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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 11:48:38 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Bush, Resetting Agenda,
	Says U.S. Must Cut Reliance on Oil
Message-ID: <20060201193450.AB73183D1B@lax-gw03.mroute.net>

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WASHINGTON | February 1, 2006
Bush, Resetting Agenda, Says U.S. Must Cut Reliance on Oil
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ADAM NAGOURNEY
The president said "America is addicted to oil" and set a goal of replacing 75 percent of the nation's Mideast oil imports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/politics/01bush.html?emc=eta1



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Date: Wed Feb  1 11:51:18 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: The State of Energy
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OPINION | February 1, 2006
Editorial: The State of Energy

President Bush's remarks on energy independence in his State of the Union speech were insufficient.
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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 11:52:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: The State of the Union: A Citizen's Rebuttal
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OPINION | February 1, 2006
Guest Columnist: The State of the Union: A Citizen's Rebuttal
By SARAH VOWELL
Let us come together to celebrate the sole issue we, as a nation, agree on: Anderson Cooper sure has swell hair.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/opinion/01vowell.html?emc=eta1




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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 11:53:26 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Didn't See It Coming, Again
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OPINION | February 1, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Didn't See It Coming, Again
By MAUREEN DOWD
Fundamentalists in America like to vote for President Bush, but elsewhere they're violently opposing him.
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From rpc06512 at sbcglobal.net  Wed Feb  1 12:32:49 2006
From: rpc06512 at sbcglobal.net (Robert Camuto)
Date: Wed Feb  1 12:47:08 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Benefit Jan 31
In-Reply-To: <6291891.1138778960095.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <20060201203249.58150.qmail@web81705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

It truly was an amazing experience.  Getting to sing that incredible score with all of those incredible singers was as much fun as the Be-In this past September.  The audience response was amazing considering that more than half of them weren't even born when HAIR was playing.  The food was great, two of the opening acts were brilliant and the HAIR band was so inspiring that it made us sing even better than we thought we could.  I was so nervous at first but Zenobia Conkerite's soulful version of Aquarius made my adrenaline pump and the next thing I knew the show was over.  Special treats of the evening besides Ms. Zenobia were, Dale Soules' "MC duties and here wonderful version of "AIR", Ron Shetler's very powerful "WHERE DO I GO", and Ula Hedwig's' amazing "EASY TO BE HARD".  Ula filled in for the ailing Heather Mac Rae and got one rehearsal on the day of the show.  Marjorie Mudra Lipari and Debbie Andrews did Frank Mills beautifully as a duet, and original cast members Nat
 alie
 Mosco, Donnie Burks, Ms Lipari and Robert "I" Rubinsky (formally know as Diane Keaton, and who FINALLY has gotten his Turrets Syndrome under control) led us in 3500.  The other big surprise was the appearance of Tom O'Horgan right before the HAIR cast started it's portion of the show.  The show was dedicated to the late Coretta Scott King and the late Wendy Wasserstein. The cast was also given the chance to mention the names of other departed tribe members at that point.  It was a wonderful and emotional evening and I'm sorry it's over.

"sherwin@aceross.com" <sherwin@aceross.com> wrote:
      Yeah , the rehersals were astounding BUT the benifit blew the roof off The 
place like a nuclear LOVE bomb and everybody was dancing with everybody on 
stage and off , letting the sun shine in . 

It was high , loving and so right on ! 

People were hugging and kissing till the CODA and the street were empty ! 








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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 12:58:28 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 13:15:02 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Annie Golden
Message-ID: <20060201.125915.14160.211472@webmail24.lax.untd.com>

Speaking of Annie Golden, I did a double-take recently as I recognized her in the cast of "The American Astronaut" (2001; (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243759/).  This B-movie-like, black-&-white, sci-fi/comedy was playing as backdrop at "Asbury Lanes" -- a bowling alley/punk-rock/rockabilly/cult-movie night club near the beach in Asbury Park (highly recommended for you when you find yourself down the Jersey Shore -- http://www.asburylanes.com/).

Anyway, if you want to follow Annie Golden, see "The American Astronaut."

Happy Groundhog Day!

tioga joe

==================================

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:55:04 -0800
From: "Nathan Sanders" <orbit@peoplepc.com>

If anyone has an email address for Annie Golden, I'd love to get in touch 
with her again. Annie did a production of my play, "The Sugar Bean 
Sisters" 
in New York at the WPA Theatre 10 years ago and I've lost touch with her 
over the years.

If anyone does know how to contact Annie, please forward this email to her!

Thanks!

Nathan

Visit the official website of "The Sugar Bean Sisters" & "The 
Amazing 
Adventures of Della, The Dwarf" -
Go to: www.nathansanders.net


 
 
 



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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 13:00:44 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 13:16:04 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: History Is So Important
Message-ID: <20060201.130053.14160.211498@webmail24.lax.untd.com>

Dear Michael,

Speaking of ... ("History is so important"), check out this short 
flick re
"Vietnam and Iraq" I was alerted to today:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8774081378744375447&q=vietnam

IMHO, this would make a great, quick orientation for a new, young cast of
HAIR, to demonstrate just how vital, how timely, how NOT merely a
period-piece is HAIR today.  HAIR, more than ever, reminds us why we must
exercise our American Constitutional right to question authority.  Certain
lessons of our Vietnam War experience apparently were NOT learned.  As has
been warned, we can be doomed to repeat history.  Some suggest, as does this
video commentator, that we are indeed now repeating history.

History IS so important.

"When will they ever learn?"

Sibley J. Smith, Jr., Director of Education
Vietnam Era Educational Center at the
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
Garden State Parkway, Exit 116
1 Memorial Lane, P.O. Box 648
Holmdel (Monmouth County), NJ 07733
1-800-648-VETS  www.njvvmf.org

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To: "SPECIAL from Michael Butler" <michael@michaelbutler.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:22 PM
Subject: History Is So Important

>
> Michael Butler's Blog
>
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/mbblog.html
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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 13:06:20 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 13:21:22 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Sheehan at State of the Union
Message-ID: <20060201.130625.14160.211555@webmail24.lax.untd.com>

Check out (below) Cindy Sheehan's own account of what really happened when she was arrested before last night's State of the Union address was given.  

tioga joe

Cindy Sheehan | What Really Happened

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020106Z.shtml

Cindy Sheehan: As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press (Shocker). So this is what really happened.




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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 13:10:28 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 13:25:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Film about the G.I. Movement against the War in Vietnam
Message-ID: <20060201.131041.14160.211593@webmail24.lax.untd.com>

FYI, for a recently made flick about the G.I. Movement against the War in Vietnam go to http://www.sirnosir.com/.

Peace,

Tioga Joe


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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 13:17:13 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 13:32:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Military Records in National Politics
Message-ID: <20060201.131738.14160.211692@webmail24.lax.untd.com>

Am passing this along.  No, I did not personally fact-check to confirm this info.  Although with a quick perusal, I did recognize some military records I know to be true.  Anyway, for your consideration, see below.

Peace,

Tioga Joe

=============================

  Military records:

Democrats:
  * Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
  * David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
  * Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
  * Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army
  journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
  * Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
  * Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
  * John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat 
V,
  Purple Hearts.
  * Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
  * Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star,
  Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress.
  * Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
  * Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
  * Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
  * Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign
  ribbons.
  * Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze
  Stars,and Soldier's Medal.
  * Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and
  Legion of Merit.
  * Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
  >
  * Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze 
Star
  with Combat

  * Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
  * Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
  * Chuck Robb: Vietnam
  * Howell Heflin: Silver Star
  * George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
  * Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but
  received #311.
  * Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
  * Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
  * John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and AirMedal with 18 Clusters.
  * Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul
  Wallenberg.


Republicans -- and these are the guys sending people to war:
  * Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
  * Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
  * Tom Delay: did not serve.
  * Roy Blunt: did not serve.
  * Bill Frist: did not serve.
  * Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
  * Rick Santorum: did not serve.
  * Trent Lott: did not serve.
  * John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
  * Jeb Bush: did not serve.
  * Karl Rove: did not serve.
  * Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max
  Cleland's
  patriotism.
  * Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
  * Vin Weber: did not serve.
  * Richard Perle: did not serve.
  * Douglas Feith: did not serve.
  * Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
  * Richard Shelby: did not serve.
  * Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
  * Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
  * Christopher Cox: did not serve.
  * Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
  * Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
  * George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got
  assigned to Alabama
  so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed
  to show up for
  required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
  * Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non- combat role 
making
  movies.
  * B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in 
Korea.
  * Phil Gramm: did not serve.
  * John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit,
  Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
  * Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
  * John M. McHugh: did not serve.
  * JC Watts: did not serve.
  * Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although continued in NFL 
for 8
  years as
  quarterback.
  * Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
  * Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
  * George Pataki: did not serve.
  * Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
  * John Engler: did not serve.
  * Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
  * Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

  Pundits & Preachers
  * Sean Hannity: did not serve.
  * Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
  * Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
  * Michael Savage: did not serve.
  * George Will: did not serve.
  * Chris Matthews: did not serve.
  * Paul Gigot: did not serve.
  * Bill Bennett: did not serve.
  * Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
  * John Wayne: did not serve.
  * Bill Kristol: did not serve.
  * Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
  * Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
  * Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
  * Ralph Reed: did not serve.
  * Michael Medved: did not serve.
  * Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
  * Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't shoot
  back.)

  Please keep this information circulating
  --Illinois State Sen. Howard W. Carroll



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From cpreston2 at tds.net  Wed Feb  1 14:29:50 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Wed Feb  1 14:43:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Benefit
Message-ID: <002301c6277f$058c79e0$0400a8c0@CHARLES>

Hi Tribe members that were at the Jan 31 Benefit

Thanks for letting us know how the benefit went. If anyone got pictures I would like to see them.

Much Peace, Love, and Blessings ~~Charles~~
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From bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu  Wed Feb  1 14:56:43 2006
From: bgonzal at rci.rutgers.edu (Wm-A Gonzalez)
Date: Wed Feb  1 15:12:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Benefit Jan 31
References: <20060201203249.58150.qmail@web81705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <040101c62782$c57b1f10$edde0680@Romano>

Well, if you are all done tooting your own horns.......

...let me toot them for you some more!

The performances were amazing!  The addition of the live band made it all seem more energized.  It was raw and alive, and yet it seemed that the performers had been doing this for years!  I was glad that respect was paid to the band members, who are often overshadowed by the actors, including the incredible marimba/xylophone solo at the end of Be-In.  Everyone was given their chance to shine, and they did.  I wish they would have introduced the non-original Broadway cast members, though.  They too deserved tremendous credit.

One of the fun things, from the audience's perspective, was watching the opening act belly dancers enthusiastically dance to every song.  The youngish crowd seemed to truly enjoy what was going on.  Frank Mills was greeted to applause, as it often is - people love that song.  I was glad to see Tom O'Horgan too.  It was over way too soon.  It brought me pleasant flashbacks to the reunion sing along.

I certainly hope that this is not the last time such an event is put together.  This music still has the ability to touch it's audience, and thrives when performed live.

Peace and Love,
Bil Gonzalez
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Camuto 
  To: eyster@verizon.net ; mb-hair@islandlists.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:32 PM
  Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Benefit Jan 31


  It truly was an amazing experience.  Getting to sing that incredible score with all of those incredible singers was as much fun as the Be-In this past September.  The audience response was amazing considering that more than half of them weren't even born when HAIR was playing.  The food was great, two of the opening acts were brilliant and the HAIR band was so inspiring that it made us sing even better than we thought we could.  I was so nervous at first but Zenobia Conkerite's soulful version of Aquarius made my adrenaline pump and the next thing I knew the show was over.  Special treats of the evening besides Ms. Zenobia were, Dale Soules' "MC duties and here wonderful version of "AIR", Ron Shetler's very powerful "WHERE DO I GO", and Ula Hedwig's' amazing "EASY TO BE HARD".  Ula filled in for the ailing Heather Mac Rae and got one rehearsal on the day of the show.  Marjorie Mudra Lipari and Debbie Andrews did Frank Mills beautifully as a duet, and original cast members Natalie Mosco, Donnie Burks, Ms Lipari and Robert "I" Rubinsky (formally know as Diane Keaton, and who FINALLY has gotten his Turrets Syndrome under control) led us in 3500.  The other big surprise was the appearance of Tom O'Horgan right before the HAIR cast started it's portion of the show.  The show was dedicated to the late Coretta Scott King and the late Wendy Wasserstein. The cast was also given the chance to mention the names of other departed tribe members at that point.  It was a wonderful and emotional evening and I'm sorry it's over.

  "sherwin@aceross.com" <sherwin@aceross.com> wrote:
    Yeah , the rehersals were astounding BUT the benifit blew the roof off The 
    place like a nuclear LOVE bomb and everybody was dancing with everybody on 
    stage and off , letting the sun shine in . 

    It was high , loving and so right on ! 

    People were hugging and kissing till the CODA and the street were empty ! 








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From rrreuteb at mac.com  Wed Feb  1 17:23:08 2006
From: rrreuteb at mac.com (Reute Butler)
Date: Wed Feb  1 17:57:23 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: www.lightmovie.com
References: <2e0cb03f750350b1a1cb5ff795b6be5d@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <E1F4TVV-0004Po-2N@elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Dear Michael, this is truth. Please pass it on. xox
Love & Light, Reute

http://www.lightmovie.com/

> Subject: www.lightmovie.com
>
>
>
>>
>> www.lightmovie.com
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>> This is really wonderful !
>>
>> Enjoy !
>>
>> Many blessings to you in Divine Love,
>> Leslie
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From venuetheatre at juno.com  Wed Feb  1 20:51:05 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb  1 21:25:36 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1
Message-ID: <20060202.001026.2188.4.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Re;  The event Jan 31

Please more info on the sing in.  Did anyone write it up?  Did we raise
tons of dough?
I am so sorry I was not there, week nights are hard to leave the Actors
Studio on its own.
Love to all
miss you
Corinne


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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Thu Feb  2 02:13:10 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Thu Feb  2 02:26:54 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Los Angeles "Reprise"
Message-ID: <2875-43E1DB36-12750@storefull-3271.bay.webtv.net>


This is odd...

How many add-ons, did this production have?

From mblaxill at yahoo.com  Thu Feb  2 06:15:17 2006
From: mblaxill at yahoo.com (Mike Blaxill)
Date: Thu Feb  2 08:22:08 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: Thank you for last night's amazing event!!!
Message-ID: <20060202141517.57756.qmail@web53005.mail.yahoo.com>


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Subject: [Mb-hair] FT.com / Comment & analysis / Analysis - Why Iran
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb  2 11:26:10 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Feb  2 11:39:56 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Film about the G.I. Movement against the War in Vietnam
In-Reply-To: <20060201.131041.14160.211593@webmail24.lax.untd.com>
Message-ID: <C0079CD2.2887F%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Thanks
Michael
-"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being
overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for
the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 



> FYI, for a recently made flick about the G.I. Movement against the War in
> Vietnam go to http://www.sirnosir.com/.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Tioga Joe
> 
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From noreply at google.com  Thu Feb  2 11:43:06 2006
From: noreply at google.com (michael)
Date: Thu Feb  2 11:57:20 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Watch "Vietnam as Iraq" on Google Video
Message-ID: <13687070.561138909385313.JavaMail.video@cwdm70.prod.google.com>

Your friend, michael@intrafi.com, has sent you the following video from
Google Video:

Title: Vietnam as Iraq
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8774081378744375447&q=vietnam&pr=goog-sl

Description: This documentary is a film I put together with clips from
various news services to show the similarities between the failure of
the war in Vietnam to our present day struggles in Iraq.

As a policy stance, I do not necessarily advocate a complete withdrawal
from Iraq--though I realize this may become the only option if the
situation worsens--but support justice for those who committed
mistakes, errors of judgment in carrying out their duties, that led us
into the current predicament.

In other words, I support a complete and total electoral defeat of the
Republican Party--without whose support the war would never have
commenced--in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

Though Senate Democrats also supported the war in Iraq, and therefore
share some of the burden for its commencing, their guilt is mitigated
by the fact that no opposition their minority party could have mustered
would have done anything to stop the Republicans from carrying out the
invasion, and that, in a democratic presidency--specifically, one led
by Gore--the topic of war in Iraq would have never even been brought up.

My email address is mitchbiermann@hotmail.com. If you wish to contact
me for comments, questions, criticism, praise, or job opportunities I
would be very glad to hear from you.

- Want to see more cool videos?
  Go to http://video.google.com/

- Think you have an even cooler video?
  Add it at https://upload.video.google.com/
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb  2 11:50:34 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Feb  2 12:04:19 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: History Is So Important
In-Reply-To: <20060201.130053.14160.211498@webmail24.lax.untd.com>
Message-ID: <C007A28A.28889%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Thanks
Sent it on
Michael

> Dear Michael,
> 
> Speaking of ... ("History is so important"), check out this short
> flick re
> "Vietnam and Iraq" I was alerted to today:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8774081378744375447&q=vietnam
> 
> IMHO, this would make a great, quick orientation for a new, young cast of
> HAIR, to demonstrate just how vital, how timely, how NOT merely a
> period-piece is HAIR today.  HAIR, more than ever, reminds us why we must
> exercise our American Constitutional right to question authority.  Certain
> lessons of our Vietnam War experience apparently were NOT learned.  As has
> been warned, we can be doomed to repeat history.  Some suggest, as does this
> video commentator, that we are indeed now repeating history.
> 
> History IS so important.
> 
> "When will they ever learn?"
> 
> Sibley J. Smith, Jr., Director of Education
> Vietnam Era Educational Center at the
> New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
> Garden State Parkway, Exit 116
> 1 Memorial Lane, P.O. Box 648
> Holmdel (Monmouth County), NJ 07733
> 1-800-648-VETS  www.njvvmf.org
> 
> =====================================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Butler" <michael@michaelbutler.com>
> To: "SPECIAL from Michael Butler" <michael@michaelbutler.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:22 PM
> Subject: History Is So Important
> 
>> 
>> Michael Butler's Blog
>> 
>> http://www.michaelbutler.com/mbblog.html
>> 
>> http://www.michaelbutler.com
> 
> 
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From jlunger at earthlink.net  Thu Feb  2 12:04:04 2006
From: jlunger at earthlink.net (Jeff Lunger)
Date: Thu Feb  2 12:24:26 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Benefit Jan 31
Message-ID: <32709185.1138910644855.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Got to add my 2cents.   

It was Hair as it should be done!  It was so fantastic to have all those original artists, and I mean artists in the highest sense of "art". It was thrilling from Zenobia's "Aquarius" on through the final chorus of "Let the Sun Shine".  

And what a kick-ass band!  My favorite moment was original band member Warren Chiasson's vibes solo during "Be-In"

We documented the event for the Hair Archive.  Nina I will make some stills from the video so you will be able to post 'em on the Archive website!


Thanks and a big hug to all who participated!

love
Jeff
From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Thu Feb  2 13:33:34 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Thu Feb  2 13:47:23 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Cindy Sheehan
In-Reply-To: <200602022000.k12K0Gbu021036@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <20060202213335.92588.qmail@web36611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Thank God someone is giving a voice of protest... it
makes me crazy how there are so many people who say
they disagree with the war and with Bush in general
(look at poll numbers), but no one is doing anything
about it. Everyone thinks it should be someone else's
job. 

-Amy

P.S. sorry I've been so sporadic on the mailing list
lately... with getting married in 4 1/2 months, trying
to buy a condo, working full time and going to grad
school part time I've been pretty busy:)

- Amy

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" - e.e. cummings

"Life is around you and in you . . . Let the sunshine in!" - HAIR (the musical)

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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Thu Feb  2 14:22:46 2006
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Thu Feb  2 14:38:28 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Emperor's Clothes (HAIR nude scene)
Message-ID: <20060202.142317.8594.225886@webmail53.lax.untd.com>

As Michael has oft reminded us, HAIR's nude scene was inspired by an actual political protest during the Vietnam Era in which the participants visually demonstrated that the CounterCulture revolutionaries see through the covers our then-emperors (LBJ & RMN) cloaked themselves in to excuse and promote their [profitable] war agenda in Vietnam -- but, on the otherhand, WE are NOT afraid to be seen in such totality.  You wanna see true democracy, strip everyone down to nothing but flesh ... and hair.  The prince is equal to the pauper.

But lemme get off this soap-boxy tangent.  The point is, see below for a quite timely referral to the "Emperor's Clothes" analogy, in reference to our current emperor and his entourage's stifling of dissent towards their waging of the current [profitable] war.

--tioga joe
    
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020106R.shtml
 
Woolsey Statement regarding Cindy Sheehan 
    By Representative Lynn Woolsey 
    t r u t h o u t | Statement 
    Wednesday 01 February 2006 

    Washington, DC - US Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today issued the following statement regarding Cindy Sheehan's arrest in the gallery of the House of Representatives before the State of the Union address. Mrs. Sheehan was Rep. Lynn Woolsey's guest to the President's State of the Union address. 

    "Since when is free speech conditional on whether you agree with the President? Cindy Sheehan, who gave her own flesh and blood for this disastrous war, did not violate any rules of the House of Representatives. She merely wore a shirt that highlighted the human cost of the Iraq war and expressed a view different than that of the President. Free speech and the First Amendment exist to protect dissenting statements like Ms. Sheehan's last night." 

    "Stifling the truth will not blind Americans to the immorality of sending young Americans to die in an unnecessary war, against a nation that posed no threat to our security. The President's speech last night was yet another attempt to distort history, as he suggested - once again - that the 9/11 terrorists came from Iraq. Everyone knows this is not true. We must not be afraid to say that the emperor has no clothes. It's time to bring our troops home." 
 

 



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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Thu Feb  2 14:53:45 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Thu Feb  2 15:08:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Annie Golden
Message-ID: <20060202225345.AE3812F93D@ws6-3.us4.outblaze.com>

If you want to find Annie Golden or anyone in the biz, call SAG, AFTRA, or Equity. I believe they have a search data base and can give you a contact number, such as their agent or manager.

Beverly


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tiogajoe@juno.com" <tiogajoe@juno.com>
> To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Annie Golden
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:58:28 GMT
> 
> 
> Speaking of Annie Golden, I did a double-take recently as I recognized her in 
> the cast of "The American Astronaut" (2001; 
> (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243759/).  This B-movie-like, black-&-white, 
> sci-fi/comedy was playing as backdrop at "Asbury Lanes" -- a bowling 
> alley/punk-rock/rockabilly/cult-movie night club near the beach in Asbury Park 
> (highly recommended for you when you find yourself down the Jersey Shore -- 
> http://www.asburylanes.com/).
> 
> Anyway, if you want to follow Annie Golden, see "The American Astronaut."
> 
> Happy Groundhog Day!
> 
> tioga joe
> 
> ==================================
> 
> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:55:04 -0800
> From: "Nathan Sanders" <orbit@peoplepc.com>
> 
> If anyone has an email address for Annie Golden, I'd love to get in touch
> with her again. Annie did a production of my play, "The Sugar Bean
> Sisters"
> in New York at the WPA Theatre 10 years ago and I've lost touch with her
> over the years.
> 
> If anyone does know how to contact Annie, please forward this email to her!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Visit the official website of "The Sugar Bean Sisters" & "The
> Amazing
> Adventures of Della, The Dwarf" -
> Go to: www.nathansanders.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb  2 14:59:19 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Feb  2 15:13:09 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Emperor's Clothes (HAIR nude scene)
In-Reply-To: <20060202.142317.8594.225886@webmail53.lax.untd.com>
Message-ID: <C007CEC7.288AC%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Sure agree. What a shocker, really disgusting.
Michael

> As Michael has oft reminded us, HAIR's nude scene was inspired by an actual
> political protest during the Vietnam Era in which the participants visually
> demonstrated that the CounterCulture revolutionaries see through the covers
> our then-emperors (LBJ & RMN) cloaked themselves in to excuse and promote
> their [profitable] war agenda in Vietnam -- but, on the otherhand, WE are NOT
> afraid to be seen in such totality.  You wanna see true democracy, strip
> everyone down to nothing but flesh ... and hair.  The prince is equal to the
> pauper.
> 
> But lemme get off this soap-boxy tangent.  The point is, see below for a quite
> timely referral to the "Emperor's Clothes" analogy, in reference to our
> current emperor and his entourage's stifling of dissent towards their waging
> of the current [profitable] war.
> 
> --tioga joe
>   
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020106R.shtml
> 
> Woolsey Statement regarding Cindy Sheehan
>   By Representative Lynn Woolsey
>   t r u t h o u t | Statement
>   Wednesday 01 February 2006
> 
>   Washington, DC - US Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today issued
> the following statement regarding Cindy Sheehan's arrest in the gallery of the
> House of Representatives before the State of the Union address. Mrs. Sheehan
> was Rep. Lynn Woolsey's guest to the President's State of the Union address.
> 
>   "Since when is free speech conditional on whether you agree with the
> President? Cindy Sheehan, who gave her own flesh and blood for this disastrous
> war, did not violate any rules of the House of Representatives. She merely
> wore a shirt that highlighted the human cost of the Iraq war and expressed a
> view different than that of the President. Free speech and the First Amendment
> exist to protect dissenting statements like Ms. Sheehan's last night."
> 
>   "Stifling the truth will not blind Americans to the immorality of sending
> young Americans to die in an unnecessary war, against a nation that posed no
> threat to our security. The President's speech last night was yet another
> attempt to distort history, as he suggested - once again - that the 9/11
> terrorists came from Iraq. Everyone knows this is not true. We must not be
> afraid to say that the emperor has no clothes. It's time to bring our troops
> home." 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From ace at aceross.com  Thu Feb  2 15:17:08 2006
From: ace at aceross.com (Sherwin)
Date: Thu Feb  2 15:29:12 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] a picture says 1000 words
Message-ID: <20060202231512.260AF83D0C@lax-gw03.mroute.net>

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb  2 15:25:32 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Feb  2 15:39:20 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] a picture says 1000 words
In-Reply-To: <20060202231512.260AF83D0C@lax-gw03.mroute.net>
Message-ID: <C007D4EC.288B9%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Great pictures, who are they, familiar but need info.
M

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Photo by Maxine 01/31/06 Coda Club Benefit
> 
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
> the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead.
> 
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From sherwin at aceross.com  Thu Feb  2 15:31:29 2006
From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Thu Feb  2 15:43:21 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] a picture says 1000 words
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Date: Thu Feb  2 16:03:35 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] a picture says 1000 words
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From: ace at aceross.com (Sherwin)
Date: Thu Feb  2 16:03:40 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] RE: a picture says 1000 words
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Thu Feb  2 15:42:23 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Thu Feb  2 16:03:49 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: Now I love my kids
Message-ID: <20060202234223.AA254EE447@ws6-1.us4.outblaze.com>

This gives comfort to all!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Margolin" <thefunnyman@msn.com>
To: "Ronnie Sperling" <ronnieromy@sbcglobal.net>, "lowell steiger" <Lawdog798@aol.com>, "Greg Chdacoff" <gchudacoff@aol.com>, "Jerry Day Productions" <jday@jerryday.com>, "joni margolin" <JONISAMUELSSALES@aol.com>, "don petrie" <Rezyrector@aol.com>, "Billy Dimota" <castboy@castboy.com>, "bev bremers" <bev@beverlybremers.com>
Subject: Fw: Now I love my kids
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:22:59 -0800




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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Thu Feb  2 16:52:18 2006
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Thu Feb  2 17:06:07 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: Now I love my kids
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From info at amerifilmcasting.com  Thu Feb  2 19:31:55 2006
From: info at amerifilmcasting.com (info@amerifilmcasting.com)
Date: Thu Feb  2 19:46:25 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Annie Golden
In-Reply-To: <20060202225345.AE3812F93D@ws6-3.us4.outblaze.com>
References: <20060202225345.AE3812F93D@ws6-3.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <20060202223155.8cfii9zc0gggcowk@webmail.amerifilmcasting.com>

I have an account at the SAG website - it comes up that her contact # is
212-757-0098 - probably an agent or manager, though often the contact 
info they
have is wrong.

