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...down-at-heel, white-brick building in Clapham, South London, the season's most ambitious theatrical project is nearing completion in absolute secrecy. No outsider is allowed into the rehearsal rooms of the Royal Shakespeare Company as the famous theater troupe goes through the final test runs of Midnight's Children, adapted by Salman Rushdie from his beloved, groundbreaking 1981 novel. Those involved will only be interviewed in a room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says...
...Starbucks coffee shop on Church St. was robbed around midnight on Saturday, according to the Cambridge Police Department...
...warned in a newspaper column, "The defining struggle of the new age [will] be between terrorism and security." Even at his worst, Rushdie is engaging: talking music with Bono (who wanted to discuss politics), hanging out with Van Morrison (who disliked his lousy dancing), trying to get his novel Midnight's Children made for TV (in vain, though a London stage version opens Jan. 18). Or sitting in a heavily guarded New York hotel as poet Allen Ginsberg shows him breathing exercises to relieve fatwa-induced stress. "How extraordinary it was," says Rushdie, "for an Indian by birth...
...Midnight Ride...
...even as the media's clock is perennially poised at a minute before midnight, and a U.S. military buildup around Iraq continues to gather steam, for now the pace and terms of the confrontation are being set by the inspection and disarmament process. And right now, the UN is not rushing to judgment...