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...Western conductor would have turned around on the podium to bask in the rapturous ovation of a sold-out house, Lan Shui, the orchestra's Shanghainese music director, immediately hopped down from his perch and threw his arms around the nearest soloists, pushing them forward in a comradely display of humility...
With the handover of power set for June 30, the troubles plaguing the U.S. venture in Iraq remain on harrowing display. In Baghdad, where Bremer's green zone headquarters sit cordoned off and isolated from the rest of the city ("like Xanadu," says a British official), a suicide bombing on Thursday killed 35 Iraqis and wounded at least 138. In all, car bombs killed nearly 90 throughout Iraq last week. For some, images of the continuing carnage, the failure to find illicit weapons and now the 9/11 commission's conclusion that Iraq did not aid al-Qaeda's attack...
...Melbourne galvanize a whole movement around the Down-Under Dal?, but its purchase 51 years later by Sydney art lovers James Agapitos and Ray Wilson began what would become the most comprehensive private collection of Australian Surrealism: some 300 works by 40 artists, a third of them on display in Sydney...
...film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first of three dance sequences, for example, Roshan puts on a display of body popping and moonwalking that banishes the possibility of a self-respecting Indian male lead ever again sashaying suggestively around a pine tree. Likewise, his love interest (Preity Zinta) is an ambitious newsreader unafraid (horror!) to date other men or even (the horror! The horror!) cut her hair short...
Aides say it makes Kerry uncomfortable to find his faith on public display. "For Kerry, his faith, obviously, as with most Catholics, is a private thing," says one. "For this to suddenly become an election issue is something that someone of his instinct for reserve and privacy backs away from...