Meredith


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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Thu Feb  2 21:11:30 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Thu Feb  2 21:25:23 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: Now I love my kids
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV113227874F41406C3B093EAB0D0@phx.gbl>


Never... EVER!

barbara


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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Fri Feb  3 11:22:19 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: State of Delusion
Message-ID: <20060203190808.7ECF124B01C@lax-gw02.mroute.net>

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OPINION | February 3, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: State of Delusion
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The Bush administration knows how to attain power, but has no idea how to govern.
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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Fri Feb  3 11:31:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: When Trust in Doctors Erodes,
	Other Treatments Fill the Void
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HEALTH | February 3, 2006
Being a Patient: When Trust in Doctors Erodes, Other Treatments Fill the Void
By BENEDICT CAREY
In ways large and small, millions of people are taking active steps to venture outside the mainstream of traditional health care. 
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Subject: Ohhhh I love it






  In what is a not too subtle dig at Bush's
  subpoena of their search
  records, Google is getting their own nasty dig at
  'W' before the gag orders go into
  effect.

  I don't know how long this will work, but go to 

  http://www.Google.com

  (not the advanced search) and type in the search
  word: asshole

  Then hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button right
  below the Search. The result
  is hysterical, and I have to admit I absolutely
  admire Google's  nerve.





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Thank you, Meredith, for the info on ANNIE GOLDEN!

-Nathan



Visit the official website of "The Sugar Bean Sisters" & "The Amazing 
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Fri Feb  3 13:51:52 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
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I wanna thank those of you who have taken the time to give us reports on the 
HAIR jam which buzzed everyone on January 31st. I really wanted to be part 
of that scene but Tuesday night is a tough deal for me. Sounds like HAIR did 
its thing once again.

PEACE,
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Interesting review of Jimmy Carter's latest book....


Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:48 AM
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"New York Review of Books"
Volume 53, Number 2 ? February 9, 2006


Review

Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death

By Garry Wills

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
Simon and Schuster, 212 pp., $25.00

In 1972, I was asked by New York magazine to survey Southern reactions to 
the
attempted assassination of George Wallace. On my list of people to call was
Georgia governor Jimmy Carter. When I called his press secretary, Jody 
Powell
(a name I had never heard before), I was told it would be better for me to 
come
to Atlanta than to talk on the phone. (Powell was drumming up attention for
his man, with a view to his running for president.) When I arrived there,
Powell had arranged for me to fly with Carter in his little state prop plane 
to Ti
fton, a small South Georgia town where there was a meeting with local 
sheriffs.
The sheriffs were unhappy with Carter's liberal racial policies, and Powell
obviously thought it would be good for his reputation nationally to be seen 
as
standing up against regional prejudice.

Carter used all his local ties to defang the critics?the sheriffs did not
openly turn against him?and I was impressed. On the flight back, he said he
wanted to drop off in the town of Plains and see how his peanut business was
doing?a homey touch the press would be treated to ad nauseam over the next 
two
years. I do not remember any mention of his local church while we were in 
Plains.
In fact, I cannot recall that religion was brought up in all our hours
together. Perhaps he thought that was not something New York magazine 
readers would
respond to. At any rate, I was surprised when, four years later, so much was
made of his religion as he ran for president. It began when he was asked, 
while
visiting Baptist friends, if he thought of himself as "born again." He 
answered
yes?not surprisingly, since the Gospel of John (3:5) says that one must be
born again to enter the kingdom of heaven, and Saint Paul says that baptism 
is
being reborn into Christ (Romans 6:4). Reporters did not know this as a 
basic
belief of Christians?they treated it as an odd cult claim.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------

That led to his second-most-famous remark of the 1976 campaign. Carter was
asked in a Playboy interview if he thought he was a holier-than-thou person
because he was born again. He answered that, no, in fact he had committed 
lust in
his heart?again quoting the New Testament (Matthew 5:28). That did it. For
much of the Carter presidency, the line of some in the press (and, as I know
well, in the academy) was that he was a religious nut. I followed him in the 
1976
race and heard a reporter ask Carter why he constantly brought up religion. 
He
replied that he had made a determination never to bring up religion in the
campaign. But the reporters kept asking him about it, and he had to answer 
them
or be criticized for dodging the issue.

His attendance at church was not announced; we reporters had to ferret that
out by ourselves. Carter is an old-fashioned Baptist, the kind that follows 
the
lead of the great Baptist Roger Williams?that is, he is the firmest of
believers in the separation of church and state. Unlike most if not all 
modern
presidents, he never had a prayer service in the White House. His problem, 
back
then, was not that he paraded his belief but that he believed. All this can 
seem
quaint now when professing religion is practically a political necessity,
whether one believes or not. There is now an inverse proportion between
religiosity and sincerity.

Carter rightly says in Our Endangered Values that the norms of religion and
politics are different. His religion, at any rate, places its greatest 
priority
on love, of God and one's neighbor, even to the point of self-sacrifice. But
a president cannot make his nation sacrifice itself?that would be 
dereliction
of duty. The priority of politics is justice, and love goes beyond that. But
love can help one find out what is just, without equating the two. That is 
why
none of us, even those who believe in the separation of church and state,
professes a separation of morality and politics. Insofar as believers?the 
great
majority of Americans?derive many if not most of their moral insights from 
their
beliefs, they must mingle religion and politics, again without equating the
two.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

In his new book, Carter addresses religion and politics together in a way
that he has not done before, because he thinks that some Americans, and
especially his fellow Baptists, have equated the two in a way that 
contradicts
traditional Baptist beliefs in the autonomy of local churches, in the 
opposition to
domination by religious leaders, and in the fellowship of love without 
reliance
on compulsion, political or otherwise. In 2000, these tenets were expressly
renounced by the largest Baptist body, the Southern Baptist Convention, 
which
removed a former commitment to belief that "the sole authority for faith and
practice among Baptists is Jesus Christ, whose will is revealed in the Holy
Scriptures." What was being substituted, Carter writes, was "domination by 
all-male
pastors." As a leading spokesman, W.A. Criswell, put it: "Lay leadership of
the church is unbiblical when it weakens the pastor's authority as ruler of 
the
church." The Southern Baptists, Carter laments, have become as authoritarian
as their former antitype, the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The Southern Baptist
Convention has severed its ancient ties with the Baptist World Alliance.

The marks of this new fundamentalism, according to Carter, are rigidity,
self-righteousness, and an eagerness to use compulsion (including political
compulsion). Its spokesmen are contemptuous of all who do not agree with 
them one
hundred percent. Pat Robertson, on his 700 Club, typified the new "popes" 
when
he proclaimed: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and 
the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing.
Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist." Carter 
got a
firsthand taste of such intolerance when the president of the Southern 
Baptist
Convention visited him in the White House to tell him, "We are praying, Mr.
President, that you will abandon secular humanism as your religion."

Such attitudes are far from the ones recommended by Jesus in the gospels as
Carter has studied and taught them through the decades, and their proponents
have brought similar attitudes into the political world, where a matching
political fundamentalism has taken over much of the electoral process. Such
dictatorial attitudes defeat the stated goals of the fundamentalists 
themselves. On
abortion, for instance, Carter argues that a "pro-life" dogmatism defeats 
human
life and values at many turns. Carter is opposed to abortion, as what he 
calls
a tragedy "brought about by a combination of human errors." But the
"pro-life" forces compound rather than reduce the errors. The most common 
abortions,
and the most common reasons cited for undergoing them, are caused by 
economic
pressure compounded by ignorance.

Yet the anti-life movement that calls itself pro-life protects ignorance by
opposing family planning, sex education, and informed use of contraceptives,
tactics that not only increase the likelihood of abortion but tragedies like
AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The rigid system of the 
"pro-life"
movement makes poverty harsher as well, with low minimum wages, opposition 
to
maternity leaves, and lack of health services and insurance. In combination,
these policies make ideal conditions for promoting abortion, as one can see
from the contrast with countries that do have sex education and medical
insurance. Carter writes:

Canadian and European young people are about equally active sexually, but,
deprived of proper sex education, American girls are five times as likely to
have a baby as French girls, seven times as likely to have an abortion, and
seventy times as likely to have gonorrhea as girls in the Netherlands. Also, 
the
incidence of HIV/ AIDS among American teenagers is five times that of the 
same
age group in Germany.... It has long been known that there are fewer 
abortions
in nations where prospective mothers have access to contraceptives, the
assurance that they and their babies will have good health care, and at 
least enough
income to meet their basic needs.

The result of a rigid fundamentalism combined with poverty and ignorance can
be seen where the law forbids abortion:

In some predominantly Roman Catholic countries where all abortions are
illegal and few social services are available, such as Peru, Brazil, Chile, 
and
Colombia, the abortion rate is fifty per thousand. According to the World 
Health
Organization, this is the highest ratio of unsafe abortions [in the world].

A New York Times article that came out after Carter's book appeared further
confirms what he is saying: "Four million abortions, most of them illegal, 
take
place in Latin America annually, the United Nations reports, and up to 5,000
women are believed to die each year from complications from abortions."[*]
This takes place in countries where churches and schools teach abstinence as 
the
only form of contraception?demonstrating conclusively the ineffectiveness of
that kind of program.

By contrast, in the United States, where abortion is legal and sex education
is broader, the abortion rate reached a twenty-four-year low during the 
1990s.
Yet the ironically named "pro-life" movement would return the United States
to the condition of Chile or Colombia. And not only that, the 
fundamentalists
try to impose the anti-life program in other countries by refusing foreign 
aid
to programs that teach family planning, safe sex, and contraceptive 
knowledge.
They also oppose life-saving advances through the use of stem cell research.
With friends like these, "life" is in thrall to death. Carter finds these
results neither loving (in religious terms) nor just (in political terms).
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Carter finds the same rigid and self-righteous?and self-defeating?policies
at work across the current political spectrum. The pro-life forces have no
problem with a gun industry and capital punishment legislation that are, in 
fact,
provably pro-death. Carter, a lifelong hunter, does not want to outlaw guns
and he knows that Americans would never do that. But timorous politicians,
cowering before the NRA, defeat even the most sensible limitations on 
weapons
useful neither for hunting nor for personal self-defense (AK-47s, AR-15s, 
Uzis),
even though, as Carter shows, more than 1,100 police chiefs and sheriffs 
told
Congress that these weapons are obstacles to law enforcement. The NRA 
opposed
background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists 
and
illegals, and then insisted that background checks, if they were imposed, 
had
to be destroyed within twenty-four hours. The result of such pro-death
measures, Carter writes, is grimly evident: "American children are sixteen 
times more
likely than children in other industrialized nations to be murdered with a
gun, eleven times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and nine times 
more
likely to die from firearms accidents." Where are the friends of the fetus
when children are dying in such numbers?

Carter observes that "the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
reports that the rate of firearms homicide in the United States is nineteen
times higher than that of 35 other high-income countries combined" (emphasis
added). In the most recent year for which figures are available, these are 
the
numbers for firearms homicides:

 Ireland 54
 Japan  83
 Sweden  183
 Great Britain  197
 Australia 334
 Canada 1,034
 United States 30,419
  [emphasis added]

Once again, Carter finds no support for the policies that make such a result
possible in the US, in terms of either a loving religion or a just society.

Capital punishment is also a pro-death program. It does not protect life. It
aligns us with authoritarian regimes: "Ninety percent of all known 
executions
are carried out in just four countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia?and the
United States" (emphasis added). Execution does not deter, as many studies 
have
proved. In states that abolished it, Carter writes, capital crimes did not
increase:

The homicide rate is at least five times greater in the United States than 
in
any European country, none of which authorizes the death penalty. The
Southern states carry out over 80 percent of the executions but have a 
higher murder
rate than any other region. Texas has by far the most executions, but its
homicide rate is twice that of Wisconsin, the first state to abolish the 
death
penalty. It is not a matter of geography or ethnicity, as is indicated by 
similar
and adjacent states: the number of capital crimes is higher, respectively, 
in
South Dakota, Connecticut, and Virginia (all with the death sentence) than 
in
the adjacent states of North Dakota, Massachusetts, and West Virginia
(without the death penalty).

How can a loving religion or a just state support such a culture of death?
Only a self-righteous and punitive fundamentalism, not an ethos of the 
gospels,
can explain this.

It is in foreign affairs that Carter finds the most self-righteous, rigid,
and self-defeating effects of a religio-political fundamentalism. It is the 
gap
between rich and poor in the world that presents the main threat to our
future, yet American policies increase that gap, at home and abroad. We give
proportionally less money in foreign aid than do other developed countries, 
and our
ability to give is being decreased by our growing deficit, incurred to 
reward
our own wealthy families with disproportionate tax cuts. Carter points out 
that
much of the aid announced or authorized never reaches its targets. This
reflects a general smugness about America's privileged position. We are 
dismissive
of other countries' concern with the world environment, with nuclear
containment, and with international law. Carter gives specifics gathered 
from his world
travels and from the experts' forums he regularly assembles at the Carter
Center in Atlanta.

We have, for example, declared our right to first use of nuclear weapons. We
have used aid money to bribe people against holding us accountable to
international law. We have run secret detention centers where hundreds of 
people are
held without formal charges or legal representation. We have rewarded with 
high
office men who, like Alberto Gonzales, say that the Geneva Conventions on
treatment of prisoners are "obsolete" or even "quaint," or who, like John 
Bolton,
say that it is "a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international
law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so."

The result, as Carter writes, has been to turn a vast fund of international
good will accruing to us after September 11 into fear of and contempt for
America unparalleled in modern times. We undermine the inspection teams of 
the UN
and the IAEA with the result that we blunder into Iraq on bad information
gathered from self-serving hacks buttering up our officialdom. On the eve of 
our
attack on Iraq, Carter published an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times 
arguing in
terms of the just war tradition that a preemptive and unilateral invasion 
was
unjustified. Going to war was not a last resort (inspections could have
continued to contain Saddam until the proof of WMDs, or the lack of them, 
could be
established). War was not authorized by international authorities for
eliminating nuclear weapons, but was an opportunity seized in order "to 
achieve regime
change and to establish a Pax Americana in the region." It did not promise
proportional violence with a clear hope of providing better conditions than 
the
ones it was remedying. Carter's was a calm and moral judgment about the war,
which most Americans now believe was the right one. In retrospect, a 
majority
think the war was a mistake. We should have listened to Carter.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

We pretend we are against nuclear proliferation, yet we spur it on when
others see our disregard for the very international agreements that promote 
it:

The end of America's "no first use" nuclear weapons policy has aroused a
somewhat predictable response in other nations. Chinese major general Zhu 
Chenghu
announced in July 2005 that China's government was under internal pressure 
to
change its "no first use" policy: "If the Americans draw their missiles and
position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I 
think
we will have to respond with nuclear weapons."

We attack terrorism not by cooperation with other countries' security teams,
which often have better information on worldwide terrorist activities than 
we
do, but with unilateral and preemptive uses of force that just increase
terrorism. This is a new culture of death: "The US National Counterterrorism
Center," Carter writes, "reported that the number of serious international 
terrorist
incidents more than tripled in 2004. 'Significant' attacks grew to more than
650, up from the previous record of 175 in 2003."

We claim to be spreading democracy in the Middle East, but a Zogby
international poll in 2005 showed that an overwhelming majority of Arabs did 
not believe
that US policy in Iraq was motivated by the spread of democracy in the
region, and believed that the Middle East had become less democratic after 
the Iraq
war. The approval rating of America plummeted at the very time we were
supposedly bringing the blessings of freedom there?it stood, Carter notes, 
at "2
percent in Egypt, 4 percent in Saudi Arabia, 11 percent in Morocco, 14 
percent in
the United Arab Emirates, 15 percent in Jordan, with a high of only 20 
percent
in [our friend] Lebanon." These developments have taken place as America
enacted a retreat from earlier commitments, under both Republican and 
Democratic
presidents, that parallels what Carter describes as the retreat of 
evangelicals
from earlier fidelity to gospel values such as life, compassion, tolerance,
and inclusiveness.

Carter is a patriot. He lists all the things that Americans have to be proud
of. That is why he is so concerned that we are squandering our treasures,
moral even more than economic. He has come to the defense of our national 
values,
which he finds endangered. He proves that a devout Christian does not need 
to
be a fundamentalist or fanatic, any more than a patriotic American has to be
punitive, narrow, and self-righteous. He defends the separation of church 
and
state because he sees with nuanced precision the interactions of faith,
morality, politics, and pragmatism. That is a combination that once was not 
rare, but
is becoming more so. We need a voice from the not-so-distant past, and this
quiet voice strikes just the right notes.

Notes

[*] Juan Forero, "Latin American Women Mount Campaign to Legalize Abortion,"
The New York Times, December 3, 2005, page A8.





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From sherwin at aceross.com  Fri Feb  3 17:01:45 2006
From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Fri Feb  3 17:13:44 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] and man did they play
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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Feb  3 17:14:57 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] SUGGEST READ
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The Review of Carter's book

From sherwin at aceross.com  Fri Feb  3 17:14:22 2006
From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Fri Feb  3 17:26:25 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] and he listened
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From michael at intrafi.com  Fri Feb  3 18:25:06 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Fri Feb  3 18:39:05 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: Decoding the Secrets of JFK and 9/11
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This story has been forwarded to you from
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Decoding the Secrets of JFK and 9/11
http://www.alternet.org/story/31740

New evidence about JFK's assassination suggests that the real version of the second-most important conspiracy in American history -- the 9/11 attacks -- may not be uncovered for years.
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From michael at intrafi.com  Fri Feb  3 18:29:43 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Fri Feb  3 18:43:42 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: Excerpt: 'Ultimate Sacrifice'
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Excerpt: 'Ultimate Sacrifice'
http://www.alternet.org/story/31742

President Kennedy paid the ultimate price for trying to execute one of the most secret covert operations in United States history.
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From sam at samharris.org  Thu Feb  2 23:36:12 2006
From: sam at samharris.org (sam@samharris.org)
Date: Fri Feb  3 18:51:33 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] New Article
Message-ID: <E1F5DIl-00051d-46@smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

Here is my latest contribution to the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/a-contemplative-science_b_15024.html


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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Fri Feb  3 20:16:00 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] pictures from benefit on website
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http://www.aceross.com/tribe.htm

"The miracle of changed consciousness 
comes from placing the attention 
above the difficulties of the day. 
  
With deep Gratitude 
comes true humility, 
a key to the Fountain of Youth. 
  
Gratitude lights the way to enthusiasm. 
enthusiasm clears the path to Love. 
Love is the key to freedom." 
  
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From: dizz007 at earthlink.net (dean crandell)
Date: Fri Feb  3 21:16:18 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hey Michael, I don't know if you've heard of this writer,
	but I like most of his stuff. 
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The Real State Of The Union 
How to address a bitter, war-torn but still somehow giddy and deeply horny nation 
- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, February 1, 2006 

My fellow Americans, we're not as royally screwed as everything Bush has done during his miserable term in office would have you believe. 
Yes, we are on the brink of epic destruction involving war and sweaty religious nutballs and a mad grab for the planet's few remaining gurgles of oil and the general appalling lousiness of the new TV season. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Destruction can be healthy. A positive force. Destruction sweeps the place bare, scrubs out the spiritual colon, cleanses the palate for what's next. And besides, have you seen "Grey's Anatomy"? Totally cute. 
But here's the best part: No one really knows what's next. Oh sure, we have prognosticators and pundits and professional fearmongers from the GOP and the religious right who want to tell you that the apocalypse is nigh and God hates everything you do and if the terrorists don't get your fresh innocent white babies, the gays or the pot smokers or the rappers will. 
But the truth is, we really haven't the slightest clue what's going on. Hell, 20 years ago, who could have predicted the insane rise of the Internet? The success of the Toyota Prius? Five-hundred-dollar Gucci iPod cases? Polyphonic ring tones? Dark matter? The baffling success of Ashlee Simpson? Puggles? This much we know: We don't know squat. Except, of course, that there is one hell of a lot more to know. 
Yes, the Bush administration has done more to harm the economy and decimate the national spirit and rape the notion of patriotism than any administration in 100 years. It might very well be true -- hell, we all know it's true -- but is that all there is? 
Juicy progress has occurred, despite Dubya and his ilk. Hell, in 1942 you couldn't buy a vibrator to save your life, much less your marriage. People were playing scratchy 78s on their steam-powered turntables and danced in heavy girdles made of bailing wire and lost hopes. Merely uttering the words "double soy mocha latte" in some states would get you shot for being some sort of Communist. Life was brutal. Thongs had yet to be invented. Radiohead didn't exist. Telephones were made of wood and string and lots of yelling. People ate meat from a can. Power steering was science fiction. 
This much we know: Progress is measured in fits and hurls and recoils and lurches. We are certainly not where we were, but in some ways, we are stuck there like a pig in quicksand. It's a conundrum. Make that a paradox. A cosmic knock-knock joke. It is merely the way. 
Here is some interesting news: Only about 74 percent of Americans call themselves Christian nowadays, down from 86 percent about 15 years ago. What's more, it seems the numbers are dropping steadily, a little less than 1 percent a year. Which means, in about 30 years from now, Christians could be a minority in the United State. What are we to make of this? Here's the most fascinating aspect: God is smiling about it. 
Although there's a desperate need to cling on to the old, unenlightened ways, a deep trembling fear of change and progress, a need by the PTB to force everyone into little manageable boxes of identity and function, all while absolutely refusing to allow intellect and gender and belief to be as fluid and fascinating as they so desperately want to be, the good news is, the cat is out of the bag and she's sprinting for the border, singing Led Zep's "Black Dog" and laughing maniacally. 
Art will not die. Gay rights marches awkwardly on. Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in America. Sex keeps us more giddy than ever. New galaxies get discovered. Women laugh. Communication evolves. Vibrator quality improves. Wars end. All this pseudo-Christian panic is merely the last spasm of a dying dogma. Which is to say, conservatives may wail and religions may pule, but love winks and shrugs and evolves anyway, despite them both. 
You see, magic abounds. Change can blink clumsily to life even in the dankest of corners. Take health care. You will hear much about health care this year. Health care is a nasty, bloated mess, a massive crisis, bigger than any other fiscal issue facing the nation, could very well bankrupt the U.S. government. One reason costs are so high and HMOs are so abusive is because the health industry has powerful lobbyists and the industry CEOs are cronies of the president. What are we to do about this? 
Maybe not as much as you might think. Because now a funny thing is happening: Ironically, the powerful crony CEOs of all the other major American corporations, like GM and Wal-Mart and even Starbucks, have become royally furious about how much of their overhead is going to pay for employee health care and are letting Congress feel their wrath, forcing a change. It is the battle of the BushCo cronies! 
See, sometimes positive change can happen, even when it's not borne of decent or humanitarian purposes. Of course your current gummint doesn't care a whit about you or your health or well-being. They care about power and money and control. But sometimes even that works out sort of OK. Weird. 
A sort of chaotic, forward-lurching equilibrium prevails. Even powerful, seemingly ironclad secrets cannot hold. The Bush administration is the cagiest and most morally abusive in decades, and we've worked like paranoid ferrets to narrow the extent and application of America's landmark laws regarding open government, including the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Presidential Records Act. In other words, they don't want you to know crap about how deep their lies go. 
But look. In one short year, the sneering, all-consuming GOP has gone from master of all domains, from owning every aspect of the federal government and launching multiple failed wars and abusing all laws and spying and wiretapping and torturing and lying, to one of the least stable parties in ages. Scandals, indictments, arrests, Abramoff, Enron, DeLay, thousands of dead U.S. soldiers and nothing to show for it but more enraged terrorists, an economy running on fumes. Regimes built on lies and religious fearmongering never last. It's like a genital rash -- it just seems to take forever to heal. 
Are you not reassured? Because this is the amazing thing. There are languages left to learn. Countries you have still not visited. Musical drumbeats you have not felt deep in your tailbone. There are sexual positions and tongue-related sensations and deep longing stares you have yet to hold in your body the way an open palm holds a small bird. It might take another lifetime or three. This is just fine. We have time. Lots of it. 
Did you know every religion in the world has some variant of a belief in past lives, in reincarnation? It's true. Most believe that this earthly plane is merely an intense cosmic schoolroom for our spirits, albeit one of the harshest and meatiest and most spasmodically radiant in the galaxies. And yet we keep coming back here, over and over, millions of times, to learn all the aspects, dark and light and murderous and blissful, so we can move to the next level, help the universe hum that much brighter. 
My fellow Americans, I am here to tell you I have no freaking idea why it's set up this way. But I can tell you one thing: It sure makes for one hell of a ride. 
Thank you and God bless America. 


