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...firestorm of outrage provoked by the Abu Ghraib pictures seemed to catch U.S. officials by surprise. Army General John Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command that oversees Iraq, told TIME that after learning of the abuses in January, he sent word of it to General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though military investigators had been aware for months that graphic photos existed, Pentagon officials showed no particular urgency in finding out how bad they were or informing anyone else about them. When Myers learned several weeks ago that CBS was about to air the pictures...
Forget bullet trains. The U.S. is decades behind global standards and will need $250 billion over 20 years to catch...
...Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system canceled classes, and began moving to send children to other schools around the country. Moyal Eli, the town mayor, said that militants time their attacks in the morning in order to catch students on their way to school. "They know our schedule," he said. "My biggest nightmare is that a rocket would hit a yellow...
...nobody, critic or informed amateur, is grousing by the end of the show, when most of the principals join in the 1951 skit-song "Catch Our Act at the Met," by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne. A high-art parody that's up there with Chuck Jones' Daffily Wagnerian "What's Opera, Doc?", the number combines parody, musical virtuosity and about a million laffs. As most every Encores! show does, it sends the audience out of Ciiy Center levitating on a contact high with the best in musical theater. At Encores!, the old shows are always loved...
...popular holiday destinations they might not be able to visit otherwise. Putting into port at Aegean islands like Mykonos and Paros--or undiscovered isles like Folegandros--travelers have an afternoon of fun ashore and then party the night away before setting sail for the next destination. What's the catch? Passengers must book at least two nights on any predetermined route, and everything on board--even clean sheets--comes with a surcharge...