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...about is deeply personal. It’s a story of a man and his father, a man and his many girlfriends, a man dealing with his obsession with food, a man dealing with his religion or lack of religion.” Still, Misha’s foremost problem is one of gluttony, and his constant consumption becomes emblematic of the consumer culture that surrounds him in every country he travels to—including our own.“There was a weird synchronicity between what I was writing and what was happening around...
...held rehearsal was a random little room in Lowell. The biggest thing is that we need dance space. We also practiced in renovated squash courts; we couldn’t find the light so we rehearsed in the dark for 15 minutes. There was also the problem of strict copyright laws. Quinn: We have taken special measures to acquire rights to Sally’s big numbers. Emerson [College] actually did a production in the fall, and they couldn’t perform those songs, so we requested rights to them. Luckily for the audience, the duo?...
...attacking the United States if he found out we are spending more on intelligence than everyone thinks? I called around to check with my former colleagues. "Who cares whether the intelligence budget is $25 or $75 billion?" a recently retired CIA officer told me, bringing up only one real problem that bothers him. "The entire budget is being flushed down the drain - into contractors' pockets...
...colleague went on to say that the problem is most evident in Iraq. Today in Baghdad a private contracting company, which I will leave unnamed, decides where CIA officers can go and whom they can see. This may sound like inside baseball to a lot of people, but what it means is the contractor is in charge, essentially determining who the CIA's sources are. And the contractor makes no bones about it: his goal is to hold on to his contract, not whether the CIA gets Iraq right...
...first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from...