Thoughts for the author? E-mail him. 
Mark Morford's Notes & Errata column appears every Wednesday and Friday on SF Gate and in the Datebook section of the SF Chronicle. To get on the e-mail list for this column, please click here and remove one article of clothing. Mark's column also has an RSS feed and an archive of past columns, which includes a tiny photo of Mark probably insufficient for you to recognize him in the street and give him gifts. 
As if that weren't enough, Mark also contributes to the hot, spankin' SF Gate Culture Blog. 

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/02/01/notes020106.DTL 


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Feb  3 19:26:41 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat Feb  4 07:23:47 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] An Extraordinary Documentary
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Friend Kevin sent this and I was mesmerized.
Well worth the time.

First link describes the film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares#Introduction

Second link will help you get it-free:
http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=7

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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act."- George Orwell


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Date: Sat Feb  4 11:47:37 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The rehearsals
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Sat Feb  4 11:52:04 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Sat Feb  4 12:06:27 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] CRUCIAL...
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Sat, 4 Feb 2006
	11:41:30 -0800
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You can be outraged, or a little scared, or start innovating ideas on
how the more positive-thinking folks in this country, can similarly
mobilize. The good-hearted moderates, still, by far, are the majority in
our home.

Could you imagine how even more remarkable our nation might be, today,
if JFK's "best and the brightest," had insured a judicial, social,
scientific and other infra-structure, for two decades down the line?

Time again, to begin dreaming, and plan!

Jim Burns
 
"In Alito, G.O.P. Reaps Harvest Planted in '82"  
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 30, 2006

Last February, as rumors swirled about the failing health of Chief
Justice William H. Rehnquist, a team of conservative grass-roots
organizers, public relations specialists and legal strategists met to
prepare a battle plan to ensure any vacancies were filled by like-minded
jurists.

The team recruited conservative lawyers to study the records of 18
potential nominees ? including Judges John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel
A. Alito Jr. ? and trained more than three dozen lawyers across the
country to respond to news reports on the president's eventual pick. 

"We boxed them in," one lawyer present during the strategy meetings said
with pride in an interview over the weekend. This lawyer and others
present who described the meeting were granted anonymity because the
meetings were confidential and because the team had told its allies not
to exult publicly until the confirmation vote was cast.

Now, on the eve of what is expected to be the Senate confirmation of
Judge Alito to the Supreme Court, coming four months after Chief Justice
Roberts was installed, those planners stand on the brink of a watershed
for the conservative movement.

In 1982, the year after Mr. Alito first joined the Reagan
administration, that movement was little more than the handful of legal
scholars who gathered at Yale for the first meeting of the Federalist
Society, a newly formed conservative legal group. 

Judge Alito's ascent to join Chief Justice Roberts on the court "would
have been beyond our best expectations," said Spencer Abraham, one of
the society's founders, a former secretary of energy under President
Bush and now the chairman of the Committee for Justice, one of many
conservative organizations set up to support judicial nominees.

He added, "I don't think we would have put a lot of money on it in a
friendly wager."

Judge Alito's confirmation is also the culmination of a disciplined
campaign begun by the Reagan administration to seed the lower federal
judiciary with like-minded jurists who could reorient the federal courts
toward a view of the Constitution much closer to its 18th-century
authors' intent, including a much less expansive view of its application
to individual rights and federal power. It was a philosophy promulgated
by Edwin Meese III, attorney general in the Reagan administration, that
became the gospel of the Federalist Society and the nascent conservative
legal movement.

Both Mr. Roberts and Mr. Alito were among the cadre of young
conservative lawyers attracted to the Reagan administration's Justice
Department. And both advanced to the pool of promising young jurists
whom strategists like C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the first
Bush administration and an adviser to the current White House, sought to
place throughout the federal judiciary to groom for the highest court.

"It is a Reagan personnel officer's dream come true," said Douglas W.
Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who worked with Mr.
Alito and Mr. Roberts in the Reagan administration. "It is a graduation.
These individuals have been in study and preparation for these roles all
their professional lives."

As each progressed in legal stature, others were laying the
infrastructure of the movement. After the 1987 defeat of the Supreme
Court nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork conservatives vowed to build a
counterweight to the liberal forces that had mobilized to stop him. 

With grants from major conservative donors like the John M. Olin
Foundation, the Federalist Society functioned as a kind of shadow
conservative bar association, planting chapters in law schools around
the country that served as a pipeline to prestigious judicial
clerkships. 

During their narrow and politically costly victory in the 1991
confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas, the Federalist Society lawyers
forged new ties with the increasingly sophisticated network of
grass-roots conservative Christian groups like Focus on the Family in
Colorado Springs and the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss.
Many conservative Christian pastors and broadcasters had railed for
decades against Supreme Court decisions that outlawed school prayer and
endorsed abortion rights.

During the Clinton administration, Federalist Society members and allies
had come to dominate the membership and staff of the Judiciary
Committee, which turned back many of the administration's nominees.
"There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the
nature of the nominations being made," said Mr. Abraham, the Federalist
Society founder who was a senator on the Judiciary Committee at the
time.

By 2000, the decades of organizing and battles had fueled a deep demand
in the Republican base for change on the court. Mr. Bush tapped into
that demand by promising to name jurists in the mold of conservative
Justices Thomas and Scalia. 

When Mr. Bush named Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel, as the
successor to Justice O'Connor, he faced a revolt from his conservative
base, which complained about her dearth of qualifications and
ideological bona fides. 

"It was a striking example of the grass roots having strong opinions
that ran counter to the party leaders about what was attainable," said
Stephen G. Calabresi, a law professor at Northwestern University and
another founding member of the Federalist Society.

But in October, when President Bush withdrew Ms. Miers's nomination and
named Judge Alito, the same network quickly mobilized behind him. 
Conservatives had begun planning for a nomination fight as long ago as
that February meeting, which was led by Leonard A. Leo, executive vice
president of the Federalist Society and informal adviser to the White
House, Mr. Meese and Mr. Gray. 

They laid out a two-part strategy to roll out behind whomever the
president picked, people present said. The plan: first, extol the
nonpartisan legal credentials of the nominee, steering the debate away
from the nominee's possible influence over hot-button issues. 

Second, attack the liberal groups they expected to oppose any Bush
nominee.

The team worked through a newly formed group, the Judicial Confirmation
Network, to coordinate grass-roots pressure on Democratic senators from
conservative states. And they stayed in constant contact with scores of
conservative groups around the country to brief them about potential
nominees and to make sure they all stuck to the same message. They
fine-tuned their strategy for Judge Alito when he was nominated in
October by recruiting Italian-American groups to protest the use of the
nickname "Scalito," which would have linked him to the conservative
Justice Antonin Scalia. 

In November, some Democrats believed they had a chance to defeat the
nomination after the disclosure of a 1985 memorandum Judge Alito wrote
in the Reagan administration about his conservative legal views on
abortion, affirmative action and other subjects.

"It was a done deal," one of the Democratic staff members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because
the staff is forbidden to talk publicly about internal meetings. "This
was the most evidence we have ever had about a 
Supreme Court nominee's true beliefs."

Mr. Leo and other lawyers supporting Judge Alito were inclined to shrug
off the memorandum, which described views that were typical in their
circles, people involved in the effort said. But executives at Creative
Response Concepts, the team's public relations firm, quickly convinced
them it was "a big deal" that could become the centerpiece of the
Democrats' attacks, one of the people said.

"The call came in right away," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the
American Center for Law and Justice and another lawyer on the Alito
team. 

Responding to Mr. Alito's 1985 statement that he disagreed strongly with
the abortion-rights precedents, for example, "The answer was, 'Of course
he was opposed to abortion,' " Mr. Sekulow said. "He worked for the
Reagan administration, he was a lawyer representing a client, and it may
well have reflected his personal beliefs. But look what he has done as
judge."

His supporters deluged news organizations with phone calls, press
releases and lawyers to interview, all noting that on the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Judge Alito had voted to uphold
and to strike down abortion restrictions.

Democrats contended that those arguments were irrelevant because on the
lower court Judge Alito was bound by Supreme Court precedent, whereas as
a justice he could vote to overturn any precedents with which he
disagreed. 

By last week it was clear that the judge had enough votes to win
confirmation. And the last gasp of resistance came in a Democratic
caucus meeting on Wednesday when Senator Edward M. Kennedy, joined by
Senator John Kerry, both of Massachusetts, unsuccessfully tried to
persuade the party to organize a filibuster.

No one defended Judge Alito or argued that he did not warrant
opposition, Mr. Kennedy said in an interview. Instead, opponents of the
filibuster argued about the political cost of being accused of
obstructionism by conservatives.

Still, on the brink of this victory, some in the conservative movement
say the battle over the court has just begun. Justice O'Connor was the
swing vote on many issues, but replacing her with a more dependable
conservative would bring that faction of the court at most to four
justices, not five, and thus not enough to truly reshape the court or
overturn precedents like those upholding abortion rights.

"It has been a long time coming," Judge Bork said, "but more needs to be
done."


? Copyright 2006 The New York Times


From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Sat Feb  4 12:54:35 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Sat Feb  4 13:08:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Good Night, and Good Luck
Message-ID: <20060204205435.63362.qmail@web36602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Has anyone else seen this movie? It's a very good
film, and so interesting considering the parallels to
McCarthyism that we're currently experiencing. So much
of the film could have been transplanted right into
modern times (the apathy of the American people,
security v. protecting our civil liberties, etc.)

But it made me hopeful, because if history repeats
itself (which it often does) even though people are
apathetic and want to turn a blind eye to problems
with the country right now (as they did in the 50s)
maybe within the next 10 years the tide will turn and
people will begin protesting and speakign out about
the injustices done in our country (as they did in the 60s).

- Amy

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" - e.e. cummings

"Life is around you and in you . . . Let the sunshine in!" - HAIR (the musical)

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From michael at intrafi.com  Sat Feb  4 13:33:11 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Sat Feb  4 13:47:18 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: Belafonte on Bush, War and Wiretaps
Message-ID: <20060204213311.DC1CBB8011@alternet.org>


This story has been forwarded to you from
http://www.alternet.org by michael@intrafi.com

A Siver Indian Speaks

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Belafonte on Bush, War and Wiretaps
http://www.alternet.org/story/31575

Renowned musician and activist Harry Belafonte speaks up about why Bush and Co. are the world's worst terrorists -- and what we can do about it.
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From venuetheatre at juno.com  Sat Feb  4 13:49:45 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre@juno.com)
Date: Sat Feb  4 14:04:47 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Photos of Jan 30
Message-ID: <20060204.164945.2188.10.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Thanks for the great photos Sherwin.  Who were all those young people?
Corinne


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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Sat Feb  4 13:55:20 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Sat Feb  4 14:08:29 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: pictures from benefit on website
References: <200602042000.k14K0IEF031988@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <001f01c629d5$b1827e90$6401a8c0@Leo>

Sherwin, thanks so much brother for these pics; it appears that once again a 
great HAIR moment has been captured on film. As usual everyone looks 
absolutely brilliant!

PEACE,
Leo

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 Subject: [Mb-hair] pictures from benefit on website

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From sherwin at aceross.com  Sat Feb  4 14:56:00 2006
From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Sat Feb  4 15:08:06 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: pictures from benefit on website
In-Reply-To: <001f01c629d5$b1827e90$6401a8c0@Leo>
Message-ID: <20060204225405.5FB1813B7FE@lax-gw04.mroute.net>

 

Leo you are so welcome..

 

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Sherwin, thanks so much brother for these pics; it appears that once again a


great HAIR moment has been captured on film. As usual everyone looks 

absolutely brilliant!

 

PEACE,

Leo

 

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From cpreston2 at tds.net  Sat Feb  4 16:58:33 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Sat Feb  4 17:12:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Sherwins Photos
Message-ID: <002001c629ef$4b192720$0400a8c0@CHARLES>

Sherwin 

It is so nice of you to put up all these photos for those of us that could not make it to the event. It shows we are still going strong. Thanks Brother. And to all that attended!!!!!

Peace, Love, and Blessings ~~Charles~~
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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Sat Feb  4 18:08:38 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Sherwins Photos
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Charles you are so welcome..

 

I have a request is there a possibility that you can invite My girlfriend ,
her son and myself to the Magic Castle?

 

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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 4:59 PM
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Sherwin 

 

It is so nice of you to put up all these photos for those of us that could
not make it to the event. It shows we are still going strong. Thanks
Brother. And to all that attended!!!!!

 

Peace, Love, and Blessings ~~Charles~~

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From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Sat Feb  4 18:44:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Sherwins Photos
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Hi Sherwin

YES, I can get you and your girl friend in her son has to be 21 to get in during any of the week days, Sunday brunch is the only time any one under 21 can get in and I usually have to be the one to bring any one in on Sundays. Let me know and I will go straight to the top of the folks at the Magic Castle and see what I can do to get special permission to let someone in with out me being there on Sunday. 
But any time you want to go to the Castle just let me know and all I have to do I make a call to them an I can get you in on any week night. The only thing I have no control over is they want you to eat there if I am not with you. That is one of there conditions.

Peace, Love, and Blessings ~~Charles~~
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  From: Sherwin Ross 
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  Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:56 PM
  Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Sherwins Photos


  Charles you are so welcome..

   

  I have a request is there a possibility that you can invite My girlfriend , her son and myself to the Magic Castle?

   

  Sherwin "Ace" Ross

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  Sherwin 

   

  It is so nice of you to put up all these photos for those of us that could not make it to the event. It shows we are still going strong. Thanks Brother. And to all that attended!!!!!

   

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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Sat Feb  4 20:24:21 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Sat Feb  4 20:38:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Brigadooning, of My Mind...?
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Sat, 4 Feb 2006
	19:31:34 -0800
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Well, I think one should probably amend one's misinformation, even if
it's from one of those mini-op-eds I forward, from my radio, or print
stuff. 

I stopped into Sam's, on 45th Street, the other night, and it turns out
they're NOT being forced to close right away. They, along with Puleo's
and Frankie and Johnny's have been told they'll be shuttering in
anywhere from six months, to two years... 

It was just Barrymore's that exited, forever, the other evening. 

(And that just goes to show me what happens whenever I listen to a
Broadway waiter...) 

:-) 

But still sad, and strange, that half a block that has existed for well
beyond decades, won't. 

And equally odd, that no one still seems to know, what's going up
there... 

Jim Burns 
____ 

"When Runyon's Shadows, Shadow"
The Loss of a Few Great Broadway Joints 

Perhaps it was being at the sensational, record-breaking performance of
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, that has put me in a nostalgic mood, but I don't
think there's ever anything foolish about celebrating the past,
particularly if 
it has a pleasant foothold, on the future. 

Last week saw the closing of McHales, on 46th at 8th, a tavern famous
for food that was as plentiful, and good, as it was inexpensive--and a
haven for actors and stagehands. 

By the end of the month, we will have lost several other Broadway
institutions, to the vagaries of "redevelopment." 

Barrymore's on 45th, is the only place I can think of where actors are
still known to be-- consciously--partying at 3 AM, while doubling for
the rest of the day as a meeting place for the neigborhood's endless
stream of theatre folk, tourists, and "locals." 

The loss of that street's Frankie and Johnny's (part of which goes back
to Damon Runyon's speakeasy days), Sam's, and Puleo's, is no less sad,
for their patrons. 

Progress, generally, isn't supposed to mean the end of something that
already works. And I can't help but think that at some point in the
future, a theme park entrepeneur will decide to construct a "Broadway
block," of themed bars, and eateries. 

It's fascinating that for the not too many-remaining moments, such a
magic corridor, already exists. 

And secret labyrinths beneath our city's streets aside, I will miss
these oases, of the night. 

James H. Burns
January, 2006 

From jameshburns at webtv.net  Sun Feb  5 10:54:20 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Sun Feb  5 11:08:35 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Maximize...
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Sun, 5 Feb 2006
	11:02:42 -0800
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Again, forget about how you feel about this issue, but benefit from the
spectacular lesson, in how to ORGANIZE...


"Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive" 
By JODI WILGOREN 

SEATTLE - When President Bush plunged into the debate over the teaching
of evolution this month, saying, "both sides ought to be properly
taught," he seemed to be reading from the playbook of the Discovery
Institute, the conservative think tank here that is at the helm of this
newly volatile frontier in the nation's culture wars. 

After toiling in obscurity for nearly a decade, the institute's Center
for Science and Culture has emerged in recent months as the ideological
and strategic backbone behind the eruption of skirmishes over science in
school districts and state capitals across the country. Pushing a "teach
the controversy" approach to evolution, the institute has in many ways
transformed the debate into an issue of academic freedom rather than a
confrontation between biology and religion. Mainstream scientists reject
the notion that any controversy over evolution even exists. 
But Mr. Bush embraced the institute's talking points by suggesting that
alternative theories and criticism should be included in biology
curriculums "so people can understand what the debate is about." 

Financed by some of the same Christian conservatives who helped Mr. Bush
win the White House, the organization's intellectual core is a scattered
group of scholars who for nearly a decade have explored the unorthodox
explanation of life's origins known as intelligent design. Together,
they have mounted a politically savvy challenge to evolution as the
bedrock of modern biology, propelling a fringe academic movement onto
the front pages and putting Darwin's defenders firmly on the defensive. 

Like a well-tooled electoral campaign, the Discovery Institute has a
carefully crafted, poll-tested message, lively Web logs - and millions
of dollars from foundations run by prominent conservatives like Howard
and Roberta Ahmanson, Philip F. Anschutz and Richard Mellon Scaife. The
institute opened an office in Washington last fall and in January hired
the same Beltway public relations firm that promoted the Contract With
America in 1994. 

"We are in the very initial stages of a scientific revolution," said the
center's director, Stephen C. Meyer, 47, a historian and philosopher of
science recruited by Discovery after he protested a professor's being
punished for criticizing Darwin in class. "We want to have an effect on
the dominant view of our culture." 
For the institute's president, Bruce K. Chapman, a Rockefeller
Republican turned Reagan conservative, intelligent design appealed to
his contrarian, futuristic sensibilities - and attracted wealthy,
religious philanthropists like the Ahmansons at a time when his
organization was surviving on a shoestring. 
More student of politics than science geek, Mr. 

Chapman embraced the evolution controversy as the institute's signature
issue precisely because of its unpopularity in the establishment. 

"When someone says there's one thing you can't talk about, that's what I
want to talk about," said Mr. Chapman, 64. 

As much philosophical worldview as scientific hypothesis, intelligent
design challenges Darwin's theory of natural selection by arguing that
some organisms are too complex to be explained by evolution alone,
pointing to the possibility of supernatural influences. While mutual
acceptance of evolution and the existence of God appeals instinctively
to a faithful public, intelligent design is shunned as heresy in
mainstream universities and science societies as untestable in
laboratories. 

>From its nondescript office suites here, the institute has provided an
institutional home for the dissident thinkers, pumping $3.6 million in
fellowships of $5,000 to $60,000 per year to 50 researchers since the
science center's founding in 1996. Among the fruits are 50 books on
intelligent design, many published by religious presses like
InterVarsity or Crossway, and two documentaries that were broadcast
briefly on public television. But even as the institute spearheads the
intellectual development of intelligent design, it has staked out safer
turf in the public policy sphere, urging states and school boards simply
to include criticism in evolution lessons rather than actually teach
intelligent design. 

Since the presidential election last fall, the movement has made inroads
and evolution has emerged as one of the country's fiercest cultural
battlefronts, with the National Center for Science Education tracking 78
clashes in 31 states, more than twice the typical number of incidents.
Discovery leaders have been at the heart of the highest-profile
developments: helping a Roman Catholic cardinal place an opinion article
in The New York Times in which he sought to distance the church from
evolution; showing its film promoting design and purpose in the universe
at the Smithsonian; and lobbying the Kansas Board of Education in May to
require criticism of evolution. 

These successes follow a path laid in a 1999 Discovery manifesto known
as the Wedge Document, which sought "nothing less than the overthrow of
materialism and its cultural legacies" in favor of a "broadly theistic
understanding of nature." 

President Bush's signature education law, known as No Child Left Behind,
also helped, as mandatory testing prompted states to rewrite curriculum
standards. Ohio, New Mexico and Minnesota have embraced the institute's
"teach the controversy" approach; Kansas is expected to follow suit in
the fall. 

Detractors dismiss Discovery as a fundamentalist front and intelligent
design as a clever rhetorical detour around the 1987 Supreme Court
ruling banning creationism from curriculums. But the institute's
approach is more nuanced, scholarly and politically adept than its
Bible-based predecessors in the century-long battle over biology. A
closer look shows a multidimensional organization, financed by
missionary and mainstream groups - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
provides $1 million a year, including $50,000 of Mr. Chapman's $141,000
annual salary - and asserting itself on questions on issues as varied as
local transportation and foreign affairs. 

Many of the research fellows, employees and board members are, indeed,
devout and determinedly conservative; pictures of William J. Bennett,
the moral crusader and former drug czar, are fixtures on office walls,
and some leaders have ties to movement mainstays like Focus on the
Family. All but a few in the organization are Republicans, though these
include moderates drawn by the institute's pragmatic, iconoclastic
approach on nonideological topics like technology. But even as
intelligent design has helped raise Discovery's profile, the institute
is starting to suffer from its success. Lately, it has tried to distance
itself from lawsuits and legislation that seek to force schools to add
intelligent design to curriculums, placing it in the awkward spot of
trying to promote intelligent design as a robust frontier for scientists
but not yet ripe for students. The group is also fending off attacks
from the left, as critics liken it to Holocaust deniers or the Taliban.
Concerned about the criticism, Discovery's Cascadia project, which
focuses on regional transportation and is the recipient of the large
grant from the Gates Foundation, created its own Web site to ensure an
individual identity. "All ideas go through three stages - first they're
ignored, then they're attacked, then they're accepted," said Jay W.
Richards, a philosopher and the institute's vice president. "We're kind
of beyond the ignored stage. We're somewhere in the attack." 

Founded in 1990 as a branch of the Hudson Institute, based in
Indianapolis, the institute was named for the H.M.S. Discovery, which
explored Puget Sound in 1792. Mr. Chapman, a co-author of a 1966
critique of Barry M. Goldwater's anti-civil-rights campaign, "The Party
That Lost Its Head," had been a liberal Republican on the Seattle City
Council and candidate for governor, but moved to the right in the Reagan
administration, where he served as director of the Census Bureau and
worked for Edwin Meese III. 

In late 1993, Mr. Chapman clipped an essay in The Wall Street Journal by
Dr. Meyer, who was teaching at a Christian college in Spokane, Wash.,
concerning a biologist yanked from a lecture hall for discussing
intelligent design. 

About a year later, over dinner at the Sorrento Hotel here, Dr. Meyer
and George Gilder, Mr. Chapman's long-ago Harvard roommate and his
writing partner, discovered parallel theories of mind over materialism
in their separate studies of biology and economics. "Bruce kind of
perked up and said, 'This is what makes a think tank,' " Dr. Meyer
recalled. "There was kind of an 'Aha!' moment in the conversation, there
was a common metaphysic in these two ideas." 

That summer of 1995, Mr. Chapman and Dr. Meyer had dinner with a
representative of the Ahmansons, the banking billionaires from Orange
County, Calif., who had previously given a small grant to the institute
and underwritten an early conclave of intelligent design scholars. Dr.
Meyer, who had grown friendly enough with the Ahmansons to tutor their
young son in science, recalled being asked, "What could you do if you
had some financial backing?" 

So in 1996, with the promise of $750,000 over three years from the
Ahmansons and a smaller grant from the MacLellan Foundation, which
supports organizations "committed to furthering the Kingdom of Christ,"
according to its Web site, the institute's Center for Science and
Culture was born. 

