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Broadway keeps bumping along from crisis to crisis. First came Sept. 11 and the drastic drop in tourist traffic that followed. Then, last month, a musicians' strike shut down all of Broadway's musicals for a weekend, just when a postwinter surge in business was expected. Now there's that inconvient war in Iraq, which is distracting theatergoers and depressing the tourist business once again. You know times are tough on Broadway when "Urban Cowboy", the spring's big new musical (at the Broadhurst Theater), got scared out of its boots by a slew of tepid reviews and announced...
There is something magical and exciting about the vicarious pleasure fans receive from watching sports. We need the games to continue for the soldiers and for ourselves. In fact, sports are more important now than ever. The “positives” of life cannot shut down in war. For some, sports are like oxygen, especially in the United States among 18-to-24-year-olds. A great deal of our soldiers fall into this demographic. Our troops not only miss their families—they also miss entering office pools and rooting for the underdogs in the NCAA...
...against the process—we’re worried about the number of resources that the university has had to put into it,” he said. “If you have glitches in the system, you can’t fix them if you shut the system down...
...followers of the cult of the plan,” said Peabody parent John Rutter. “This plan is musical chairs. The music stops and the Peabody School sits down somewhere. This is not a community effort. It’s more like ‘shut up and now get the hell out of the building...
...officer was sent to Lowell House to investigate a report of a radio playing in an unoccupied room. The officer entered the room and shut off the alarm clock radio...