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...Except for the traditional gold suq, where tourists like to wander, little is left of Old Dubai. But Sheik Mohammed's planners are also taking care of those who crave that experience. Madinat Jumeirah, scheduled for completion later this year, will feature clusters of villas made with a mud-and-beam design to re-create a 19th century Arab city?oh, yes, and two five-star hotels. A country has to have standards, you know...
It’s hilarious to watch the two men impotently muddle around with their pea-sized brains; it’s Abbott and Costello Meet Hamlet, except that neither man has any idea who’s on first. Broadwater’s Guildenstern is earnest and restless, always yammering questions and never getting answers. Hodgson’s Rosencrantz is a layabout twit, his perpetually gaping mouth suggesting a severely inbred bloodline. It is Stoppard’s genius to make these idiots the carriers of a profound existential dread; in Stoppard’s hands, Rosencrantz...
...life, his choices and his principles a more complicated picture than Bush presents and one that the Republicans are sure to caricature. Kerry is a hunter who favors gun control, a Vietnam War hero who came home to protest the war, a former prosecutor who opposes the death penalty except in terrorism cases. His record is, as they say, a target-rich environment...
...that big thinking, al-Qaeda was an inconvenience at best. Strategy so overwhelmed tactical thinking in the Bush Administration that practicalities of any sort-except the military details of an Iraq invasion-were bumped down the ladder to deputies. The terrorist threats that were setting George Tenet's and Dick Clarke's hair on fire in early 2001 took a backseat to "brilliant" strategic notions like responding to the Cole by "doing something about" Saddam Hussein. Even the Aug. 6 memo to the President from the CIA, which was titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.," was seen...
...that the Amsterdam police have recently decided to start using GPS systems to track stolen bicycles. Apparently, the biggest problem is the proliferation of gangs of professional bicycle thieves, who roam the city at night with trucks and load up dozens of pilfered bikes at a time. Except for the whole free love/drug use thing, our Cantabrigian community might be Amsterdam’s kid sibling: Cambridge is the bike theft capital of Massachusetts, and the greater Boston area ranks sixth nationally among the worst cities for bicycle larceny. So I guess I had it coming...