"Bruce is a contrarian, and this was a contrarian idea," said Edward J.
Larson, the historian and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the
Scopes Monkey Trial, who was an early fellow at the institute, but left
in part because of its drift to the right. "The institute was living
hand-to-mouth. Here was an academic, credible activity that involved
funders. It interested conservatives. It brought in money." 

The institute would not provide details about its backers "because they
get harassed," Mr. Chapman said. But a review of tax documents on
www.guidestar.org, a Web site that collects data on foundations, showed
its grants and gifts jumped to $4.1 million in 2003 from $1.4 million in
1997, the most recent and oldest years available. The records show
financial support from 22 foundations, at least two-thirds of them with
explicitly religious missions. 

There is the Henry P. and Susan C. Crowell Trust of Colorado Springs,
whose Web site describes its mission as "the teaching and active
extension of the doctrines of evangelical Christianity." There is also
the AMDG Foundation in Virginia, run by Mark Ryland, a Microsoft
executive turned Discovery vice president: the initials stand for Ad
Majorem Dei Glorium, Latin for "To the greater glory of God," which Pope
John Paul II etched in the corner of all his papers. And the Stewardship
Foundation, based in Tacoma, Wash., whose Web site says it was created
"to contribute to the propagation of the Christian Gospel by evangelical
and missionary work," gave the group more than $1 million between 1999
and 2003. 

By far the biggest backers of the intelligent design efforts are the
Ahmansons, who have provided 35 percent of the science center's $9.3
million since its inception and now underwrite a quarter of its $1.3
million annual operations. Mr. Ahmanson also sits on Discovery's board.
The Ahmansons' founding gift was joined by $450,000 from the MacLellan
Foundation, based in Chattanooga, Tenn. 

"We give for religious purposes," said Thomas H. McCallie III, its
executive director. "This is not about science, and Darwin wasn't about
science. Darwin was about a metaphysical view of the world." The
institute also has support from secular groups like the Verizon
Foundation and the Gates Foundation, which gave $1 million in 2000 and
pledged $9.35 million over 10 years in 2003. Greg Shaw, a grant maker at
the Gates Foundation, said the money was "exclusive to the Cascadia
project" on regional transportation. 

But the evolution controversy has cost it the support of the Bullitt
Foundation, based here, which gave $10,000 in 2001 for transportation,
as well as the John Templeton Foundation in Pennsylvania, whose Web site
defines it as devoted to pursuing "new insights between theology and
science." 

Denis Hayes, director of the Bullitt Foundation, described Discovery in
an e-mail message as "the institutional love child of Ayn Rand and Jerry
Falwell," saying, "I can think of no circumstances in which the Bullitt
Foundation would fund anything at Discovery today." 

Charles L. Harper Jr., the senior vice president of the Templeton
Foundation, said he had rejected the institute's entreaties since
providing $75,000 in 1999 for a conference in which intelligent design
proponents confronted critics. "They're political - that for us is
problematic," Mr. Harper said. While Discovery has "always claimed to be
focused on the science," he added, "what I see is much more focused on
public policy, on public persuasion, on educational advocacy and so
forth." 

For three years after completing graduate school in 1996, William A.
Dembski could not find a university job, but he nonetheless received
what he called "a standard academic salary" of $40,000 a year. 

"I was one of the early beneficiaries of Discovery largess," said Dr.
Dembski, whose degrees include a doctorate in mathematics from the
University of Chicago, one in philosophy from the University of Illinois
and a master's of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Since its founding in 1996, the science center has spent 39 percent of
its $9.3 million on research, Dr. Meyer said, underwriting books or
papers, or often just paying universities to release professors from
some teaching responsibilities so that they can ponder intelligent
design. Over those nine years, $792,585 financed laboratory or field
research in biology, paleontology or biophysics, while $93,828 helped
graduate students in paleontology, linguistics, history and philosophy.
The 40 fellows affiliated with the science center are an eclectic group,
including David Berlinski, an expatriate mathematician living in Paris
who described his only religion to be "having a good time all the time,"
and Jonathan Wells, a member of the Unification Church, led by the Rev.
Sun Myung Moon, who once wrote in an essay, "My prayers convinced me
that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism." Their credentials
- advanced degrees from Stanford, Columbia, Yale, the University of
Texas, the University of California - are impressive, but their ideas
are often ridiculed in the academic world. "They're interested in the
same things I'm interested in - no one else is," Guillermo Gonzalez, 41,
an astronomer at the University of Iowa, said of his colleagues at
Discovery. "What I'm doing, frankly, is frowned upon by most of my
colleagues. It's not something a 'scientist' is supposed to do." Other
than Dr. Berlinski, most fellows, like their financiers, are
fundamentalist Christians, though they insist their work is serious
science, not closet creationism. "I believe that God created the
universe," Dr. Gonzalez said. "What I don't know is whether that
evidence can be tested objectively. I ask myself the tough questions." 

Discovery sees the focus on its fellows and financial backers as a
diversionary tactic by its opponents. "We're talking about evidence, and
they want to talk about us," Dr. Meyer said. But Philip Gold, a former
fellow who left in 2002, said the institute had grown increasingly
religious. "It evolved from a policy institute that had a religious
focus to an organization whose primary mission is Christian
conservatism," he said. 

That was certainly how many people read the Wedge Document, a five-page
outline of a five-year plan for the science center that originated as a
fund-raising pitch but was soon posted on the Internet by critics.
"Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the
materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with
Christian and theistic convictions," the document says. Among its
promises are seminars "to encourage and equip believers with new
scientific evidence that support the faith, as well as to 'popularize'
our ideas in the broader culture." 

One sign of any political movement's advancement is when adherents begin
to act on their own, often without the awareness of the leadership.
That, according to institute officials, is what happened in 1999, when a
new conservative majority on the Kansas Board of Education shocked the
nation - and their potential allies here at the institute - by dropping
all references to evolution from the state's science standards. "When
there are all these legitimate scientific controversies, this was silly,
outlandish, counterproductive," said John G. West, associate director of
the science center, who said he and his colleagues learned of that 1999
move in Kansas from newspaper accounts. "We began to think, 'Look, we're
going to be stigmatized with what everyone does if we don't make our
position clear.' " 

Out of this developed Discovery's "teach the controversy" approach,
which endorses evolution as a staple of any biology curriculum - so long
as criticism of Darwin is also in the lesson plan. This satisfied
Christian conservatives but also appealed to Republican moderates and,
under the First Amendment banner, much of the public (71 percent in a
Discovery-commissioned Zogby poll in 2001 whose results were mirrored in
newspaper polls). 

A watershed moment came with the adoption in 2001 of the No Child Left
Behind Act, whose legislative history includes a passage that comes
straight from the institute's talking points. "Where biological
evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand
why this subject generates so much continuing controversy," was language
that Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, tried to
include. 

Pointing to that principle, institute fellows in 2002 played important
roles in pushing the Ohio Board of Education to adopt a "teach the
controversy" approach and helped devise a curriculum to support it. The
following year, they successfully urged changes to textbooks in Texas to
weaken the argument for evolution, and they have been consulted in
numerous other cases as school districts or states consider changing
their approach to biology. 

But this spring, at the hearings in Kansas, Mr. Chapman grew visibly
frustrated as his supposed allies began talking more and more about
intelligent design. 

John Calvert, the managing director of the Intelligent Design Network,
based in Kansas, said the institute had the intellectual and financial
resources to "lead the movement" but was "more cautious" than he would
like. "They want to avoid the discussion of religion because that
detracts from the focus on the science," he said. Dr. West, who leads
the science center's public policy efforts, said it did not support
mandating the teaching of intelligent design because the theory was not
yet developed enough and there was no appropriate curriculum. So the
institute has opposed legislation in Pennsylvania and Utah that pushes
intelligent design, instead urging lawmakers to follow Ohio's lead. 

"A lot of people are trying to hijack the issue on both the left and the
right," Dr. West said. 

Dr. Chapman, for his part, sees even these rough spots as signs of
success. 

"All ideas that achieve a sort of uniform acceptance ultimately fall
apart whether it's in the sciences or philosophy or politics after a few
people keep knocking away at it," he said. 

"It's wise for society not to punish those people." 


Article Published August 21, 2005 

Correction: Aug. 24, 2005, Wednesday: 
A front-page article on Sunday about the Discovery Institute, which
promotes the concept known as intelligent design to explain the origins
of life, referred incorrectly to the religious affiliation of the
institute's fellows. Most are conservative Christians, including Roman
Catholics and evangelical Protestants - not fundamentalist Christians.
The article also referred incorrectly to recent changes in science
standards adopted by Ohio, Minnesota and New Mexico. While those states
encourage critical analysis of evolution, they did not necessarily
embrace the institute's "teach the controversy" approach. The article
also misstated the university affiliation of Guillermo Gonzalez, a
teacher of astronomy who is a senior fellow at the institute's Center
for Science and Culture. He is an assistant professor at Iowa State
University, not the University of Iowa. 

Correction: Aug. 25, 2005, Thursday: 
A front-page article on Sunday about the Discovery Institute, which
promotes the concept known as intelligent design to explain the origins
of life, misspelled part of the Latin phrase meaning "To the greater
glory of God,'' the basis of the name of the AMDG Foundation, 

Jack Begg, David Bernstein and Alain Delaqu?ri?re contributed
reporting for this article. 

? Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company


From bev at beverlybremers.com  Sun Feb  5 12:19:45 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Sun Feb  5 12:33:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The rehearsals
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Thanks SOOO much, Sherwin, for the great pics! Who took them? Everybody
looked like they were having a blast. And they all looked wonderful (of
the folks I knew, like Zenobia, Ula, Dale, Natalie, Donnie, and of
course, you!). I hope they are all on this list, so we can chat.

Was any of it recorded?

Beverly


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  Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:35:27 -0800

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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Sun Feb  5 12:47:51 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The rehearsals
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You are welcome Beverly,

 

The photographer on www.aceross.com/tribe.htm is Maxine Fontaine, Alain
Fountains wife.

 

I am humbly acknowledging that was the photographer at the rehearsals.

 

There were two video crews.

http://www.goodnewsbroadcast.com will broadcast the video and interviews..

The other was for the Archives, by Jeff and Meredith.

 

The more I look at these photos and realize how incredible this event was
makes me think that this act should be singing at the Grammy's! 

 

There is nothing like this in the world! The message is so heartfelt and
timely.

 

"You can't stop talent". Ace Ross

  _____  

From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Bremers
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 12:20 PM
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] The rehearsals

 

Thanks SOOO much, Sherwin, for the great pics! Who took them? Everybody
looked like they were having a blast. And they all looked wonderful (of the
folks I knew, like Zenobia, Ula, Dale, Natalie, Donnie, and of course,
you!). I hope they are all on this list, so we can chat.

Was any of it recorded?

Beverly

 

 


 

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From lilacamy11 at yahoo.com  Mon Feb  6 12:41:28 2006
From: lilacamy11 at yahoo.com (Amy Kazan)
Date: Mon Feb  6 12:55:33 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Petition against Bush's wiretapping
In-Reply-To: <200602062000.k16K0E73005318@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <20060206204128.74140.qmail@web36609.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

This is from a mailing list I get. I think it's
critical that people don't sit by doing nothing when
our president is committing crimes and so many people
are excusing it and turning a blind eye.

-Amy

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Subject: The President Broke the Law

Hi,

President Bush admitted to personally authorizing
thousands of allegedly illegal wiretaps, and he
doesn't plan to stop. Circumventing the Constitution
is serious business.

This is a big moment. People from across the political
spectrum are standing together to protect the rule of
law and the principles that are core to our identity
as Americans.

Can you sign this petition to show Congress that
Americans want a thorough investigation of the
president's secret wiretapping program?

http://political.moveon.org/ruleoflaw/

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Feb  6 13:05:12 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon Feb  6 15:02:48 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] In Depth Study
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Robert sent this most interesting article, you might find it very
worthwhile.
Michael

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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Tue Feb  7 08:42:01 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Feb  7 08:57:19 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: Pass it on: Break up with Google this Valentine's Day
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV155524BADAE24FB2E953F3AB010@phx.gbl>

Google has aligned with China against Tibet...  NOT good.

peace,
barbara


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From: Students for a Free Tibet
Sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:18:45 -0800
To: Barbara Siomos
Subject: Pass it on: Break up with Google this Valentine's Day

Break up with Google this Valentine's Day.

On Tuesday, February 14th join the No Luv 4 Google campaign and
protest Google's partnership with the Chinese government in
censoring and distorting the truth. More than just blocking
access to "politically sensitive information" (as if that wasn't
bad enough), Google now directs users in China, Tibet and other
Chinese-occupied territories to the wrong information -
propaganda Beijing wants them to see.

We've created a special site just for this campaign. Visit:
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This Valentine's Day, show you have a heart for freedom and
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1) Break up with Google - Make a pledge now to boycott Google
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list of Google offices worldwide.
3) Find an alternative to Google, go to:
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For too long western businesses have told us their presence in
China would bring openness and democracy, but instead, China has
changed our businesses to become more closed and repressive.
While Tibetans and others suffering under Beijing's brutal rule
look to the free world to help, most corporations and
governments are selling them out. And now Google, one of the
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leaders, has sold them out too.

On February 14th, stand up for freedom and human rights and show
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to take action and tell Yahoo!, Microsoft & Cisco Systems you
don't love them either.
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From michael at intrafi.com  Tue Feb  7 10:56:58 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Tue Feb  7 11:18:20 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Helping Bill O'Reilly
Message-ID: <20060207185658.24CDD13B84F@lax-gw04.mroute.net>

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OPINION | February 7, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Helping Bill O'Reilly
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Help sponsor a trip by Mr. O'Reilly to Darfur, where he can use his television savvy to thunder against something actually meriting his blustery rage.
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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Tue Feb  7 13:41:51 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Tue Feb  7 13:59:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fw: Pass it on: Break up with Google this
	Valentine's Day
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-DAV155524BADAE24FB2E953F3AB010@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY114-DAV155524BADAE24FB2E953F3AB010@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20060207134151.ioeitvr42zkg0404@208.179.130.20>

Quoting Barbara Siomos <barbarasiomos38@msn.com>:

> Google has aligned with China against Tibet...  NOT good.

Uhh...you sure about that?? I find it strange that it's not on any 
major news outlets -- especially Yahoo! News's Tech Tuesday...

Smells like a legend to me...why the heck would a search engine portal 
partner up with a GOVERNMENT?

-- 
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Feb  8 10:53:08 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Feb  8 11:07:43 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Matter of Your Health
Message-ID: <C00F7E15.28C63%michael@michaelbutler.com>

My doctor sent this.
Michael

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb  8 10:57:31 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb  8 11:11:56 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Matter of Your Health
References: <C00F7E15.28C63%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <012401c62ce1$83d25060$f1476c42@hotprojects>

you scared me michael when you said your doctor
we love you too much for you to have health problems

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Feb  8 11:18:30 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Feb  8 11:32:43 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Matter of Your Health
In-Reply-To: <012401c62ce1$83d25060$f1476c42@hotprojects>
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Thanks
I am in great health due to his guidance.


> you scared me michael when you said your doctor
> we love you too much for you to have health problems
> 
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From michael at intrafi.com  Wed Feb  8 11:54:01 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Feb  8 12:08:19 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: No More Mr. Tough Guy
Message-ID: <20060208195401.5B4BD9FD8A@lax-gw05.mroute.net>

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OPINION | February 8, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: No More Mr. Tough Guy
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Dick Cheney's position that we have no choice but to be dependent on crude oil is not very tough, it's not very smart, and it's going to end badly for us.
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb  8 11:54:23 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb  8 12:08:38 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Matter of Your Health
References: <C00F8406.28C6C%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <01b701c62ce9$75b7cde0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

his guidance and you have the constitution of a cossack
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:18 PM
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> Thanks
> I am in great health due to his guidance.
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From michael at intrafi.com  Wed Feb  8 11:54:42 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Feb  8 12:08:54 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming
	Initiative
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NATIONAL | February 8, 2006
Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Despite opposition from some colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders are backing a major initiative to fight global warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/national/08warm.html?ex=1140066000&en=cf8a5f3bbb448ffb&ei=5070&emc=eta1



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Date: Wed Feb  8 12:31:42 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Music019s
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From michael at intrafi.com  Wed Feb  8 16:52:25 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael butler)
Date: Wed Feb  8 17:03:45 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] TruthDig: Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam
Message-ID: <43ea92499794a@intrafi.com>

Hi,

 I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting.

 =-=-=-=-=-=-=
Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam

"The truth about Islam is as politically incorrect as it is terrifying: 
Islam is all fringe and no center,” writes America’s most prominent 
secularist in a challenging and provocative new essay.UPDATE: Harris 
responds to a deluge of comments and some criticism. 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060207_reality_islam/

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From nycrjmac at yahoo.com  Thu Feb  9 06:30:05 2006
From: nycrjmac at yahoo.com (RJ Mac)
Date: Thu Feb  9 06:44:22 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
In-Reply-To: <003a01c624e0$4dbb42b0$f1476c42@hotprojects>
Message-ID: <20060209143005.31128.qmail@web31612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Finally the first review for "Follies of Grandeur" has
appeared: I hope the rest a)appear, and b) are as
favorable.

It's going well and looking good.

rj

http://www.theaterscene.net/ts/articles.nsf/OBP/E0BAA0218A7277698525710A0069875B

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb  9 06:38:12 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb  9 06:52:28 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
References: <20060209143005.31128.qmail@web31612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <000f01c62d86$74a55e20$f1476c42@hotprojects>

mazel tov rj
you need to show this to some west coast people
for whom this would be especially relevant i think
mazel tov kudos
all good things to you
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> Finally the first review for "Follies of Grandeur" has
> appeared: I hope the rest a)appear, and b) are as
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>
> It's going well and looking good.
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> rj
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From michael at intrafi.com  Thu Feb  9 11:34:55 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Thu Feb  9 11:50:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Drafting Hitler
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OPINION | February 9, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Drafting Hitler
By DAVID BROOKS
A clash of cartoons, and civilizations.
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Fri Feb 10 09:25:10 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Fri Feb 10 09:39:54 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Shalom, Dalai
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'Caching up on my science reading, again....
________
 
'The Universe in a Single Atom': Reason and Faith 

Review, By GEORGE JOHNSON 

It's been a brutal season in the culture wars with both the White House
and a prominent Catholic cardinal speaking out in favor of creationist
superstition, while public schools and even natural history museums shy
away from teaching evolutionary science. When I picked up the Dalai
Lama's new book, "The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of
Science and Spirituality," I feared that His Holiness, the leader of
Tibetan Buddhism, was adding to the confusion between reason and faith. 

It was his subtitle that bothered me. Spirituality is about the
ineffable and unprovable, science about the physical world of
demonstrable fact. Faced with two such contradictory enterprises,
divergence would be a better goal. The last thing anyone needs is
another attempt to contort biology to fit a particular religion or to
use cosmology to prove the existence of God. 

But this book offers something wiser: a compassionate and clearheaded
account by a religious leader who not only respects science but, for the
most part, embraces it. "If scientific analysis were conclusively to
demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept
the findings of science and abandon those claims," he writes. No one who
wants to understand the world "can ignore the basic insights of theories
as key as evolution, relativity and quantum mechanics." That is an
extraordinary concession compared with the Christian apologias that
dominate conferences devoted to reconciling science and religion. The
"dialogues" implicitly begin with nonnegotiables - "Given that Jesus
died on the cross and was bodily resurrected into heaven. . ." - then
seek scientific justification for what is already assumed to be true. 

The story of how someone so open-minded became the Tibetan Buddhist
equivalent of the pope reads like a fairy tale. When the 13th Dalai Lama
died in 1933 he was facing northeast, so a spiritual search team was
sent in that direction to find his reincarnation. The quest narrowed
further when a lama had a vision pointing to a certain house with
unusual gutters. Inside a boy called out to the visitors, who showed him
some toys and relics that would have belonged to him in his previous
life. "It is mine!" he exclaimed, like any acquisitive 2-year-old, and
so his reign began. 

Once installed in Lhasa, the new Dalai Lama happened upon another of his
forerunner's possessions, a collapsible brass telescope. 
When he focused it one evening on what Tibetans call "the rabbit on the
moon," he saw that it consisted of shadows cast by craters. 

Although he knew nothing yet about astronomy, he inferred that the moon,
like the earth, must be lighted by the sun. He had experienced the
thrill of discovery. Before long he was dismantling and repairing clocks
and watches and tinkering with car engines and an old movie projector.
As he grew older and traveled the world, he was as keen to meet with
scientists and philosophers - David Bohm, Carl von Weizs?cker, Karl
Popper - as with religious and political leaders. More recently his
"Mind and Life" conferences have brought physicists, cosmologists,
biologists and psychologists to Dharamsala, India, where he now lives in
exile from the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He and his guests discuss
things like the neuroscientific basis of Buddhist meditation and the
similarities between Eastern concepts like the "philosophy of emptiness"
and modern field theory. In "The Universe in a Single Atom" he tells how
he walked the mountains around his home trying to persuade hermits to
contribute to scientific understanding by meditating with electrodes on
their heads. 

But when it comes to questions about life and its origins, this would-be
man of science begins to waver. Though he professes to accept
evolutionary theory, he recoils at one of its most basic tenets: that
the mutations that provide the raw material for natural selection occur
at random. Look deeply enough, he suggests, and the randomness will turn
out to be complexity in disguise - "hidden causality," the Buddha's
smile. There you have it, Eastern religion's version of intelligent
design. He also opposes physical explanations for consciousness,
invoking instead the existence of some kind of irreducible mind stuff,
an idea rejected long ago by mainstream science. Some members of the
Society for Neuroscience are understandably uneasy that he has been
invited to give a lecture at their annual meeting this November. 

In a petition, they protested that his topic, the science of meditation,
is known for "hyperbolic claims, limited research and compromised
scientific rigor." 

There may be a political subtext to the controversy. According to an
article in Nature, many of the petitioners are Chinese. But however
mixed their motivation, they make a basic philosophical point. All
religion is rooted in a belief in the supernatural. Inviting a holy man
to address a scientific conference may be leaving the back door ajar for
ghosts. 
______

THE UNIVERSE IN A SINGLE ATOM 
The Convergence of Science and Spirituality. By the Dalai Lama. 
216 pp. Morgan Road Books. $24.95. 


Review, Published September 18, 2005

George Johnson, the author of "Miss Leavitt's Stars," was a recipient
this year of a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship in Science and
Religion. 

? Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company


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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Feb 10 11:48:03 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Trapped Like a Rat     By William Rivers Pitt
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    Trapped Like a Rat
    By William Rivers Pitt
    t r u t h o u t | Perspective

    Thursday 09 February 2006

    The funeral for civil rights leader Coretta Scott King on Tuesday was
quite a sight to see. The depth of sadness in the room could not be overcome
by the happiness that came with the celebration of her life and
accomplishments. It was the measure of Mrs. King's impact upon our society
that four presidents - Carter, Bush, Clinton and Bush - sat before her
flower-draped casket and spoke of her life.

    And then, of course, the foolishness began. The nattering nabobs of
network nonsense blithered into their cable news studios to deplore all the
political statements that were served up before the appreciative crowd in
that church. It was the Wellstone funeral all over again.

    Let's be clear. The life of Coretta Scott King was one that involved
politics from every angle. Any lifelong struggle against poverty, racism and
war is going to be a life immersed in politics. That is simply the way it
is; because so many politicians and political ideologies center around
statements and legislation that directly add to the burdens of the poor and
minorities, any person choosing to fight poverty and racism is going to wind
up dealing in politics.

    Gandhi was elected to no office in his entire lifetime, but every action
he took involved politics. The same can be said for Martin Luther King Jr.,
who won no elections but changed politics in America forever. Coretta Scott
King held no office, but her work affected the politics of this country in
every way. Ask Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan, who received a warm telephone
call from Mrs. King while standing vigil outside George W. Bush's ranch in
Crawford last August. If this was not a political act, then political acts
do not exist.

    Politics belonged in that church on Tuesday. Period.

    A good deal of the humbug arising from the political statements at the
funeral are based upon the fact that George W. Bush changed his schedule to
appear at the event. Because he did this, the thinking goes, he should be
above the pointed criticism he absorbed up on that stage. Smart money says
he came to the funeral only to avoid the criticism he would have received
had he not shown up with those three other presidents. Smart money likewise
says he came to try and shore up his poll numbers with African Americans;
his support among this constituency stands in the low single digits, well
within the margin of error in any poll, suggesting his actual support among
this group is zero. This is, however, an issue for another day.

    The central tenet of the civil rights movement has, is and will always
be one simple truth: one must speak truth to power in order to affect
change. This was the maxim by which Coretta Scott King lived her life, and
the maxim by which her husband lived and ultimately died by. Had her funeral
not involved speaking truth to power, the ceremony would have been
incomplete. George W. Bush heard on Tuesday some hard truths that his
fanatical insulation has to date spared him from. It may have been the
healthiest moment this republic has absorbed in years.

    President Jimmy Carter, who has come to be one of the harshest critics
of Mr. Bush, hurled fire across the stage over the deplorable administration
response to Hurricane Katrina. "This commemorative ceremony this morning and
this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta
and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not
over," said Carter. "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those
in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by
Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all
Americans."

