caricature for the play to be truly about Japan. Great lengths are taken to assure us that the characters are not really Japanese, who—as the Executioner points out?...
...washed ashore defied tidal patterns. The turbulent sea had also been unusually placid that day. "It didn't add up," Young says. He recalls a search team member telling him, "We shouldn't be looking here. We should be looking in Malaga," the sun-drenched Spanish resort to which British holidaymakers decamp in droves...
...Abrupt departures, meanwhile, appear to be a family trait. According to reports, Darwin's wife Anne, 55, moved to Panama City recently, after selling the second of two seafront properties the couple owned in Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool. That sale fetched more than $600,000. The Guardian, a British newspaper, quoted one of Mrs. Darwin's neighbors as saying she had left the house full of furniture. "It was as if she had gone out shopping. It's just unbelievable...
...reaction by most Sudanese to Gibbons' lenient sentence was mostly benign; still, the government's fears of a larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...
...however, as British foreign minister David Miliband said, "common sense" prevailed. Gibbons was freed and Khartoum remained calm. But rather than view the Gibbons case as yet another example of a radical regime's autocratic abuse, the West would do well to realize that the events in Khartoum expose the government's weakness, and not its strength...