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...middle class into delicious and troubling comedy. He's been at it since 1960, when, at 26, he and three other Oxbridge wits wrote and performed the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Bennett turned 70 a few weeks ago, and marked the milestone with a grand new play - his longest (at nearly three hours) and funniest - called The History Boys. Opening to critical raves, it is the season's sold-out hit at the National Theatre in London and has already been set for a Broadway production. By Bennett standards, that's almost gaudy. In a British grammar school, perhaps...
...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called the Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto ... [It is] the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fastests and slowests ... Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter ... [They] comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in 110 countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points ... And when all else fails, they turn to an army...
...There was no word back from the visa counselor for the longest time,” he says. Government officials eventually told him that a “visa-issuing freeze” prevented any student visas being issued to Malaysian scholars. “[The U.S.] just stopped issuing visas for a couple of months,” he says...
...LONGEST-RUNNING NIGHTCLUBS, DANGERFIELD'S. HOW DID YOUR CLUB MANAGE TO SURVIVE WHEN SO MANY OTHER COMEDY CLUBS SHUT THEIR DOORS? The smorgasbord. No, seriously, it's an old-fashioned nightclub, it's comfortable, it's run right. We have a lot of high schools that hold their proms there...
...been cued by revelations of the abuse of military detainees, but it is driven by a deeper grievance - the idea that the Defense Secretary is the personification of a political-military strategy in Iraq that has plunged America into a Middle East quagmire. Even as Secretary Rumsfeld faced his longest day in back-to-back grillings by members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Friday, the challenge facing tens of thousands of American troops on the ground in Iraq continued to grow, with little sign of respite or resolution. The costs of "Operation Iraqi Freedom...