    Carter also took a moment to drop a brick over the recent revelations
that the NSA has been spying on Americans, without court approval or
warrants, at the behest of Mr. Bush. "It was difficult for them personally,"
said Carter, "with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as
they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance,
and as you know, harassment from the FBI."

    By far, the harshest criticism came from Rev. Joseph Lowery, a King
prot?g?, who spoke of Mrs. King's staunch opposition to the occupation of
Iraq. "She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way
afar," said Lowery. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction
over there. But Coretta knew, and we knew, that there are weapons of
misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty
abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."

    Would Coretta Scott King have approved of this? One can be certain that
the woman who said "If American women would increase their voting turnout by
ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in
programs benefiting women and children" would have certainly approved.

    This was a day for speaking truth to power, but it was more than that.
Mr. Bush and his people have worked incredibly hard to keep this president
from hearing anything that rubs against what he believes to be true. He
speaks before hand-picked crowds of adoring supporters, never once seeing
the face of someone who thinks he is running the nation into the ground.
Millions upon millions of protesters have followed his every move, and yet
it is almost certain he has never laid eyes upon a single one of them.

    On Tuesday, by his own design. George W. Bush was trapped like a rat on
that stage. He was forced to listen to eloquent denunciations of his
politics and his policies, perhaps for the first time since he took office.
The effect upon him was clear; during the speeches delivered by Rev. Lowery
and president Carter, Bush looked as if he was sucking on a particularly
bitter lemon.

    When one speaks truth to power, especially arrogant power, that is
usually the effect. Coretta Scott King would have approved.

 


From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Feb 10 12:11:15 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Feb 10 13:06:20 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] The Left Hand of God By Michael Lerner, AlterNet
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AlterNet
Excerpt: The Left Hand of God
By Michael Lerner, AlterNet
Posted on February 10, 2006, Printed on February 10, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/32037/

Editor's Note:The following is excerpted from The Left Hand of God: Taking
Our Country Back From the Religious Right, by Michael Lerner
(HarperSanFrancisco, Feb, 2006).

The unholy alliance of the political Right and Religious Right threatens to
destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular
revulsion against God and religion by identifying them with militarism,
ecological irresponsibility, fundamentalist antagonism to science and
rational thought, and insensitivity to the needs of the poor and the
powerless.

By addressing the real spiritual and moral crisis in the daily lives of most
Americans, a movement with a progressive spiritual vision would provide an
alternate solution to both the intolerant and militarist politics of the
Right and the current misguided, visionless, and often spiritually empty
politics of the Left.

People feel a near-desperate desire to reconnect to the sacred, to find some
way to unite their lives with a higher meaning and purpose and in particular
to that aspect of the sacred that is built upon the loving, kind, and
generous energy in the universe that I describe as the "Left Hand of God."

By contrast, the "Right Hand of God," sees the universe as a fundamentally
scary place filled with evil forces. In this view God is the avenger, the
big man in heaven who can be invoked to use violence to overcome those evil
forces, either right now or in some future ultimate reckoning. Seen through
the frame of the Right Hand of God, the world is filled with constant
dangers and the rational way to live is to dominate and control others
before they dominate and control us.

It is the search for meaning in a despiritualized world that leads many
people to right-wing religious communities because these groups seem to be
in touch with the sacred dimension of life. Many secularists imagine that
people drawn to the Right are there solely because of some ethical or
psychological malfunction. What they miss is that there are many very decent
Americans who get attracted to the Religious Right because it is the only
voice that they encounter that is willing to challenge the
despiritualization of daily life, to call for a life that is driven by
higher purpose than money, and to provide actual experiences of supportive
community for those whose daily life is suffused with alienation and
spiritual loneliness.

Many Americans have a powerful desire for loving connection, kindness,
generosity, awe and wonder, and joyous celebration of the universe. These
desires are frustrated by the way we organize our society today. A
progessive movement or a Democratic Party that speaks to these desires in a
genuine and spiritually deep way could win the popular support it needs to
create a world of peace, social justice, ecological sanity, and human
rights.

As I watch the likely Democratic Party candidates for president in 2008
scramble to position themselves as mainstream, I am all too aware that
taking this kind of spiritual politics seriously is going to require a huge
leap for many of us. Some Democrats think that they don't need these changes
to win power, and they may be right in the short run. The current implosion
of the Bush administration as it wallows in the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina, a failing war in Iraq, and scandal and indictments at the highest
levels of government, may be enough to provide Democrats with election
victories in 2006 and 2008 (though Republican redistricting is likely to
dampen the chance for a Democratic landslide in 2006, and electoral fraud
has increasingly characterized American national elections where so much is
at stake).

But Democrats have won elections, even the presidency, before--and yet the
movement of intellectual and political energy keeps on sliding to the Right,
and so Democrats in office often end up acting from the assumptions of the
Right in order to show that they are "realistic" and "non-ideological."

Nothing has been more dispiriting than to watch years in which Congressional
Democrats continued to vote for tens of billions of dollars to fund the war
in Iraq even after learning that the country had been lied to and
manipulated into that war. Even after conservative Democratic congressman
John Murtha called for immediate withdrawal from Iraq within six months in
November 2005, the Democrats were unable to firmly endorse that courageous
call.

Without a larger spiritual vision, the Democrats too often develop their
programs by poll data, reacting rather than leading. They may eventually
oppose a specific war, but they are afraid to oppose war. They throw money
to alleviate suffering from some particularly terrible social injustice, but
they are afraid to envision and fight for an end to all social injustice.

Let me reassure you that the spiritual vision I present is not an attempt to
recruit you to some particular religious community or spiritual trip. You do
not have to become religious to embrace a spiritual politics or to learn
from the wisdom of various spiritual practices.

I do not blame many secularists who resent the way that some in the
Religious Right seek to shove a fundamentalist and intolerant religion down
our throats. Almost every religion, like almost every political and
intellectual movement, has people of that sort, and holy texts (both
religious and secular) have voices that validate an oppressive, dominating,
fearful way of seeing. Yet in most religions (just as in many secular social
change movements and liberation ideologies) there are also voices of the
Left Hand of God, voices that embrace compassion, love, generosity of
spirit, kindness, peace, social justice, environmental sanity, and
nonviolence.

This political Right achieved power by forging an alliance with a Religious
Right that is willing to provide a sanctimonious religious veneer to the
selfishness and materialism of the political Right in exchange for the
political power it needs to impose parts of its religious agenda on America.
Capitalizing on a very real and deep spiritual crisis engendered by living
in a society that teaches "looking out for number one" as its highest value,
the Religious Right has managed to mobilize tens of millions of people to
vote for candidates who end up supporting the very economic arrangements and
political ideas responsible for creating the spiritual crisis in the first
place.

With this alliance now propelling them into control of Congress, the
presidency, and the judiciary, they have launched a cultural crusade against
liberals, secularists, activist judges, homosexuals, feminists, and anyone
who still believes in peace and social justice. The country received its
strongest alert to the nature of the assault on the American tradition of
religious tolerance when, in the spring of 2005, the Right began to talk
openly about impeaching from the judiciary "activist judges" who were
imposing "secular values" on the country, then managed to torpedo Bush's
nominee to the Supreme Court (Harriet Miers) and encouraged him to appoint
Samuel Alito, a sophisticated conservative ideologue.

Although I do not share the goals of many leaders of the Religious
Right--and in fact believe that they pose a huge danger to American
society--I must admit some appreciation for their willingness to state their
objectives clearly and honestly, a refreshing change from the diet of mush
that often emerges from the Democratic Party. Paul Weyrich, one of the
Right's most serious strategists, said it clearly in 1980: "We are talking
about Christianizing America. We are talking about simply spreading the
gospel in a political context." I was invited that same year to debate
Weyrich at the Moral Majority's annual Family Forum and found him a powerful
advocate for a frightening worldview that I hoped would remain marginal in
America. But twenty-five years later, having followed the advice of Jerry
Falwell, who famously said, "Get them saved, get them baptized, and get them
registered," the Christian Right is now carrying out its agenda.

It is perfectly legitimate to be alarmed at the growing power of those on
the Right and the way they use it, to challenge their ideas forcefully, and
to warn of the dangers should they succeed in their stated intentions. I
will certainly do everything I can to prevent them from popularizing the
notion that people have to be religious or believe in God to be moral and to
challenge their particular understanding of what God wants of us.

What I will not do, and what I urge my friends in liberal and progressive
movements not to do, is attribute evil motives to those on the Religious
Right or to view them as cynical manipulators solely interested in power and
self-aggrandizement. The Religious Right certainly has its share of power
mongers and hypocrites. But the vast majority of those involved are people
who are driven by principles and who want what is best for the world. We can
strongly disagree with those principles, as I do, and we can argue, as I
will, that they lead in a very dangerous direction, one that would actually
increase the pain and suffering of humanity. But I do not doubt the
sincerity or basic goodness of most of those who are involved.

So where are the Democrats, the liberals, and the progressive forces that
have traditionally been able to provide a counterweight to corporate
selfishness and have fought for separation of church and state?

For much of the past thirty years the Democrats have been more interested in
showing how similar they are to the Right than how different. Faced with
both a corporate takeover of the media that increasingly portrays liberal
and progressive ideas as some form of extremism or "class warfare" and with
a Religious Right that has managed to put secular people on the defensive,
the Democratic Party and much of the liberal and progressive world (which
for convenience I'll call the Left)* has contented itself with mild reforms.
It tinkers with narrow policy goals instead of promoting an alternative
vision and alternative values to those of the Right. Fearful of political
isolation, Democrats listen to the wisdom preached by the media and by a
bevy of corporate-friendly professional consultants who tell them to be
"realistic" by accepting the contours of politics as defined by the Right.
And the more they do so, the less anyone else sees these Democrats as a
viable alternative. Democratic voters lose their enthusiasm. They go to the
polls grudgingly, not because they believe that the Democrats have any
solutions but rather to stave off the even worse consequences of Republican
dominance. Many do not even bother voting, and millions of others look for
vision elsewhere--and find it in the Religious Right.

Others take the approach of the "let's-move-further-to-the-left" section of
the Left, insisting that the old formulas of the really radical Left, mixed
with a repackaging of identity politics and presented as economic populism,
would provide the magic formula, if only those Democrats would listen! But
meanwhile, they can't explain why their candidates, running in Democratic
primaries or as Greens, rarely manage to get significant support from
American voters. But the "let's-get-closer-to-the-middle-of-the-road" mavens
of Democratic leadership face that same challenge, since they've also tried
the "let's-be-softer-and-gentler-born-again Republicans" strategy, and it
too has failed.

We need to look deeper.

Liberals and progressives sometimes like to make fun of the Right by
pointing out that it is precisely in the Red states of the Republican
majority where abortions are most prevalent, where divorce is most rampant,
where the power of corporate selfishness is most unrestrained by laws, where
the malls have done most to uproot small businesses, and where materialism
on the whole seems to be having its greatest field day. The same is true for
many of the enclaves of Red-state consciousness in Blue states, such as the
gated communities and mostly white valleys of Southern California or the
suburban areas of many other Blue states. But that, of course, is just the
point. It is precisely because people in the Red states are suffering most
from the epidemic of uncontrolled me-firstism that so many residents of
those states are so desperate to find a counterforce. They are the most
susceptible to the appeals of a Religious Right that has become a champion
for family values, tradition, the stability that is offered by authoritarian
and patriarchal norms, and the real comfort that spiritual life offers
through connection to something higher than money.

The point is that there is a real spiritual crisis in American society, and
the Religious Right has managed to position itself as the articulator of the
pain that crisis causes and as the caring force that will provide a
spiritual solution. And then it takes the credibility that it has won in
this way and associates itself with a political Right that is actually
championing the very institutions and social arrangements that caused this
problem in the first place. And with the power that each of these has gained
by their alliance, they have become ever more arrogant in trying to impose
their worldview on everyone else in society. Their alliance threatens to
destroy the fragile balance between secular and religious people and to move
the United States toward the very kind of theocracy that people originally
came to this country to escape.

So, how could this happen?

It has happened because the political Left doesn't really have a clue about
the spiritual crisis in American society and is thus unable to address it in
any persuasive way. Witnessing the country give electoral victories to the
Right, those on the Left are totally confused about why it's happening. They
earnestly study poll data and then reposition themselves in ways that will
not put them too far beyond where they imagine popular opinion is moving. It
never occurs to them to be the shapers of this social energy instead of
merely the responders. For much of the past twenty-five years, since the
early days of the Reagan administration, the Democrats have explained their
electoral losses by claiming that the country is just in a "conservative
period," as though the political climate had fallen mysteriously from heaven
and had nothing to do with the way liberals failed to develop mass support
for a progressive worldview when they held political power. In this book I
will provide you with an explanation of why we got into a conservative
period and how that can be changed.

After the 2004 elections many Democrats read the exit-poll data and realized
that some voters were motivated by "values." Since then the Democrats have
been frantically looking for a magic bullet to win back the "values voters."
But mostly their discussion has been about hype, not about substance.

If we, the American people, are going to win back our country from the
Religious Right, we are going to have to reshape the Democratic Party and
the Greens, or create some other party, to come to grips with the depth of
alienation from liberal politics among the many people who continue to vote,
unenthusiastically, for the Democrats as the only way to stop the Right.

A reshaped Democratic Party, or a new party, must minimally:

    * Understand, acknowledge, and respond to the spiritual crisis in
American society--and provide a progressive spiritual vision that is more
attractive than the one currently offered by the Right.
    * Recognize that people hunger for a world that has meaning and love;
for a sense of aliveness, energy, and authenticity; for a life embedded in a
community in which they are valued
    * Reject the tendency to regard people who are not part of the liberal
culture as stupid, demented, or evil.
    * Fight for ideals that are not yet popular and be willing to stand for
those ideals even if that means temporarily losing some elections.
    * Unite secular people in a movement with "spiritual but not religious"
people and join both of those groups with progressive religious people.
    * Reject and combat the religion phobia that dominates important sectors
of liberal and progressive culture.

Only a political party that can incorporate these goals at the center of its
agenda can hope to win a majority, which would allow it to implement the
other peace, justice, and ecological goals of the liberal and progressive
agenda. For many Americans, meaning needs are the most pressing issues in
their lives. This hunger for meaning, mutual recognition, and a spiritual
foundation for their lives--for a sense of aliveness to counter the
emotional and spiritual deadness that people experience in work and on
television--is just as significant as the hunger for material well-being.
Hence these are not issues that can be addressed "later," after all the
peace and justice and ecological issues have been solved. These needs lie at
the center of many Americans' lives, and unless we address them powerfully
and convincingly, the Democrats and the Left will continue to lose power.

Rabbi Michael Lerner is the editor of Tikkun.
? 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/32037/


From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Fri Feb 10 13:11:18 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Fri Feb 10 13:25:36 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
In-Reply-To: <20060209143005.31128.qmail@web31612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F2873F50D9C116A9DBA7FF1B2020@phx.gbl>

That's fantastic, Ross! I am still hoping to get there to see it, although 
time is running short.

I'm starting the MacLean archives....:-)
Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
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>From: RJ Mac <nycrjmac@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:30:05 -0800 (PST)
>
>Finally the first review for "Follies of Grandeur" has
>appeared: I hope the rest a)appear, and b) are as
>favorable.
>
>It's going well and looking good.
>
>rj
>
>http://www.theaterscene.net/ts/articles.nsf/OBP/E0BAA0218A7277698525710A0069875B
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Fri Feb 10 16:26:51 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Feb 10 16:41:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for
	Olympics Protest
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV13B19A33E377B46ED44F01AB050@phx.gbl>

China has already started to jail the Tibetan Monks.... only for  a protest. :-(

peace,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Students for a Free Tibet
Sent: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:01:14 -0800
To: Barbara Siomos
Subject: Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for Olympics Protest


As the Winter Olympic Games open today in Turino, Italy, reports
from Tibet confirm that three nuns and two monks were imprisoned
for protesting the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and calling for
Tibetan independence. Tibet Watch has just confirmed that two of
the nuns, Tadrin Tsomo and Choekyi Drolma and one of the monks,
Dargye Gyatso were all sentenced to three years imprisonment for
distributing and posting protest fliers. The third nun, Yonten
Drolma and another monk, Jamyang Samdrub, were both sentenced to
one and a half years imprisonment. All five were arrested in May
2005 in Labrang County, Kham (south west region of Tibet). 

Please send the letter below to China's Minister of Justice,
Zhang Fusen, calling for their unconditional release.

You can take action on this alert either via email (please see
directions below) or via the web at:
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/urgentolympicsaction/deii8izp53nk7x?

Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/urgentolympicsaction/forward/deii8izp53nk7x?

We encourage you to take action by March 11, 2006

Urgent Action: Tibetan Monks & Nuns Imprisoned for Olympics
Protest

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB:
If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this
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Just choose the "reply to sender" option on your email program.

Your letter will be addressed and sent to:
Minister of Justice, Zhang Fusen 

----THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT IN YOUR NAME----
Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],

I am writing to express concern regarding the imprisonment of
three nuns, Tadrin Tsomo, Choekyi Drolma and Yonten Drolma from
Gendun Tengye Ling Nunnery, and two monks, Dargye Gyatso and
Jamyang Samdrub from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery. They were
detained for peacefully expressing their opinion and calling on
the Chinese Government to peacefully resolve the conflict in
Tibet.

Their arrest is a violation of Article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and Article 19 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which guarantee
the freedom of opinion and expression.

I call for the immediate and unconditional release of the five
monks and nuns arrested in May 2005, and for them to be allowed
to return to their respective monastery and nunnery.

----END OF LETTER TO BE SENT----

Sincerely,
Barbara Siomos

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From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Sat Feb 11 06:24:31 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Joe Papp...
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I wasn't always crazy about Joe Papp's taste, but this is a great
article...

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | David Hare remebers Joe Papp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1707153,00.html 

From richalmack at earthlink.net  Sat Feb 11 07:24:15 2006
From: richalmack at earthlink.net (Rich Almack)
Date: Sat Feb 11 07:39:02 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Joe Papp...
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Message-ID: <000901c62f1f$38a30fe0$0200a8c0@Sally>

I'll say it is.  Thank's for the link! 

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: [Mb-hair] Joe Papp...


I wasn't always crazy about Joe Papp's taste, but this is a great article...

Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | David Hare remebers Joe Papp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1707153,00.html 

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sat Feb 11 07:39:57 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sat Feb 11 07:54:22 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Joe Papp...
References: <000901c62f1f$38a30fe0$0200a8c0@Sally>
Message-ID: <00b901c62f21$69c6f2b0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

whatevr happened to myrna lamb
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> I'll say it is.  Thank's for the link!
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> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:10 AM
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> Subject: [Mb-hair] Joe Papp...
>
>
> I wasn't always crazy about Joe Papp's taste, but this is a great
article...
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> Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | David Hare remebers Joe Papp
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From michael at intrafi.com  Sat Feb 11 10:40:20 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Sat Feb 11 10:55:03 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Smoking Dutch Cleanser
Message-ID: <20060211184020.C1D983AE6F8@lax-gw06.mroute.net>

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Wait until you read the last paragraph Michael


OPINION | February 11, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Smoking Dutch Cleanser
By MAUREEN DOWD
The president and Vice President Strangelove have cynically played the terror card to accrue power and sidestep blame.
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Date: Sat Feb 11 11:03:27 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: And on the Eighth Day, God Went Green
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OPINION | February 11, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: And on the Eighth Day, God Went Green
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As Audience Shrinks, the Met Gets Daring
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Peter Gelb, who takes over in August as the Met's first new general manager in 16 years, has laid out broad-ranging plans to remake the venerable house.
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Date: Sat Feb 11 12:27:27 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] FULTON, MO Bans GREASE and THE CRUCIBLE
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NEW YORK TIMES
February 11, 2006
 
In Small Town, 'Grease' Ignites a Culture War

By DIANA JEAN  SCHEMO
For the New York Times

FULTON, Mo. ? When Wendy DeVore, the  drama teacher at Fulton High
here, staged the musical "Grease," about high  school students in the
1950's, she carefully changed the script to avoid  causing offense in
this small town.

She softened the language,  substituting slang for profanity in
places. Instead of smoking "weed," the  teenagers duck out for a
cigarette. She rated the production PG-13, advising  parents it was
not suitable for small children.

But a month after the  performances in November, three letters
arrived on the desk of Mark Enderle,  Fulton's superintendent of
schools. Although the letters did not say so, the  three writers were
members of a small group linked by e-mail, all members of  the same
congregation, Callaway Christian Church.

Each criticized the  show, complaining that scenes of drinking,
smoking and a couple kissing went  too far, and glorified conduct
that the community tries to discourage. One  letter, from someone who
had not seen the show but only heard about it,  criticized "immoral
behavior veiled behind the excuse of acting out a  play."

Dr. Enderle watched a video of the play, ultimately  agreeing
that "Grease" was unsuitable for the high school, despite his  having
approved it beforehand, without looking at the script. Hoping  to
avoid similar complaints in the future, he decided to ban the
scheduled  spring play, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller.

"That was me in my worst  Joe McCarthy moment, to some," Dr. Enderle
said.

He called "The  Crucible" "a fine play," but said he dropped it to
keep the school from being  "mired in controversy" all spring.

To many, the term "culture war" evokes  national battles over new
frontiers in taste and decency, over violence in  video games, or
profanity in music or on television. But such battles are  also
fought in small corners of the country like Fulton, a  conservative
town of about 10,000, where it can take only a few objections  about
library books or high school plays to shift quietly the  cultural
borderlines of an entire community.

The complaints here,  which were never debated in a public forum,
have spread a sense of  uncertainty about the shifting terrain as
parents, teachers and students have  struggled to understand what
happened. Among teenagers who were once thrilled  to have worked on
the production, "Grease" became "the play they'd rather not  talk
about," said Teri Arms, their principal, who had also approved  the
play before it was presented.

"Grease" and "The Crucible" are  hardly unfamiliar; they are standard
fare on the high school drama circuit,  the second-most-frequently-
performed musical and drama on school stages,  according to the
Educational Theater Association, a nonprofit group. The  most
performed now are "Seussical" and "A Midsummer Night's  Dream."

But challenges to longstanding literary or artistic works are  not
unusual, said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the
American  Library Association's office of intellectual freedom.
Complaints generally  are growing; in 2004, the last year for which
figures are available, 547  books came under fire, an increase of
nearly 20 percent over 2003, when 458  books were challenged.

"That a literary work is a classic does not  protect it from being
challenged, or even removed from a particular  community," Ms.
Caldwell-Stone said. Fulton, about 90 miles west of St.  Louis, is
best known as the home of Westminster College, where  Winston
Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech in 1946. Presidents  since
Harry S. Truman have spoken in Fulton, lending the town a  more
cosmopolitan image.

Joseph Potter, an assistant professor of  performing arts at William
Woods University here, has staged dozens of shows  for the community,
including "Grease," and said he had never received a  complaint. But
politically and socially, Mr. Potter said, the town's core  is
conservative.

The three complaints about "Grease" reached Dr.  Enderle within the
same week.

Mark Miller, a 26-year-old graduate  student, said he was moved to
complain after getting an e-mail message about  the show from Terra
Guittar, a member of his church. Her description of the  pajama party
scene offended him, he wrote, adding that one character should  have
worn a more modest nightgown. Mr. Miller did not see the  play.

"It makes sense that you're not going to offend anyone by being  on
the conservative side, especially when you're dealing with  students,
who don't have the same power as a principal or a theater  director,"
he said.

A tape of the dress rehearsal showed that while  most of the girls in
the scene wore pajamas or a granny gown, Rizzo, the  play's bad girl,
wore just a pajama top. After the other girls fell asleep,  Rizzo
slipped her jeans on to sneak out for a date.


Ms. Guittar  was so outraged by the drinking and kissing onstage that
she walked out on  the performance. She said she was not trying to
inhibit artistic creativity.  "It was strictly a moral issue," she
said. "They're under 18. They're not in  Hollywood."

But other parents were happy with the play. Mimi Curtis,  whose son
John played the lead, said the principal and drama teacher went  out
of their way to respect parents' wishes, changing the script  in
response to her own objections to profanity.
Ms. Curtis, who ran a  concession stand during the play, saw all four
performances.

"I didn't  view it as raunchy," she said, adding that children who
watch television are  "hearing worse."

Dr. Enderle said he did not base his decision to cancel  "The
Crucible," which was first reported by The Fulton Sun, a daily,  just
on the three complaints and the video. He also asked 10 people  he
knew whether the play crossed a line. All but one, he recalled,  said
yes.

"To me, it's entirely a preventative maintenance issue," Dr.  Enderle
explained. "I can't do anything about what's already happened,  but
do I want to spend the spring saying, 'Yeah, we crossed the  line
again'?"

Nevertheless, the superintendent said he was "not 100  percent
comfortable" with having canceled "The Crucible."

The absence  of public debate meant that students heard of the
cancellation as a fait  accompli from their principal, Ms. Arms, and
Ms. DeVore, the drama teacher.  Others learned "The Crucible" was off
limits through an internal school  district newsletter. In it, Dr.
Enderle said he dropped the play after seeing  this summary on the
Web: "17th century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife  of
witchery in an adaptation of the Arthur Miller play."

Mr. Miller  wrote "The Crucible" in the 1950's, in response to the
witch hunt of his own  day, when Congress held hearings to purge
Hollywood of suspected Communists,  pressuring witnesses to expose
others to prove their innocence. The affair is  not acted out in the
play, which focuses on how hysteria and fear devoured  Salem, despite
the lack of evidence.

