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...quirky public-access show was picked up by a Canadian cable channel, and he was touted as the country's next Mike Myers. When he auditioned for MTV in 1998, he slathered himself with shaving cream and went into mock convulsions. "That to me was genius," says MTV programming president Brian Graden. "He delivers attitude and pushes buttons, but he provokes people with a smile on his face instead of a mean smirk." Green's self-titled program has since become one of the music channel's top three shows...
...weeks ago, Lars Ulrich, drummer and founder of the band Metallica, unloaded boxes containing the names of 335,000 alleged music pirates in front of the San Mateo, Calif., headquarters of Napster, the software company responsible for the file-sharing program that has made the long-prophesied digital-music revolution a reality. "We're doing this because nobody else has the balls to," says Ulrich of a move that would seem to pit the band against some of its constituency...
...base without severing its traditional roots? Webre is drawing sellout crowds by cannily juxtaposing blue-chip masterpieces by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor and Antony Tudor with new works by such younger choreographers as Nacho Duato and Dwight Rhoden. And his aggressive outreach efforts include Dance D.C., an ambitious pilot program of inner-city public school dance classes, and low-priced "Beer and Ballet" previews held at the company's studios in northwest Washington...
...course, do such potent variables as geography (coastline, access to rivers, ports), climate, religious heritage, sponsorship by superpowers and luck. Political explanations (imperialism, colonialism, racism) have passed out of fashion, if only because, true or not, they represent a protest without a program, a righteousness ultimately feckless...
When Israel was working on a secret nuclear program in the 1960s, satirist Tom Lehrer captured the rationale succinctly: "'The Lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm, but just in case, we better get a bomb." Israel was following the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. India joined the club too, followed eventually by Pakistan. And today North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya are knocking at the door...