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...Brooks has concocted are bright and bouncy, but hardly memorable; the song you?re humming on the way out of the theater will most likely be the one you were humming on the way in - "Springtime for Hitler." Great musicals have love stories that are organic to the plot, not tacked on the way the romance between Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) and his buxom Swedish secretary (Cady Huffman) has obviously been here, just because the movie had none. Finally, as sharp as director/choreographer Susan Stroman's work in staging the show has been, her source material were pretty surefire...
...Welcome to the the National Energy Policy Development Group, formed earlier this year by President George W. Bush to plot an energy future that is less reliant on foreign oil and less vulnerable to natural-gas price spikes and shortages. "If these were easy issues, the Clinton Administration would have taken care of them," Vice President Cheney told TIME. His group meets in secret - much to the chagrin of Democrats, who were attacked by the opposition when Hillary Clinton's infamous health-care task force operated behind closed doors. Hillary tried in vain to sort the winners from the losers...
...keep him there through 2008. "My job," Rove told TIME last week, "is to pay attention to the things that affect his political future." That's why, in the first week of Bush's presidency, Rove was bringing political advisers from New Hampshire to the White House to plot strategy for the 2004 presidential race...
...plot lines on the Emmy Award-winning West Wing have so far resembled depictions of politics straight out of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But soon they may look more like Traffic. AARON SORKIN--the White House drama's creator, executive producer and writer--was arrested at a Burbank, Calif., airport-security checkpoint as he was about to board a plane to Las Vegas. Inside his carryon: "illicit mushrooms," according to officials, and not the kind you'd serve at a state dinner. Upon being searched, Sorkin fainted briefly; he was later released on $10,000 bond...
...February, a few weeks after George W. Bush took office, liberal leaders gathered to plot strategy at the National Press Club in Washington. John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO was there, along with activists, think-tank bosses, and Congressmen like Barney Frank and Jesse Jackson, Jr. But one longtime mainstay of the American left was missing...