Dr. Enderle said Fulton High's  students had largely accepted his
decision and moved on. They are now  rehearsing "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" as their spring drama.

But in  interviews here, students, who had already begun practicing
for auditions of  "The Crucible," expressed frustration and
resignation, along with an  overriding sense that there was no use
fighting City Hall.

"It's  over," said Emily Swenson, 15, after auditioning for "A
Midsummer Night's  Dream." "We can't do anything about it. We just
have to obey."

Both  the students and Ms. DeVore seemed unsure of why "The
Crucible," which  students study in 11th grade, was unacceptable.

Jarryd Lapp, a junior who  was a light technician on "Grease," said
he was disappointed that "The  Crucible" was canceled. But he had a
theory. "The show itself is graphic," he  said. "People get hung;
there's death in it. It's not  appropriate."

Ms. DeVore believes it was canceled because it portrays the  Salem
witch trials, "a time in history that makes Christians look  bad."

"In a Bible Belt community," she added, "it makes people  nervous."

The teacher and her students are now ruling out future  productions
they once considered for their entertainment value alone,
like  "Little Shop of Horrors," a musical that features a
cannibalistic plant,  which they had discussed doing next fall.

Torii Davis, a junior, said  that in her psychology class earlier
that day, most students predicted that  "Little Shop of Horrors"
would never pass the test.

"Audrey works in a  flower shop," Ms. Davis said. "She has a
boyfriend who beats her. That could  be controversial."

Ms. DeVore went down a list of the most commonly  performed musicals
and dramas on high school stages, and ticked off the  potentially
offensive aspects. " 'Bye Bye Birdie' has smoking  and
drinking. 'Oklahoma,' there's a scene where she's almost
raped. 'Diary  of Anne Frank,' would you take a 6-year-old?" the
drama teacher  asked.

"How am I supposed to know what's appropriate when I don't have  any
written guidelines, and it seems that what was appropriate  yesterday
isn't appropriate today?" Ms. DeVore asked. The teacher said she  had
been warned that because of the controversy, the school board  might
not renew her contract for next year.

For the moment, Dr.  Enderle acknowledged, the controversy has shrunk
the boundaries of what is  acceptable for the community. He added
that "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was  "not a totally vanilla play."

But asked if the high school might put on  another Shakespeare
classic about young people in love, "Romeo and Juliet,"  he hesitated.

"Given the historical context of the play," the  superintendent
said, "it would be difficult to say that's something we would  not
perform."

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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat Feb 11 15:16:25 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Intelligence, Policy,
	and the War in Iraq     By Paul R. Pillar   Foreign Affairs
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   A Very Insightful Article About What Should Be Done
   Michael

    Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq
    By Paul R. Pillar
    Foreign Affairs

    March/April 2006 Issue

    A Dysfunctional Relationship

    The most serious problem with US intelligence today is that its
relationship with the policymaking process is broken and badly needs repair.
In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence
analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national
security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify
decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between
policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence
community's own work was politicized. As the national intelligence officer
responsible for the Middle East from 2000 to 2005, I witnessed all of these
disturbing developments.

    Public discussion of prewar intelligence on Iraq has focused on the
errors made in assessing Saddam Hussein's unconventional weapons programs. A
commission chaired by Judge Laurence Silberman and former Senator Charles
Robb usefully documented the intelligence community's mistakes in a solid
and comprehensive report released in March 2005. Corrections were indeed in
order, and the intelligence community has begun to make them.

    At the same time, an acrimonious and highly partisan debate broke out
over whether the Bush administration manipulated and misused intelligence in
making its case for war. The administration defended itself by pointing out
that it was not alone in its view that Saddam had weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) and active weapons programs, however mistaken that view
may have been.

    In this regard, the Bush administration was quite right: its perception
of Saddam's weapons capacities was shared by the Clinton administration,
congressional Democrats, and most other Western governments and intelligence
services. But in making this defense, the White House also inadvertently
pointed out the real problem: intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs did not
drive its decision to go to war. A view broadly held in the United States
and even more so overseas was that deterrence of Iraq was working, that
Saddam was being kept "in his box," and that the best way to deal with the
weapons problem was through an aggressive inspections program to supplement
the sanctions already in place. That the administration arrived at so
different a policy solution indicates that its decision to topple Saddam was
driven by other factors - namely, the desire to shake up the sclerotic power
structures of the Middle East and hasten the spread of more liberal politics
and economics in the region.

    If the entire body of official intelligence analysis on Iraq had a
policy implication, it was to avoid war - or, if war was going to be
launched, to prepare for a messy aftermath. What is most remarkable about
prewar US intelligence on Iraq is not that it got things wrong and thereby
misled policymakers; it is that it played so small a role in one of the most
important US policy decisions in recent decades.

    A Model Upended

    The proper relationship between intelligence gathering and policymaking
sharply separates the two functions. The intelligence community collects
information, evaluates its credibility, and combines it with other
information to help make sense of situations abroad that could affect US
interests. Intelligence officers decide which topics should get their
limited collection and analytic resources according to both their own
judgments and the concerns of policymakers. Policymakers thus influence
which topics intelligence agencies address but not the conclusions that they
reach. The intelligence community, meanwhile, limits its judgments to what
is happening or what might happen overseas, avoiding policy judgments about
what the United States should do in response.

    In practice, this distinction is often blurred, especially because
analytic projections may have policy implications even if they are not
explicitly stated. But the distinction is still important. National security
abounds with problems that are clearer than the solutions to them; the case
of Iraq is hardly a unique example of how similar perceptions of a threat
can lead people to recommend very different policy responses. Accordingly,
it is critical that the intelligence community not advocate policy,
especially not openly. If it does, it loses the most important basis for its
credibility and its claims to objectivity. When intelligence analysts
critique one another's work, they use the phrase "policy prescriptive" as a
pejorative, and rightly so.

    The Bush administration's use of intelligence on Iraq did not just blur
this distinction; it turned the entire model upside down. The administration
used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision
already made. It went to war without requesting - and evidently without
being influenced by - any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any
aspect of Iraq. (The military made extensive use of intelligence in its war
planning, although much of it was of a more tactical nature.) Congress, not
the administration, asked for the now-infamous October 2002 National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's unconventional weapons programs,
although few members of Congress actually read it. (According to several
congressional aides responsible for safeguarding the classified material, no
more than six senators and only a handful of House members got beyond the
five-page executive summary.) As the national intelligence officer for the
Middle East, I was in charge of coordinating all of the intelligence
community's assessments regarding Iraq; the first request I received from
any administration policymaker for any such assessment was not until a year
into the war.

    Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even
with its flaws, it was not what led to the war. On the issue that mattered
most, the intelligence community judged that Iraq probably was several years
away from developing a nuclear weapon. The October 2002 NIE also judged that
Saddam was unlikely to use WMD against the United States unless his regime
was placed in mortal danger.

    Before the war, on its own initiative, the intelligence community
considered the principal challenges that any postinvasion authority in Iraq
would be likely to face. It presented a picture of a political culture that
would not provide fertile ground for democracy and foretold a long,
difficult, and turbulent transition. It projected that a Marshall Plan-type
effort would be required to restore the Iraqi economy, despite Iraq's
abundant oil resources. It forecast that in a deeply divided Iraqi society,
with Sunnis resentful over the loss of their dominant position and Shiites
seeking power commensurate with their majority status, there was a
significant chance that the groups would engage in violent conflict unless
an occupying power prevented it. And it anticipated that a foreign occupying
force would itself be the target of resentment and attacks - including by
guerrilla warfare - unless it established security and put Iraq on the road
to prosperity in the first few weeks or months after the fall of Saddam.

    In addition, the intelligence community offered its assessment of the
likely regional repercussions of ousting Saddam. It argued that any value
Iraq might have as a democratic exemplar would be minimal and would depend
on the stability of a new Iraqi government and the extent to which democracy
in Iraq was seen as developing from within rather than being imposed by an
outside power. More likely, war and occupation would boost political Islam
and increase sympathy for terrorists' objectives - and Iraq would become a
magnet for extremists from elsewhere in the Middle East.

    Standard Deviations

    The Bush administration deviated from the professional standard not only
in using policy to drive intelligence, but also in aggressively using
intelligence to win public support for its decision to go to war. This meant
selectively adducing data - "cherry-picking" - rather than using the
intelligence community's own analytic judgments. In fact, key portions of
the administration's case explicitly rejected those judgments. In an August
2002 speech, for example, Vice President Dick Cheney observed that
"intelligence is an uncertain business" and noted how intelligence analysts
had underestimated how close Iraq had been to developing a nuclear weapon
before the 1991 Persian Gulf War. His conclusion - at odds with that of the
intelligence community - was that "many of us are convinced that Saddam will
acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon."

    In the upside-down relationship between intelligence and policy that
prevailed in the case of Iraq, the administration selected pieces of raw
intelligence to use in its public case for war, leaving the intelligence
community to register varying degrees of private protest when such use
started to go beyond what analysts deemed credible or reasonable. The
best-known example was the assertion by President George W. Bush in his 2003
State of the Union address that Iraq was purchasing uranium ore in Africa.
US intelligence analysts had questioned the credibility of the report making
this claim, had kept it out of their own unclassified products, and had
advised the White House not to use it publicly. But the administration put
the claim into the speech anyway, referring to it as information from
British sources in order to make the point without explicitly vouching for
the intelligence.

    The reexamination of prewar public statements is a necessary part of
understanding the process that led to the Iraq war. But a narrow focus on
rhetorical details tends to overlook more fundamental problems in the
intelligence-policy relationship. Any time policymakers, rather than
intelligence agencies, take the lead in selecting which bits of raw
intelligence to present, there is - regardless of the issue - a bias. The
resulting public statements ostensibly reflect intelligence, but they do not
reflect intelligence analysis, which is an essential part of determining
what the pieces of raw reporting mean. The policymaker acts with an eye not
to what is indicative of a larger pattern or underlying truth, but to what
supports his case.

    Another problem is that on Iraq, the intelligence community was pulled
over the line into policy advocacy - not so much by what it said as by its
conspicuous role in the administration's public case for war. This was
especially true when the intelligence community was made highly visible
(with the director of central intelligence literally in the camera frame) in
an intelligence-laden presentation by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the
UN Security Council a month before the war began. It was also true in the
fall of 2002, when, at the administration's behest, the intelligence
community published a white paper on Iraq's WMD programs - but without
including any of the community's judgments about the likelihood of those
weapons' being used.

    But the greatest discrepancy between the administration's public
statements and the intelligence community's judgments concerned not WMD
(there was indeed a broad consensus that such programs existed), but the
relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda. The enormous attention devoted to
this subject did not reflect any judgment by intelligence officials that
there was or was likely to be anything like the "alliance" the
administration said existed. The reason the connection got so much attention
was that the administration wanted to hitch the Iraq expedition to the "war
on terror" and the threat the American public feared most, thereby
capitalizing on the country's militant post-9/11 mood.

    The issue of possible ties between Saddam and al Qaeda was especially
prone to the selective use of raw intelligence to make a public case for
war. In the shadowy world of international terrorism, almost anyone can be
"linked" to almost anyone else if enough effort is made to find evidence of
casual contacts, the mentioning of names in the same breath, or indications
of common travels or experiences. Even the most minimal and circumstantial
data can be adduced as evidence of a "relationship," ignoring the important
question of whether a given regime actually supports a given terrorist group
and the fact that relationships can be competitive or distrustful rather
than cooperative.

    The intelligence community never offered any analysis that supported the
notion of an alliance between Saddam and al Qaeda. Yet it was drawn into a
public effort to support that notion. To be fair, Secretary Powell's
presentation at the UN never explicitly asserted that there was a
cooperative relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda. But the presentation
was clearly meant to create the impression that one existed. To the extent
that the intelligence community was a party to such efforts, it crossed the
line into policy advocacy - and did so in a way that fostered public
misconceptions contrary to the intelligence community's own judgments.

    Varities of Politicization

    In its report on prewar intelligence concerning Iraqi WMD, the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence said it found no evidence that analysts had
altered or shaped their judgments in response to political pressure. The
Silberman-Robb commission reached the same conclusion, although it conceded
that analysts worked in an "environment" affected by "intense" policymaker
interest. But the method of investigation used by the panels - essentially,
asking analysts whether their arms had been twisted - would have caught only
the crudest attempts at politicization. Such attempts are rare and, when
they do occur (as with former Undersecretary of State John Bolton's attempts
to get the intelligence community to sign on to his judgments about Cuba and
Syria), are almost always unsuccessful. Moreover, it is unlikely that
analysts would ever acknowledge that their own judgments have been
politicized, since that would be far more damning than admitting more
mundane types of analytic error.

    The actual politicization of intelligence occurs subtly and can take
many forms. Context is all-important. Well before March 2003, intelligence
analysts and their managers knew that the United States was heading for war
with Iraq. It was clear that the Bush administration would frown on or
ignore analysis that called into question a decision to go to war and
welcome analysis that supported such a decision. Intelligence analysts - for
whom attention, especially favorable attention, from policymakers is a
measure of success - felt a strong wind consistently blowing in one
direction. The desire to bend with such a wind is natural and strong, even
if unconscious.

    On the issue of Iraqi WMD, dozens of analysts throughout the
intelligence community were making many judgments on many different issues
based on fragmentary and ambiguous evidence. The differences between sound
intelligence analysis (bearing in mind the gaps in information) and the
flawed analysis that actually was produced had to do mainly with matters of
caveat, nuance, and word choice. The opportunities for bias were numerous.
It may not be possible to point to one key instance of such bending or to
measure the cumulative effect of such pressure. But the effect was probably
significant.

    A clearer form of politicization is the inconsistent review of analysis:
reports that conform to policy preferences have an easier time making it
through the gauntlet of coordination and approval than ones that do not.
(Every piece of intelligence analysis reflects not only the judgments of the
analysts most directly involved in writing it, but also the concurrence of
those who cover related topics and the review, editing, and remanding of it
by several levels of supervisors, from branch chiefs to senior executives.)
The Silberman-Robb commission noted such inconsistencies in the Iraq case
but chalked it up to bad management. The commission failed to address
exactly why managers were inconsistent: they wanted to avoid the
unpleasantness of laying unwelcome analysis on a policymaker's desk.

    Another form of politicization with a similar cause is the sugarcoating
of what otherwise would be an unpalatable message. Even the mostly prescient
analysis about the problems likely to be encountered in postwar Iraq
included some observations that served as sugar, added in the hope that
policymakers would not throw the report directly into the burn bag, but
damaging the clarity of the analysis in the process.

    But the principal way that the intelligence community's work on Iraq was
politicized concerned the specific questions to which the community devoted
its energies. As any competent pollster can attest, how a question is framed
helps determine the answer. In the case of Iraq, there was also the matter
of sheer quantity of output - not just what the intelligence community said,
but how many times it said it. On any given subject, the intelligence
community faces what is in effect a field of rocks, and it lacks the
resources to turn over every one to see what threats to national security
may lurk underneath. In an unpoliticized environment, intelligence officers
decide which rocks to turn over based on past patterns and their own
judgments. But when policymakers repeatedly urge the intelligence community
to turn over only certain rocks, the process becomes biased. The community
responds by concentrating its resources on those rocks, eventually producing
a body of reporting and analysis that, thanks to quantity and emphasis,
leaves the impression that what lies under those same rocks is a bigger part
of the problem than it really is.

    That is what happened when the Bush administration repeatedly called on
the intelligence community to uncover more material that would contribute to
the case for war. The Bush team approached the community again and again and
pushed it to look harder at the supposed Saddam-al Qaeda relationship -
calling on analysts not only to turn over additional Iraqi rocks, but also
to turn over ones already examined and to scratch the dirt to see if there
might be something there after all. The result was an intelligence output
that - because the question being investigated was never put in context -
obscured rather than enhanced understanding of al Qaeda's actual sources of
strength and support.

    This process represented a radical departure from the textbook model of
the relationship between intelligence and policy, in which an intelligence
service responds to policymaker interest in certain subjects (such as
"security threats from Iraq" or "al Qaeda's supporters") and explores them
in whatever direction the evidence leads. The process did not involve
intelligence work designed to find dangers not yet discovered or to inform
decisions not yet made. Instead, it involved research to find evidence in
support of a specific line of argument - that Saddam was cooperating with al
Qaeda - which in turn was being used to justify a specific policy decision.

    One possible consequence of such politicization is policymaker
self-deception. A policymaker can easily forget that he is hearing so much
about a particular angle in briefings because he and his fellow policymakers
have urged the intelligence community to focus on it. A more certain
consequence is the skewed application of the intelligence community's
resources. Feeding the administration's voracious appetite for material on
the Saddam-al Qaeda link consumed an enormous amount of time and attention
at multiple levels, from rank-and-file counterterrorism analysts to the most
senior intelligence officials. It is fair to ask how much other
counterterrorism work was left undone as a result.

    The issue became even more time-consuming as the conflict between
intelligence officials and policymakers escalated into a battle, with the
intelligence community struggling to maintain its objectivity even as
policymakers pressed the Saddam-al Qaeda connection. The administration's
rejection of the intelligence community's judgments became especially clear
with the formation of a special Pentagon unit, the Policy Counterterrorism
Evaluation Group. The unit, which reported to Undersecretary of Defense
Douglas Feith, was dedicated to finding every possible link between Saddam
and al Qaeda, and its briefings accused the intelligence community of faulty
analysis for failing to see the supposed alliance.

    For the most part, the intelligence community's own substantive
judgments do not appear to have been compromised. (A possible important
exception was the construing of an ambiguous, and ultimately recanted,
statement from a detainee as indicating that Saddam's Iraq provided
jihadists with chemical or biological training.) But although the charge of
faulty analysis was never directly conveyed to the intelligence community
itself, enough of the charges leaked out to create a public perception of
rancor between the administration and the intelligence community, which in
turn encouraged some administration supporters to charge intelligence
officers (including me) with trying to sabotage the president's policies.
This poisonous atmosphere reinforced the disinclination within the
intelligence community to challenge the consensus view about Iraqi WMD
programs; any such challenge would have served merely to reaffirm the
presumptions of the accusers.

    Partial Repairs

    Although the Iraq war has provided a particularly stark illustration of
the problems in the intelligence-policy relationship, such problems are not
confined to this one issue or this specific administration. Four decades
ago, the misuse of intelligence about an ambiguous encounter in the Gulf of
Tonkin figured prominently in the Johnson administration's justification for
escalating the military effort in Vietnam. Over a century ago, the possible
misinterpretation of an explosion on a US warship in Havana harbor helped
set off the chain of events that led to a war of choice against Spain. The
Iraq case needs further examination and reflection on its own. But public
discussion of how to foster a better relationship between intelligence
officials and policymakers and how to ensure better use of intelligence on
future issues is also necessary.

    Intelligence affects the nation's interests through its effect on
policy. No matter how much the process of intelligence gathering itself is
fixed, the changes will do no good if the role of intelligence in the
policymaking process is not also addressed. Unfortunately, there is no
single clear fix to the sort of problem that arose in the case of Iraq. The
current ill will may not be reparable, and the perception of the
intelligence community on the part of some policymakers - that Langley is
enemy territory - is unlikely to change. But a few steps, based on the
recognition that the intelligence-policy relationship is indeed broken,
could reduce the likelihood that such a breakdown will recur.

    On this point, the United States should emulate the United Kingdom,
where discussion of this issue has been more forthright, by declaring once
and for all that its intelligence services should not be part of public
advocacy of policies still under debate. In the United Kingdom, Prime
Minister Tony Blair accepted a commission of inquiry's conclusions that
intelligence and policy had been improperly commingled in such exercises as
the publication of the "dodgy dossier," the British counterpart to the
United States' Iraqi WMD white paper, and that in the future there should be
a clear delineation between intelligence and policy. An American declaration
should take the form of a congressional resolution and be seconded by a
statement from the White House. Although it would not have legal force, such
a statement would discourage future administrations from attempting to pull
the intelligence community into policy advocacy. It would also give some
leverage to intelligence officers in resisting any such future attempts.

    A more effective way of identifying and exposing improprieties in the
relationship is also needed. The CIA has a "politicization ombudsman," but
his informally defined functions mostly involve serving as a sympathetic ear
for analysts disturbed by evidence of politicization and then summarizing
what he hears for senior agency officials. The intelligence oversight
committees in Congress have an important role, but the heightened
partisanship that has bedeviled so much other work on Capitol Hill has had
an especially inhibiting effect in this area. A promised effort by the
Senate Intelligence Committee to examine the Bush administration's use of
intelligence on Iraq got stuck in the partisan mud. The House committee has
not even attempted to address the subject.

    The legislative branch is the appropriate place for monitoring the
intelligence-policy relationship. But the oversight should be conducted by a
nonpartisan office modeled on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and
the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Such an office would have a staff,
smaller than that of the GAO or the CBO, of officers experienced in
intelligence and with the necessary clearances and access to examine
questions about both the politicization of classified intelligence work and
the public use of intelligence. As with the GAO, this office could conduct
inquiries at the request of members of Congress. It would make its results
public as much as possible, consistent with security requirements, and it
would avoid duplicating the many other functions of intelligence oversight,
which would remain the responsibility of the House and Senate intelligence
committees.

    Beyond these steps, there is the more difficult issue of what place the
intelligence community should occupy within the executive branch. The
reorganization that created the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) is barely a year old, and yet another reorganization at
this time would compound the disruption. But the flaws in the narrowly
conceived and hastily considered reorganization legislation of December 2004
- such as ambiguities in the DNI's authority - will make it necessary to
reopen the issues it addressed. Any new legislation should also tackle
something the 2004 legislation did not: the problem of having the leaders of
the intelligence community, which is supposed to produce objective and
unvarnished analysis, serve at the pleasure of the president.

    The organizational issue is also difficult because of a dilemma that
intelligence officers have long discussed and debated among themselves: that
although distance from policymakers may be needed for objectivity, closeness
is needed for influence. For most of the past quarter century, intelligence
officials have striven for greater closeness, in a perpetual quest for
policymakers' ears. The lesson of the Iraq episode, however, is that the
supposed dilemma has been incorrectly conceived. Closeness in this case did
not buy influence, even on momentous issues of war and peace; it bought only
the disadvantages of politicization.

    The intelligence community should be repositioned to reflect the fact
that influence and relevance flow not just from face time in the Oval
Office, but also from credibility with Congress and, most of all, with the
American public. The community needs to remain in the executive branch but
be given greater independence and a greater ability to communicate with
those other constituencies (fettered only by security considerations, rather
than by policy agendas). An appropriate model is the Federal Reserve, which
is structured as a quasi-autonomous body overseen by a board of governors
with long fixed terms.

    These measures would reduce both the politicization of the intelligence
community's own work and the public misuse of intelligence by policymakers.
It would not directly affect how much attention policymakers give to
intelligence, which they would continue to be entitled to ignore. But the
greater likelihood of being called to public account for discrepancies
between a case for a certain policy and an intelligence judgment would have
the indirect effect of forcing policymakers to pay more attention to those
judgments in the first place.

    These changes alone will not fix the intelligence-policy relationship.
But if Congress and the American people are serious about "fixing
intelligence," they should not just do what is easy and politically
convenient. At stake are the soundness of US foreign-policy making and the
right of Americans to know the basis for decisions taken in the name of
their security.

    Paul R. Pillar is on the faculty of the Security Studies Program at
Georgetown University. Concluding a long career in the Central Intelligence
Agency, he served as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and
South Asia from 2000 to 2005.

 

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Feb 12 10:56:40 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun Feb 12 11:11:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Intelligence... Dean's reply
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Dean,
Just keep pushing. Every bit helps. Send your feelings around. I do it all
the time and if I can bring some light to just one person I am hitting on
100%. Make it two and we are at 200%.
Peace and Love,
Michael
-- Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only
thing that ever has.   Margaret Mead





> Hey Michael;
>   Thanks for the article by Mr. Pillar, who I fully expect to get tarred,
> feathered and smeared by the bush regime. I had just read the N. Y. Times
> article on him and his expose. This article was much deeper, and it only more
> thouroughly reconfirmed my suspicions that go back to pre-war conniving by
> dick c., wolfie, and the rest of the gang that can't shoot straight. I feel
> slightly vindicated but certainly not proud or smug. I'm still pissed. This
> article proposes some possible solutions, but I honestly think that none of us
> should expect anything even remotely close to honesty from the administration
> or congress. I wouldn't bet a wooden nickel that any substantial changes will
> occur. With all of the election fixing experience that the republicans have
> accumulated and with the open-ended style of karl rove, (anything goes), (ie.
> I would not be surprised if it's shown that they made up the false info of
> yellow cake, planted it, waited to see that the British noted it, then used
> that sorce for validation of b. s.), typical modus rovus. They simply think
> that they'll be the ones writing the history books, and they'll be sitting
> fat. Beyond the law, they own it all the way up to and through the Supreme
> Court. 
>    I'm continually amazed that there is no concerted effort to try to rectify
> the situation. I guess people are so busy, working long hours, trying to raise
> families, that they just don't want to hear about it. When I bring it up, I
> get the replies such as "It's always been this way", "That's the way it is",
> "Why don't you do something about it, Dean", etc. I feel so sorry for the next
> generation. Unless we can really make some absolutely monumental changes,
> there is little positive in our future. I look back over the years to where
> the conservatives said that we couldn't afford a couple of billion to fix the
> levee system in the Mississippi, now it's like $100 billion. What a savings.
> Same thing with energy. When Jimmy Carter proposed it, the idea of spending
> 100 billion was preposterous. Now to make the change over, they're quoting
> more than a trillion. Well, that's what it's going to take, we all need to
> make that sacrifice. The damn energy consortium needs to pay for it. They have
> the money. They've been milking America for the past 50 years, holding the
> country and the science back, only until that they can maintain full control
> of the infrastructure. I just watched a History Channel show on George
> Washinton Carver. He figured it all out  before WW II, with soy beans. Now we
> have the better science of 85% alcohol, which needs 60% energy from petrol to
> make itself. Not to mention the pesticides, fertilizers etc. It's a scam. We
> should have sunk a half a trillion into solar, then we'd be energy
> independent, oil would be cheeper, there would be less stress in the middle
> east, and ..... no need to go on, you know it already.
>  the neo-cons are nothing but criminal pimps and pushers. Whether it's heroin
> from Viet Nam, irangate, illegal immigration, they're all making a fortune on
> it. They've killed the golden goose, now their bleeding it dry. And the rest
> of the world watches in wonder, and bush gets a bust to honor his sacrifice in
> the Texas National Guard, what a dishonor to the rest of the members of the
> National Guard. What a crock, it makes him look like a Caesar.
> I gotta barf.
>   Sorry for the crude imagery.
>       Honest!
>            Dean H.
> 

From michael at intrafi.com  Sun Feb 12 11:17:20 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Sun Feb 12 11:32:03 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: The Islam the Riots Drowned Out
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This page was sent to you by: michael@intrafi.com.

