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...bleached landscape of American politics, this year's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Rhode Island is grand opera in Technicolor. Laffey is a conservative, supported by a virulently antitax group, the Club for Growth. The incumbent, Lincoln Chafee, is a breathtakingly courageous moderate: he opposed the Bush tax cuts and was the only Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. But there is a lot more going on here than dueling political philosophies. There is a truckload of New England sociology...
...fans are amazing! They want to know what these characters do between the books. That's one of the things that's fun about a series. You get hooked into it, just like a soap opera. You have an emotional investment in those characters. They ask questions like, Does Ranger have chest hair? Well, he does if you want...
...pray what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity? Ken Martin, 69, is fairly sure it's his dancing. The Mackay Choral Society is rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers, and "I can't dance," admits the retired transport-firm manager and future Duke of Plaza-Toro. The whole choir is laughing, "but it's me who's getting it right," he says. "The rest of them are wrong...
...dressed in the bush uniform of thick check lumberjack shirts or denim, but it is the young girl's outfit that catches the eye. She is nonchalantly wearing a plunging bra under a tiny knitted opera jacket, and around her hips is a sarong made, it appears, out of a doll's handkerchief. By her accent she is from some Nordic land, but you sense the locals wouldn't welcome an outsider's attempt to chat...
...Back! Gentlemen, start your windmills Rock-opera fans, rejoice: in September, the Who will launch its first world tour in more than 20 years. (Tickets go on sale this week.) In October, the legends release their first album--tentatively titled Who 2--since...