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...Best Actress, Musical Kelli O'Hara, a favorite of mine, didn't seem quite right as Nellie in South Pacific. But Patti LuPone, no favorite of mine, got the role of her life in Gypsy and did wonders with...
...seems most Zimbabweans are very fearful right now, but some seem to be talking about a full-on insurrection. Look, those are just speculations. The people have no capacity to resist an armed dictatorship, and the dictatorship is not yet ready to negotiate. So I think the only thing with such a stalemate is that the people will prevail. That's the only thing...
...Britain was to return to war, it was not the cause of World War II any more than the breakdown in talks with Iran could be said to be the cause of Tehran's intensification of its uranium enrichment. The same people who rightly charge Chamberlain with underestimating Hitler seem to believe (naively) that a British threat of war would have rid the dictator of his desire to bring German minorities under one roof and wipe out European Jewry...
...must repeat again and again, but science increasingly is learning something from them. A generation ago, the paradigm-shifting understanding of chaos theory revealed the power of disorder in meteorology, marketing, plate tectonics and more. Similarly, investigators across the social and scientific spectrums are today studying how systems that seem simple or complex may be just the opposite--and how that fact can expand our understanding of our world. "Ask me why I forgot my keys today, and the answer may be that something was on my mind," says neuroscientist Chris Wood of the Santa Fe Institute...
...Look at the Map An old-fashioned road atlas is a good Michelin guide for three-star running mates. The right choice can add balance to a nominee whose roots may seem a tad too effete to go over well in the heartland - or add some coastal glitz to a rural candidate's prairie-flat steadiness. As it happens, the last two candidates to make their picks with geography clearly in mind - John Kennedy in 1960 and Michael Dukakis in 1988 - were both from Massachusetts. And they both picked Texas Senators - Lyndon Johnson and Lloyd Bentsen - for the second spot...