Great, clear description of one our current concerns. Michael


OPINION | February 12, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor: The Islam the Riots Drowned Out
By EMRAN QURESHI
How the Danish cartoons were used to silence dissent.
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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Mon Feb 13 12:08:08 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: The Trust Gap
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OPINION | February 12, 2006
Editorial: The Trust Gap

Spin-as-usual from the Bush administration is one thing. Striking at the civil liberties, due process and balance of powers that are the heart of American democracy is another.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/opinion/12sun1.html?ex=1140498000&en=9191158cd0264dc9&ei=5070&emc=eta1




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OPINION | February 12, 2006
Editorial: The Trust Gap

Spin-as-usual from the Bush administration is one thing. Striking at the civil liberties, due process and balance of powers that are the heart of American democracy is another.
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Date: Mon Feb 13 12:09:18 2006
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The Bush administration is a crowd that's comfortable with the destructive arts — squandering money, wasting lives and undermining the potential of the U.S.
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Mon Feb 13 12:34:42 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Mon Feb 13 12:49:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Globalization (And Show Business)
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 13 Feb 2006
	12:00:21 -0800
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Ravenhill is wrong when he so easly dismisses
some of the efforts of Webber and Mackintosh,--particlarly, whether you
like it or not, the devotion Webber poured into PHANTOM, but there are
some interesing points, here.  

(His perspective is also askliter, in that the first great multinational
hts FIDDLER, HAIR..., were clearly the happy prouct of love, talent, and
craftsmanship....)

JB
________

"My first play turned me into a global brand. Does that mean I now have
to write bland, boring money-spinners?" 
Mark Ravenhill 
Monday February 6, 2006
The Guardian 

A few years ago, researching my play Some Explicit Polaroids, I went
with a couple of actors to interview Charles Saatchi. We wanted to ask
the art collector, advertising guru and architect of successive Thatcher
election campaigns about globalisation. His company had, he revealed,
identified globalisation as the future several years before and had made
many key decisions in the light of this. "But," asked one of the actors,
"is globalisation good or bad?" A smile twitched on his face. Actors, he
seemed to be thinking, bringing these strange words into my office.
"Good or bad?" he said. "You can't say globalisation is good or bad.
It's like the wind or the rain - it just is."
 
I grinned back. "Typical free market delusion," I thought, "to see the
economy as some independent entity free of all human decisions." 
I thanked Mr Saatchi for his time - and based a charismatic but rather
evil character on him.

I tend to think of globalisation as sneakers made in sweatshops in
Malaysia, McDonalds's golden arches in Turkestan or call centres in
Delhi. I've come to realise, though, that globalisation is an increasing
force in my business, the business we call show.

The first great global theatre machine was the Cameron Mackintosh
musical, a production line that pumped out international hits throughout
the 1980s, from Cats to Miss Saigon. Created in this country, each
British production was always little more than product development and
market research before the brand was launched on Broadway and then
franchised out across the world. It was a hugely successful operation,
with many of the shows earning more money than the biggest-grossing
Hollywood movies.

Visiting European cities, I've seen the giant warehouse structures -
Ikea theatres - where coachloads of eager Danes or Swiss are deposited
to witness the wash of emotion and spectacle that is Les Mis?rables or
Phantom of the Opera. There seems little need for new product in this
market: ever since Martin Guerre refused to be a hit, the days of the
blockbuster musical have been numbered. It was announced this week that
The Woman in White will be closing in the West End and - after a very
short run - on Broadway.

But there seems little sign of such weariness in other parts of the
theatre ecology. In his latest piece, The Andersen Project, now playing
at the Barbican in London, the Canadian theatre-maker Robert Lepage
acknowledges wryly the world of international festival funding that
makes his work possible. Lepage is very much part of the globalisation
of the theatre, creating packages that will bring financial support from
governments, corporations and festivals across the world. And it shows
in his work. Whereas the first piece that brought him international
recognition, The Dragons' Trilogy, was a thrilling exploration of the
specific, complex cultural experiences of the city in which it was made,
his subsequent work has relied on some hazy thinking, generalised
cultural references and a great deal of spectacle. Not a million miles
away from Cats, in fact, even if the audience is posher.

Hearing the American theatre-maker Robert Wilson give a public lecture,
I was aware that his work had followed a very similar trajectory to
Lepage's. Wilson talked at length, and with great love and attention,
about his early work - work that was seen only by small audiences in his
own country. But when it came to describing his international career,
the lecture became a list of international co-productions, with slides
speeding past at such a dizzying rate it was almost impossible to keep
up. The unspoken story of Wilson's lecture was that he'd spent the first
part of his career developing a theatre language and then the rest of
his time selling that language as an international brand.

The market leader in international theatre is probably still Peter
Brook. Having established his brand dominance in the 1980s with The
Mahabharata, Brook now has the dulling facility to reduce any play or
narrative to the same bland hippy event: a few scatter cushions, some
oriental rugs, a lot of generalised acting. And although I find his work
as boring as a bad episode of Hollyoaks, I suppose it must be that
generalised nature that makes it such a saleable commodity for those
booking international festivals.

My first play, Shopping and F***ing, was produced all over the world.
This was hugely exciting and I took up many invitations to see
productions - some good, a few terrible - in different countries. I soon
got bored with seeing the play, but it was fascinating to meet
directors, writers and actors from other cultures and to get a glimpse
into their world. Sitting down to write another play after these
experiences, however, was overwhelming. 

Would this line mean something to someone in Helsinki? Would they relate
to this character in Johannesburg? Was this funny in Sidney?
I realised that I'd become a global brand - and I didn't like it. Good
art has to be concrete. It is better to risk being local than to be
generalised. 
I wrote Some Explicit Polaroids simply about England. It's had as many
international productions as Shopping and F***ing and people in eastern
Europe and South America tell me it's about their country. Which is
hugely gratifying - and pays the bills.

This year I'm playing the international festival circuit, performing my
monologue Product. The challenge is going to be the same: enjoy the
cultural exchange but, when I sit down to write, block out the
international chatter.

? Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006
          


From fotoblue at flash.net  Mon Feb 13 14:50:26 2006
From: fotoblue at flash.net (fotoblue@flash.net)
Date: Mon Feb 13 15:05:03 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] BBC E-mail: Hollywood 'resists gay US actors'
Message-ID: <380-220062113225026570@M2W032.mail2web.com>

politically not quite correct, but  I thought you'd get a chuckle out of it

somebody sent me this with the heading "early warning"...

I'm back from our Mega Road Trip through Mexico.

shall be catching up on all hairy news in the next few days.

P&L
Dagmar

Original Message:
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:47:13 +0000
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] BBC E-mail: Hollywood 'resists gay US actors'


Michael saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
should see it.



** Hollywood 'resists gay US actors' **
Sir Ian McKellen says openly gay US actors are prevented from having
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From ean at sbcglobal.net  Mon Feb 13 21:37:57 2006
From: ean at sbcglobal.net (ean@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue Feb 14 10:16:05 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Misunderstanding Muslims
Message-ID: <E1F94Qt-0004WZ-7l@elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Misunderstanding Muslims

By James Carroll | February 13, 2006 | The Boston Globe

WHEN THE KORAN was said to have been denigrated by American guards at 
Guantanamo last year, Muslims reacted with rage, but most observers in 
the West misunderstood why.

It was easy for Christians and Jews -- the other ''people of the Book" 
-- to think that such an insult to the Koran was like an insult to the 
Bible. That would be sacrilege enough, but it was worse than that.

Drawing analogies between religions can mislead, but the Koran stands in 
Islamic belief more as Jesus does in Christian faith than as the Bible. 
As this Christian understands it, the Koran embodies the incarnational 
principle, with the chanting of the holy words that came from God to 
Mohammed as the way God's presence is experienced again.

Non-Muslims tend to think that the Prophet is to Islam something like 
what Jesus is to Christianity (which is why non-Muslims have mistakenly 
called the religion ''Mohammedanism"), but it is the Koran that holds 
such a central place. Hence, Islamic visual celebration is calligraphy, 
not images. Therefore when the Koran is disrespected, the insult Muslims 
feel is nothing less than insult to God.

Insult, of course, is the issue that has been put so explosively before 
the world recently. The Danish cartoons were a flame applied to a primed 
fuse, and the extraordinary reactions to the images from across the 
whole House of Islam point beyond the immediate provocation to a far 
broader sense of insult that Muslims have been made to feel.

One need not excuse the indiscriminate violence of mobs in the streets, 
nor dismiss the good question of why such rage is not directed against 
the blasphemy of suicide-murders carried out in the name of Allah to 
take a lesson from what has happened. The Islamic world seems 
astoundingly united in sending a stern message to ''the West," and 
instead of focusing again on ''what went wrong" with Islam Europeans and 
Americans would do well to take that message in.

Thinking of deep history, for example, we might recall that the very 
structures of politics, culture, and thought that define western 
civilization were expressly erected in opposition to Islam more than 
1,000 years ago.

What we call ''the West" was born in the clash of civilizations that 
climaxed in the Crusades, with Muslims assigned the role of the external 
''negative other" against which Christendom defined itself positively 
(The internal ''negative other" were the Jews). Among Europeans, and 
then Americans, that intellectual polarity was sublimated over the 
centuries, but its insult remained current among Muslims, and was 
powerfully resuscitated by the assault of colonialism.

The economics of oil, including the creation of an oppressive local 
class of Western-sponsored oligarchs, locked the grievous insult in 
place. As if to be sure it was more sharply felt than ever, Europe 
imported ''guest workers" from the Islamic world, openly consigning them 
to an underclass that is as religiously defined as it is permanent.

And then the United States launched its wars. One of the major 
disconnects in the present conflict is the way in which European and 
American analysis obsesses with the apparently anarchic outbursts of 
violence in the ''Arab street" without taking in how brutally violent 
the post-9/11 ''coalition" assault has been, not only physically but 
psychologically.

Mobs throw stones through the windows of European consulate offices, and 
the legion of CNN watchers recoils with horror. Meanwhile, unmanned 
drones fly across stretches of desert to drop loads of fire on the heads 
of subsistence farmers in their villages; children die, but CNN is not 
there.

Billions of dollars are being poured each month into the project of 
imposing an American solution on an Arab problem, and increasingly the 
solution looks, from the other side, like annihilation. Muslims, that 
is, understand the new reality far better than non-Muslims do -- the 
state of open cultural warfare that ''the West" imagines is a narrowly 
targeted war against ''terrorism." Muslims, as Muslims, experience 
themselves as on the receiving end of a savage -- but, alas, not 
unprecedented -- assault.

Are they wrong? In the argument over ''Enlightenment" values, sparked by 
the cartoons, some champions of free expression have fallen into the 
deadly old mistake that led, in the 20th century, to a grotesque 
betrayal of those very values -- the over-under ranking of human beings, 
with the lives of some being counted as cheap.

Why are we killing them? As with multiple problems today, this one comes back to 
the misbegotten American war. It threatens to ignite the 
century, and must be stopped.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/02/13/misu
nderstanding_muslims/


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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Feb 14 10:58:31 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] LOTS OF LOVE
Message-ID: <C01764E1.29071%michael@michaelbutler.com>

GALS AND GUYS
BE MY VALENTINE
LOVE MICHAEL
PS: Only eat 70% Cocoa

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Feb 14 10:58:46 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Feb 14 11:13:43 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: David
In-Reply-To: <54.5372daf2.3122d2ff@aol.com>
Message-ID: <C0176866.2907A%michael@michaelbutler.com>


------ Forwarded Message
From: IHHS@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:30:23 EST
To: IHHS@aol.com
Subject: David

Little David was in his fifth grade class when  the teacher asked the
children what their fathers did for a living. All the  typical answers came
up - 
fireman, policeman, salesman, etc.  David was  being uncharacteristically
quiet, 
and so the teacher asked him about his  father.

"My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes  off all his
clothes 
in front of other men. Sometimes, if the offer's really  good, he'll go out
to the alley with some guy and have sex with him  for  money."

The teacher, shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the  other children to
work on some coloring, and then took Little David aside. "Is  that really
true 
about your father?" she asked.

"No," said David, "he  works for the Bush administration, but I was too
embarrassed to say that in  front of the other kids."




------ End of Forwarded Message

From richalmack at earthlink.net  Tue Feb 14 10:59:46 2006
From: richalmack at earthlink.net (Rich Almack)
Date: Tue Feb 14 11:14:29 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Misunderstanding Muslims
In-Reply-To: <E1F94Qt-0004WZ-7l@elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <000001c63198$d4070e20$0200a8c0@Sally>

No longer can I not say, with as much respect to what seems like 99% of you
posters, who don't share my conservative bent..."give me an effing break"

  _____  

From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of ean@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:38 PM
To: ean@sbcglobal.net
Subject: [Mb-hair] Misunderstanding Muslims


Misunderstanding Muslims

By James Carroll | February 13, 2006 | The Boston Globe

WHEN THE KORAN was said to have been denigrated by American guards at 
Guantanamo last year, Muslims reacted with rage, but most observers in 
the West misunderstood why.

It was easy for Christians and Jews -- the other ''people of the Book" 
-- to think that such an insult to the Koran was like an insult to the 
Bible. That would be sacrilege enough, but it was worse than that.

Drawing analogies between religions can mislead, but the Koran stands in 
Islamic belief more as Jesus does in Christian faith than as the Bible. 
As this Christian understands it, the Koran embodies the incarnational 
principle, with the chanting of the holy words that came from God to 
Mohammed as the way God's presence is experienced again.

Non-Muslims tend to think that the Prophet is to Islam something like 
what Jesus is to Christianity (which is why non-Muslims have mistakenly 
called the religion ''Mohammedanism"), but it is the Koran that holds 
such a central place. Hence, Islamic visual celebration is calligraphy, 
not images. Therefore when the Koran is disrespected, the insult Muslims 
feel is nothing less than insult to God.

Insult, of course, is the issue that has been put so explosively before 
the world recently. The Danish cartoons were a flame applied to a primed 
fuse, and the extraordinary reactions to the images from across the 
whole House of Islam point beyond the immediate provocation to a far 
broader sense of insult that Muslims have been made to feel.

One need not excuse the indiscriminate violence of mobs in the streets, 
nor dismiss the good question of why such rage is not directed against 
the blasphemy of suicide-murders carried out in the name of Allah to 
take a lesson from what has happened. The Islamic world seems 
astoundingly united in sending a stern message to ''the West," and 
instead of focusing again on ''what went wrong" with Islam Europeans and 
Americans would do well to take that message in.

Thinking of deep history, for example, we might recall that the very 
structures of politics, culture, and thought that define western 
civilization were expressly erected in opposition to Islam more than 
1,000 years ago.

What we call ''the West" was born in the clash of civilizations that 
climaxed in the Crusades, with Muslims assigned the role of the external 
''negative other" against which Christendom defined itself positively 
(The internal ''negative other" were the Jews). Among Europeans, and 
then Americans, that intellectual polarity was sublimated over the 
centuries, but its insult remained current among Muslims, and was 
powerfully resuscitated by the assault of colonialism.

The economics of oil, including the creation of an oppressive local 
class of Western-sponsored oligarchs, locked the grievous insult in 
place. As if to be sure it was more sharply felt than ever, Europe 
imported ''guest workers" from the Islamic world, openly consigning them 
to an underclass that is as religiously defined as it is permanent.

And then the United States launched its wars. One of the major 
disconnects in the present conflict is the way in which European and 
American analysis obsesses with the apparently anarchic outbursts of 
violence in the ''Arab street" without taking in how brutally violent 
the post-9/11 ''coalition" assault has been, not only physically but 
psychologically.

Mobs throw stones through the windows of European consulate offices, and 
the legion of CNN watchers recoils with horror. Meanwhile, unmanned 
drones fly across stretches of desert to drop loads of fire on the heads 
of subsistence farmers in their villages; children die, but CNN is not 
there.

Billions of dollars are being poured each month into the project of 
imposing an American solution on an Arab problem, and increasingly the 
solution looks, from the other side, like annihilation. Muslims, that 
is, understand the new reality far better than non-Muslims do -- the 
state of open cultural warfare that ''the West" imagines is a narrowly 
targeted war against ''terrorism." Muslims, as Muslims, experience 
themselves as on the receiving end of a savage -- but, alas, not 
unprecedented -- assault.

Are they wrong? In the argument over ''Enlightenment" values, sparked by 
the cartoons, some champions of free expression have fallen into the 
deadly old mistake that led, in the 20th century, to a grotesque 
betrayal of those very values -- the over-under ranking of human beings, 
with the lives of some being counted as cheap.

Why are we killing them? As with multiple problems today, this one comes
back to the misbegotten American war. It threatens to ignite the 
century, and must be stopped.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/02/13/
misunderstanding_muslims/



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former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor
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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Tue Feb 14 11:40:45 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Valentine's Day Homework
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OPINION | February 14, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Valentine's Day Homework
By JOHN TIERNEY
Scott Haltzman's new book "The Secrets of Happily Married Men" is a work of marketing genius.
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From: Ocsomtan at aol.com (Ocsomtan@aol.com)
Date: Tue Feb 14 12:56:53 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: David
Message-ID: <1fb.1a1f37a3.31239aaa@aol.com>

Nice one.

I got this from a flight attendant when I coming back from Tokyo:

Bush finally has a plan to conquer Avian Flu: he's going to bomb the Canary 
Islands.

XX,
Nat M.
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From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:01:25 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: David
In-Reply-To: <1fb.1a1f37a3.31239aaa@aol.com>
Message-ID: <C0179DDB.290B6%michael@michaelbutler.com>

LOL
XO M

> Nice one.
> 
> I got this from a flight attendant when I coming back from Tokyo:
> 
> Bush finally has a plan to conquer Avian Flu: he's going to bomb the Canary
> Islands.
> 
> XX,
> Nat M.
> 
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Tue Feb 14 15:24:51 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Tue Feb 14 15:39:22 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] A Bouquet, For All...!
Message-ID: <986-43F266C3-2670@storefull-3275.bay.webtv.net>


"Flower Power, Indeed"

SCIENCE
Edward Willett
?
Science is not all about what happened millions of years ago, insights
into the structure of matter, or new methods of space travel.?
Sometimes, science is about very down-to-earth things...like the effect
of receiving flowers on our emotional well-being--and how to keep those
flowers fresher after we receive them.
?
Flower-giving is a natural topic for me this week because a) as I write
this, it's Valentine's Day and b) I'm married and c) I'd like to stay
that way.
?
We've been giving flowers as gifts and using them for decoration since
at least the days of the ancient Chinese and Romans. Flowers are really
modified leaves, and also, of course, the reproductive organs of the
plants on which they grow. That's probably why we're attracted to them
(and no, I'm not suggesting anything kinky). Flowering plants and their
fruits provide most of the food for us and other animals. Flowering
plants, meanwhile, need animals for pollination and to disperse their
seeds.
?
But that's not very romantic, so how about this: Jeannette
Haviland-Jones, director of the Human Development Lab at Rutgers
University, found in three studies between 2000 and 2005 that giving
flowers makes people happier and more sociable.
?
In one 10-month study, she and her team found that their study
participants (all female) responded with true smiles and reported
positive moods that lasted for days when given flowers.
?
In a second study, women and men who were alone were unexpectedly given
a flower in an elevator by a researcher. Both women and men demonstrated
increased eye contact in conversation, stood in closer proximity to the
researchers, and produced more and truer smiles than people who did not
receive flowers.
?
Finally, a third study showed that senior citizens given flowers had
improved moods and memory.
?
No matter how beautiful the flowers, it soon fades...but not as soon as
it used to, at least not when growers and buyers follow the
recommendations of? Terril Nell, an environmental horticulturist who
been part of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences post-harvest floral program for more than 20
years.
?
In the past, fresh flowers kept their quality longer because they were
sold in local markets not far from where they were grown. Quality and
longevity began to suffer when the floral industry began shipping
flowers by air to retailers, but Nell's research may have turned that
around.
?
What he's found all boils down (although boiling down your flowers is
not one of the recommendations) to tender loving care. The most
important thing growers can do is to keep flowers cold as they move from
the fields to the florists' shop, Nell says, while consumers can extend
vase life by two or three days simply by using properly mixed commercial
flower foods and clean, sanitized containers.
?
Much of Nell's research has focused on roses, because of their
popularity. One common problem with roses is "bent neck," in which the
stem just below the flower bends and the flower wilts and fails to open
as result. Bent neck usually shows up in the first three days after the
rose is bought.? Improved handling procedures have greatly reduced
this problem over the last few years, Nell says, and his team hopes to
have more recommendations to further reduce bent neck over the next
couple of years.
?
For consumers, Nell's recommendations are that rose buyers should look
for freshly cut stems, then, when they get them home, re-cut the stems,
put the flowers in a fresh vase, and use a commercial flower food. Roses
should be kept in a cool place, away from heat vents and out of direct
sunlight. Doing the same with lilies and alstromeria, Nell says, can
help them keep their leaves green even after they're in the vase. (Those
two species have often been susceptible to leaf-yellowing in the past.)
?
According to at least one florist, Charles Kremp of Kremp Florists in
Philadelphia, Nell's work has enabled florists to offer people flown-in
flowers that are of better quality and last longer than the ones that
used to be grown and sold in the same general location.
?
Revolutionary, paradigm-breaking science? No.
?
But if flowers make us feel happier, think better and smile more, then
maybe making flowers last a few days longer in the vase is just as
important a scientific achievement as some of those that get the big
headlines.
?
Flower power, indeed.?
____
??
Edward Willett is a freelance writer in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
E-mail comments or questions to ewillett@sasktel.net. Ed's website is
www.edwardwillett.com, and his blog is at edwardwillett.blogspot.com.
Ed's latest?novel is the exciting science-fiction adventure Lost in
Translation (Five Star, ISBN 1594143056?);?his latest non-fiction
book is Genetics Demystified (McGraw-Hill, ISBN?0071459308).
?


From dekuyper at sbcglobal.net  Tue Feb 14 15:12:32 2006
From: dekuyper at sbcglobal.net (Gerald Gerald)
Date: Tue Feb 14 16:20:45 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Karma??
Message-ID: <E1F9AAw-0001wy-6U@elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Right place .. right time ..
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From dayton3 at rcn.com  Tue Feb 14 17:50:42 2006
From: dayton3 at rcn.com (Nina Dayton)
Date: Tue Feb 14 18:05:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] From Michael Arian
Message-ID: <43F288F2.3050306@rcn.com>

Michael Arian tried posting this to the list but it bounced back so I am 
forwarding it for him.
Nina


>If anyone is interested-I am going to Toronto to the opening night of Hair March 30
>> with
>> Robert Camuto.WE want to know if anyone else wants to go.They have to share $ and
>> driving
>> as I do not drive.I've got a few tix set aside so if any interest let me know ASAP.XOX
>> Michael
>> 
>> Michael David Arian 
>> michaeldavidarian@yahoo.com
>> "If you can't say something nice about someone, sit by me."
>
From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Feb 15 09:35:14 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Feb 15 09:50:01 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
Message-ID: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>

KATIE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PEACE AND LOVE
MICHAEL

From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb 15 10:32:27 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb 15 10:47:08 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
References: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <046801c6325e$2c3d7e60$f1476c42@hotprojects>

happy birthday beautiful katie
cine dane a hundred more

richard haase in nyc
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To: "HAIR List" <mb-hair@islandlists.com>; "Katie Kasben"
<kkasben@biltmore.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY


> KATIE
> HAPPY BIRTHDAY
> PEACE AND LOVE
> MICHAEL
>
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From dayton3 at rcn.com  Wed Feb 15 11:47:17 2006
From: dayton3 at rcn.com (Nina Dayton)
Date: Wed Feb 15 12:02:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Current Productions
Message-ID: <43F38545.2020603@rcn.com>

Hi all -
Thought you might like to see the current list of companies doing Hair 
all over the world, for those in need of a fix.
Love,
Nina

Alaska

Perseverance Theatre
914 Third Street
Douglas, Alaska 99824
Ticket Prices: $10-$25
Box Office: 907-463-TIXS
(907) 364-2421
info@perseverancetheatre.org

March 8 - April 16, 2006

http://www.perseverancetheatre.org/

California

Glendale Community College
Theatre Arts Department
1500 North Verdugo Road
Glendale, CA 91208
Telephone: 818-240-1000 ext. 5618

March 10 - 26, 2006

http://www.glendale.edu/theatre/

*******

Shakespeare at Stinson
Stinson Beach, CA
415-868-1115

April 28 - May 21, 2006

*******

Lake Tahoe Community College
One College Drive
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150-4524
(530)541.4660

June 8-10, 15-17 at 8:00pm and June 18 at 2:00pm

Auditions April 4, at 7:00pm in the Duke Theatre

http://www.ltcc.edu/depts/theatre/productions.htm

*******

California State University at Northridge
Nordhoff Hall 100

May 5 - 14, 2006
May 5, Friday 8pm
May 6, Saturday 8pm
May 7, Sunday matinee 3pm (interpreted)
May 10, Wednesday 7pm (with post show discussion)
May 11, Thursday 8pm
May 12, Friday 8pm
May 13, Saturday 8pm
May 14, Sunday matinee 3pm
General $19 --Seniors $15---CSUN employee $13----Student & Alumni Assoc $10
Box Office (818) 677-2488

http://www.csun.edu/theatre/playseason.html

*******

City of San Rafael
July 27 - 30, 2006

Check back for more information on this production

Maryland

St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD

February 24 - March 4, 2006

http://www.smcm.edu/

Michigan

North Farmington High School
 32900 W. 13 Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-1904
(248) 785-2005

March 30 - April 8, 2006 - 7:30 PM

http://www.farmington.k12.mi.us/nfhs/home.htm

New Jersey

The Academy Theatre
146 Route 130, Bordentown, NJ 08505
(609) 291- 9000

March 10 - 25, 2006

http://www.theacademytheatre.com/

*******

Middletown High School South
900 Nut Swamp Road
Middletown, NJ
(732) 706-6111

March 16 - 18, 2006

*******
Phoenix Productions
Count Basie Theater
99 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701

September 8 - October 15, 2006 (license) or September 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 
(web site)
Orchestra $26, Sides & Rear $22
732-842-9000
http://www.phoenixredbank.com/

For audition information: http://www.phoenixredbank.com/auditions.htm

New York

Wagner College
One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
Box Office (718)-390-3259

April 5 - 23, 2006

http://www.wagner.edu/departments/theatre/production

*******

Endicott Performing Arts Center
102 Washington Avenue
Endicott, NY 13760
(607) 785-8903
epac@EndicottArts.com
 Tickets $15
March 10 & 11 at 8:00 PM, March 12 at 3:00 PM
March 17 & 18 at 8:00 PM, March 19 at 3:00 PM

http://www.endicottarts.com/

Ohio

City of Cleveland Heights
Cain Park - Alma Theater
Performances - August 3 - 20, 2006, 7:30 pm
For performance info, tickets, and seating charts: 
http://www.cainpark.com/calendar.asp

Audition information for this production:
Thu, Feb 23...5pm EQUITY ONLY
Fri, Feb 24...6-10pm EQUITY / NON-EQUITY
Sat, Feb 25...12:15-6pm EQUITY / NON-EQUITY
Sun, Feb 26...CALLBACKS

AUDITION APPOINTMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6.
Call 216.291.2323 Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm as of 
February 6.
More info: http://www.cainpark.com/theater_auditions.asp

Oregon

2nd Street Theater
 220 NE Lafayette Ave
Bend, OR 97701
 (541) 312-9626

January 16 - February 18, 2006

http://2ndstreettheater.com/

Rhode Island

Brown University
77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912
 Box Office: 401-863-2838 Open Tuesday - Friday 12-5 PM
boxoffice@brown.edu

March 9-12 & 16-19, 2006
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Theatre/hair.htm

Toronto

CanStage Bluma Theatre
27 Front St. E.
Toronto, Ontario

March 20 - June 17, 2006 (Opening night - March 30, 2006)
Monday  - Saturday - 8pm, Wednesday Matinee - 1:30 pm, Saturday matinee 
- 2:00 pm
$53 - $80 (Canadian)
For tickets - boxoffice@canstage.com or 416-368-3110 or 1-877-399-2651

http://www.canstage.com

Israel

Beit Zvi School of the Performing Arts
Ramat-Gan

March 18 - April 6, 2006

Australia

Aitkenvale

North Queensland Opera & Music Theatre Company

October 11 - 15, 2006

http://www.nqomt.org.au/

*******

Canterbury

Camberwell Grammar School
55 Mont Albert Road
Canterbury, Victoria 3126
 Telephone: 9835 1777

May 11 - 13, 2006

http://www.cgs.vic.edu.au/NewCGSSite/index.html

*******

Launceston

Launceston College
Launceston, Tasmania

June 21 - 24, 2006

http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/index.html

New Zealand

Blenheim

Marlborough Girls College
21 McLauchlan Street
Blenheim, Marlborough
Phone: +64 3 578 4031

August 1 - 5, 2006

*******

Christchurch

University of Canterbury Musical Theatre
February 17 - 25, 2006

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Wed Feb 15 11:56:15 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Wed Feb 15 12:11:48 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
In-Reply-To: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F5C9D60946BA5B7CDA008BB2FA0@phx.gbl>

Happy Birthday dear Katie! May your day be full of love and laughter, and 
may your new year bring you all you wish for yourself.
Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html




>From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: HAIR List <mb-hair@islandlists.com>, Katie Kasben 
><kkasben@biltmore.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:35:14 -0800
>
>KATIE
>HAPPY BIRTHDAY
>PEACE AND LOVE
>MICHAEL
>
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From michael at intrafi.com  Wed Feb 15 12:50:12 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:04:53 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Support Independent Oversight for Congress
Message-ID: <98c25cbcc60d4918ae58b8c345e62c80@intrafi.com>

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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Wed Feb 15 13:14:31 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:27:54 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
Message-ID: <20060215211431.58DF9DA26D@ws6-6.us4.outblaze.com>

Rj - Congrats on the great review!

Beverly


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RJ Mac" <nycrjmac@yahoo.com>
> To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Write-up
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:30:05 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
> Finally the first review for "Follies of Grandeur" has
> appeared: I hope the rest a)appear, and b) are as
> favorable.
> 
> It's going well and looking good.
> 
> rj
> 
> http://www.theaterscene.net/ts/articles.nsf/OBP/E0BAA0218A7277698525710A0069875B
> 
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From goodhairdays at yahoo.com  Wed Feb 15 13:48:13 2006
From: goodhairdays at yahoo.com (Jonathon Johnson)
Date: Wed Feb 15 14:04:13 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
In-Reply-To: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <20060215214813.42785.qmail@web52701.mail.yahoo.com>

Happy Birthday Katie! Hope it's the best!
   
  Love ~ Jonathon

Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com> wrote:
  KATIE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PEACE AND LOVE
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From: sherwin at aceross.com (Sherwin Ross)
Date: Wed Feb 15 14:38:26 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
In-Reply-To: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <20060215222349.5B67B3AE577@lax-gw06.mroute.net>

Happy Birthday Katie!

 

Sherwin "Ace" Ross

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Michael Butler
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:35 AM
To: HAIR List; Katie Kasben
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY

 

KATIE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PEACE AND LOVE

MICHAEL

 

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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Wed Feb 15 16:28:49 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Wed Feb 15 16:43:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
Message-ID: <20060216002849.B8F64109AB2@ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com>

Yeah, Katie, have a great one!!!!

Beverly



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Sherwin Ross"
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
  Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
  Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:25:50 -0800

Happy Birthday Katie!

Sherwin "Ace" Ross

-----Original Message-----
From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Michael Butler
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:35 AM
To: HAIR List; Katie Kasben
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY

KATIE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

PEACE AND LOVE

MICHAEL

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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Wed Feb 15 16:51:06 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Wed Feb 15 17:05:46 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV125E490BC40F8C4A9CF27ABFB0@phx.gbl>

Dear Katie....

Have a Special Day... ``Happy Birthday''...

Loads of Love,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Butler
Sent: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:35:14 -0800
To: HAIR List, Katie Kasben
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY

KATIE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PEACE AND LOVE
MICHAEL

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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Wed Feb 15 17:47:55 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Wed Feb 15 18:02:27 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
References: <BAY114-DAV125E490BC40F8C4A9CF27ABFB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <001601c6329b$01b6ba70$97bc2041@CowBox>

Have a wonderful birthday Katie :)

Love forever
Robin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Siomos" <barbarasiomos38@msn.com>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>; "Katie Kasben" <kkasben@biltmore.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY


> Dear Katie....
> 
> Have a Special Day... ``Happy Birthday''...
> 
> Loads of Love,
> barbara
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Butler
> Sent: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:35:14 -0800
> To: HAIR List, Katie Kasben
> Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
> 
> KATIE
> HAPPY BIRTHDAY
> PEACE AND LOVE
> MICHAEL
> 
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Wed Feb 15 20:50:02 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Wed Feb 15 21:04:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
References: <200602152000.k1FK0GAD032172@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <004a01c632b4$72bb7df0$6401a8c0@Leo>

Happiest of birthdays to ya Katie. I hope it was everything you wanted it to 
be!

PEACE,
Leo

 From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
 Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY

 KATIE
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
 PEACE AND LOVE
 MICHAEL


From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Thu Feb 16 01:36:36 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Thu Feb 16 01:52:40 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - CSUN
Message-ID: <001701c632dc$81063760$6acce804@0019448444>

HAiR Alert:


California State University, Northridge (CSUN-my alma mater) is producing
HAiR in May!

The particulars are:

Performance Dates:
     Friday, May 5, 2006 - Opening Night 8:00pm
     Saturday, May 6, 2006
     Sunday, May 7, 2006
     Wednesday, May 10, 2006
     Thursday, May 11, 2006
     Friday, May 12, 2006
     Saturday, May 13, 2006
     Sunday, May 14, 2006 - Closing 3:00pm Matinee

Prices:
     General Admission: $19.00
     Senior Admission: $15.00
     Student Admission: $10.00

Tickets may be purchased at the box office located in the Student Union
complex on Zelzah avenue (metered parking in lot G4), or by phone at (818)
677-2488 (a $4.00 surcharge is applied per order for tickets purchased by
phone). WARNING: Tickets are already on sale even though it is over 2 and
one-half months before opening, and they are reportedly selling briskly.  As
the theater seats only 350 to 400 people (it's their mid-sized room) seating
is limited.

I had a long and very interesting conversation with the director, Professor
Garry Lennon, and I was very impressed with his knowledge of, and feeling
for, HAiR. It should be a most memorable production!  Professor Lennon
should be joining this list soon -- as soon as I send him the subscription
directions.

Maybe we could get a HAiR group together to see the show and visit with the
tribe.  The box office said that there is also a possibility of being given
a group rate.  Hebe and I have already reserved for both opening and closing
nights, but would certainly love to go an additional night(s) if that works
out better.  We had better get on this soon, though, as I expect the run to
sell out quickly.



Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!

John



From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 01:44:01 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 01:59:07 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] nina we need a chatroom and its so easy to set up
Message-ID: <000801c632dd$84f6b600$f1476c42@hotprojects>

im just too old and a troglydyte to figure it out
?
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From cpreston2 at tds.net  Thu Feb 16 05:46:28 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Thu Feb 16 06:01:19 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] KATIE - A SPECIAL DAY
References: <C018A652.29123%michael@michaelbutler.com>
Message-ID: <006901c632ff$64978a20$0400a8c0@CHARLES>

My Dear Katie,

Happy, Happy, Happy birthday with Many, Many, Many more to come, Love You 
Katie

Peace, Love, And Blessings ~~Charles~~
>
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From cpreston2 at tds.net  Thu Feb 16 06:12:21 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Thu Feb 16 06:27:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
Message-ID: <007001c63303$01e12a90$0400a8c0@CHARLES>

Hello Tribe,

Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work. Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the earth started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. Well I landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like and X as seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while I cannot dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do. 
I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things so I can keep up with myself.
Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's it could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry on like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt a lot but I am managing. 
Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get me down, just something new to deal with.

Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 06:27:12 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 06:41:56 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
References: <007001c63303$01e12a90$0400a8c0@CHARLES>
Message-ID: <002f01c63305$14101850$f1476c42@hotprojects>

charles you feel better
our prayers are with you
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Preston 
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:12 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot


  Hello Tribe,

  Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work. Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the earth started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. Well I landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like and X as seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while I cannot dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do. 
  I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things so I can keep up with myself.
  Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's it could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry on like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt a lot but I am managing. 
  Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get me down, just something new to deal with.

  Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~


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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 16 06:30:56 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Thu Feb 16 06:46:52 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
In-Reply-To: <007001c63303$01e12a90$0400a8c0@CHARLES>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F24602662126E3664630382B2FB0@phx.gbl>

Dear Charles,

I'm so sorry to hear about your fall. Take care and get well. I'll be 
thinking of you.
Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html




>From: "Charles Preston" <cpreston2@tds.net>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:12:21 -0500
>
>Hello Tribe,
>
>Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work. 
>Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the 
>earth started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. 
>Well I landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like 
>and X as seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while 
>I cannot dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do.
>I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things 
>so I can keep up with myself.
>Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's 
>it could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and 
>carry on like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and 
>things hurt a lot but I am managing.
>Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get 
>me down, just something new to deal with.
>
>Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~


>_______________________________________________
>Mb-hair mailing list
>Mb-hair@islandlists.com
>http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair


From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Thu Feb 16 08:40:02 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Thu Feb 16 08:54:44 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV161C6DF11E081DD548E4AABFB0@phx.gbl>

Charles....

Peace and Love to you Brother... you are a strong person who can fight through this....

Hang in there.

Love,
barbara


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Preston
Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:12:21 -0800
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot

Hello Tribe,

Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work. Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the earth started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. Well I landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like and X as seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while I cannot dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do. 
I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things so I can keep up with myself.
Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's it could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry on like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt a lot but I am managing. 
Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get me down, just something new to deal with.

Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~
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From cpreston2 at tds.net  Thu Feb 16 08:44:46 2006
From: cpreston2 at tds.net (Charles Preston)
Date: Thu Feb 16 08:59:38 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Thanks
Message-ID: <009001c63318$4ca3e940$0400a8c0@CHARLES>

Thanks Nina, Barbara, Richard, and Sherwin,

Things are kind of a mess but I will get by. This has not broken my Sprites in anyway, I am just sort of laughing it off, that is all I can do. Whole new experience though one I never though I would have to endure. 
I was trying to cover up holes that squirrels have gotten into and found a home in the floor. Oh well I guess they get to stay for a while.
This afternoon I get to see the bone doctor so they can take a look and see what has to be done in the setting and putting on a fiberglass cast instead of this plaster splint that the hospital put on to hold things in place temporarily. 
Just can't move around a lot right now. That will change as I figure out how to become more mobile with crutches. 
Driving with my left foot is different. Hopefully I will be able to start putting pressure on the broke foot soon, this I know will make things easer. Thanks for everything.

Peace, Love, & Blessings, ~~Charles~~
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 08:52:28 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 09:07:14 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] michael dont you break anything
Message-ID: <023a01c63319$5ee32020$f1476c42@hotprojects>

Its taken a long time to get you just how everyone likes you
lol and love
R
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 08:51:38 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 09:08:53 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Thanks
References: <009001c63318$4ca3e940$0400a8c0@CHARLES>
Message-ID: <022601c63319$4185bb00$f1476c42@hotprojects>

listen charles; old jewish wisdom
anything you can fix; dont worry about
all prayers for your recovery
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Charles Preston 
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:44 AM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Thanks


  Thanks Nina, Barbara, Richard, and Sherwin,

  Things are kind of a mess but I will get by. This has not broken my Sprites in anyway, I am just sort of laughing it off, that is all I can do. Whole new experience though one I never though I would have to endure. 
  I was trying to cover up holes that squirrels have gotten into and found a home in the floor. Oh well I guess they get to stay for a while.
  This afternoon I get to see the bone doctor so they can take a look and see what has to be done in the setting and putting on a fiberglass cast instead of this plaster splint that the hospital put on to hold things in place temporarily. 
  Just can't move around a lot right now. That will change as I figure out how to become more mobile with crutches. 
  Driving with my left foot is different. Hopefully I will be able to start putting pressure on the broke foot soon, this I know will make things easer. Thanks for everything.

  Peace, Love, & Blessings, ~~Charles~~


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb 16 10:17:57 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Feb 16 10:32:39 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
In-Reply-To: <007001c63303$01e12a90$0400a8c0@CHARLES>
Message-ID: <C01A01D5.291C6%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Charles,
Sorry to hear about. Remember to be very particular about PT and start it
asap.
Peace and Love,
Michael

> Hello Tribe,
> 
> Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work.
> Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the earth
> started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. Well I
> landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like and X as
> seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while I cannot
> dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do.
> I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things so
> I can keep up with myself.
> Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's it
> could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry on
> like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt a
> lot but I am managing.
> Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get me
> down, just something new to deal with.
> 
> Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~
> _______________________________________________
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Thu Feb 16 10:38:19 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Thu Feb 16 10:53:06 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
Message-ID: <20060216183819.96AFA2F8FF@ws6-3.us4.outblaze.com>

Yes, Charles, take it easy so you can heel (pun intended) quickly!

Now you'll have time to write that play or book you've always wanted to
do (or memoirs)!

Beverly



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Barbara Siomos"
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
  Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:40:02 GMT

  Charles....

  Peace and Love to you Brother... you are a strong person who can
  fight through this....

  Hang in there.

  Love,
  barbara

  --------------------------------------------------------------------

  From: Charles Preston
  Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:12:21 -0800
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
  Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot

Hello Tribe, Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any
stage work. Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15'
latter and the earth started to slip out from underneath the latter and
through me off. Well I landed with all my weight on my right heel and
broke the heal like and X as seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted
my back. So for a while I cannot dance or stand to do my other theatrical
things I like to do. I now have to figure out how to work the internet
and start selling things so I can keep up with myself.Just thought I
would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's it could be
around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry on like
I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt a
lot but I am managing. Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am
not going to let this get me down, just something new to deal with.
Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~
_______________________________________________
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www.beverlybremers.com
www.voicercise.net
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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 16 13:42:05 2006
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Thu Feb 16 13:56:46 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-DAV161C6DF11E081DD548E4AABFB0@phx.gbl>
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From Jeff at jeffweho.com  Thu Feb 16 15:51:12 2006
From: Jeff at jeffweho.com (JeffWeHo)
Date: Thu Feb 16 16:25:12 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20060216154612.0376b8b0@mail.comcast.net >

Hello everyone,

I wanted to take the time to say hello and introduce myself as I'm new to 
the mailing list.

My name is Jeff Hanen and I've been listening to music and buying records 
since I was 7 years old. When I was 11, I bought the Broadway Hair LP and 
loved the music but was not allowed by my parents to see the show, which 
was full of hippies, drugs, profanity and nudity.

Flash forward to 1998 on a Thursday evening. I had nothing to do and picked 
up the L.A. Weekly to see what was happening. I saw an ad for a production 
of Hair at a small theater in Hollywood. I said 'what the heck' and went to 
see the show knowing absolutely nothing about it except for the music.

Needless to say I was stunned. I immediately went home and read all the 
songs lyrics on the internet and couldn't believe how wonderful they were. 
I felt compelled and drove back the next night to see the show again. They 
were sold out, but they let me sit on the floor.

As fate would have it, the backstage Stage Manager had to leave her 
position the following week and asked if I wanted to take over. I nervously 
said yes and found myself working on my first theatre production. I did not 
know at the time that working on Hair would be a life-changing experience. 
I'm pretty sure you all must know what I'm talking about, so no need to 
explain.

That started off my Stage Managing career and I've been fortunate enough to 
work on several productions of Hair in California and Europe. Even though I 
work on the technical end of shows, I've always managed to sneak myself on 
stage in some way when I do Hair. Hair has become a major part of my life! 
I never imagined working in theatre and I even have my Union card.

I've met some incredible people (and  see some of them on the mailing list) 
and feel honored that I've been able to meet and get to know Michael, Jim 
and Galt (well, I don't really know Galt) and many of the original tribe 
members.

So that's me saying hello to everyone.

Now for the second part. I've recently been listening to some of the new 
SACD's and if you have not heard one, they sound incredible on a surround 
sound system.

I've been thinking about this for some time, and I would really like to 
make some type of surround sound recording of Hair. I thought I remembered 
seeing a Quadraphonic version of Hair way back when but wasn't sure. Oddly 
enough, Michael, Jim and Galt weren't sure either. Much to my surprise, 
Jonathan Johnson found a web page that actually has pictures of two 
different Quadraphonic recordings of Hair. One is on Vinyl and the other 
Reel to Reel Tape.

If anyone could help me locate a copy of either, it would be greatly 
appreciated. I'm fairly technical oriented, and if I could come up with a 
Quad source, I believe I could make a surround sound DVD that would be 
extremely fun/interesting to listen to. I truly have no idea what the Quad 
recording will sound like, but I'd like to find out.

That's it for now. Just wanted to say 'Hi' to everyone and ask for some 
help in locating a Quadraphonic recording.

Peace and Love,

~jeff
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Thu Feb 16 16:11:44 2006
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo)
Date: Thu Feb 16 16:32:08 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Broke Foot
References: <200602162000.k1GK0Os1002784@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <001d01c63356$bc5ca4f0$6401a8c0@Leo>

Sorry to hear about your mishap Charles. Just take good care of yourself 
brother and we'll send positive, healing vibes your way.

PEACE,
Leo

 From: "Charles Preston" <cpreston2@tds.net>
 Subject: [Mb-hair] Broke Foot

 Hello Tribe,

 Well I have been put out of commission for a while doing any stage work. 
Valentine's Day I was working up under the house on 15' latter and the earth 
started to slip out from underneath the latter and through me off. Well I 
landed with all my weight on my right heel and broke the heal like and X as 
seen on the x-rays. This fall also twisted my back. So for a while I cannot 
dance or stand to do my other theatrical things I like to do.
 I now have to figure out how to work the internet and start selling things 
so I can keep up with myself.
 Just thought I would let you know what has taken place. According to Doc's 
it could be around 6 month's before I could get on the stage again and carry 
on like I like to. It is really hard to get around right now and things hurt 
a lot but I am managing.
Will keep in touch. My spirits are high and I am not going to let this get 
me down, just something new to deal with.

Peace, Love, and Blessings to all ~~Charles~~


From satie at qwest.net  Thu Feb 16 15:22:37 2006
From: satie at qwest.net (ERIK SATIE)
Date: Thu Feb 16 17:04:00 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>
Message-ID: <43F5093D.8020400@qwest.net>

Hi Robin  I was Lynn's conductor at that crazy concert  How are you and 
I too would like to find Lynnn again ???   thanks Erik Satie
From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Thu Feb 16 16:59:30 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Thu Feb 16 17:14:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20060216154612.0376b8b0@mail.comcast.net >
Message-ID: <BAY104-F84F6BAEA8EC7927ECC625B2F80@phx.gbl>

Welcome Jeff! So glad to have you join us. I'll keep an eye out for a Quad 
recording. I am sure I too have seen a photo of one, so I'm sure it existed.
Peace and Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html




>From: JeffWeHo <Jeff@jeffweho.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:12 -0800
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I wanted to take the time to say hello and introduce myself as I'm new to 
>the mailing list.
>
>My name is Jeff Hanen and I've been listening to music and buying records 
>since I was 7 years old. When I was 11, I bought the Broadway Hair LP and 
>loved the music but was not allowed by my parents to see the show, which 
>was full of hippies, drugs, profanity and nudity.
>
>Flash forward to 1998 on a Thursday evening. I had nothing to do and picked 
>up the L.A. Weekly to see what was happening. I saw an ad for a production 
>of Hair at a small theater in Hollywood. I said 'what the heck' and went to 
>see the show knowing absolutely nothing about it except for the music.
>
>Needless to say I was stunned. I immediately went home and read all the 
>songs lyrics on the internet and couldn't believe how wonderful they were. 
>I felt compelled and drove back the next night to see the show again. They 
>were sold out, but they let me sit on the floor.
>
>As fate would have it, the backstage Stage Manager had to leave her 
>position the following week and asked if I wanted to take over. I nervously 
>said yes and found myself working on my first theatre production. I did not 
>know at the time that working on Hair would be a life-changing experience. 
>I'm pretty sure you all must know what I'm talking about, so no need to 
>explain.
>
>That started off my Stage Managing career and I've been fortunate enough to 
>work on several productions of Hair in California and Europe. Even though I 
>work on the technical end of shows, I've always managed to sneak myself on 
>stage in some way when I do Hair. Hair has become a major part of my life! 
>I never imagined working in theatre and I even have my Union card.
>
>I've met some incredible people (and  see some of them on the mailing list) 
>and feel honored that I've been able to meet and get to know Michael, Jim 
>and Galt (well, I don't really know Galt) and many of the original tribe 
>members.
>
>So that's me saying hello to everyone.
>
>Now for the second part. I've recently been listening to some of the new 
>SACD's and if you have not heard one, they sound incredible on a surround 
>sound system.
>
>I've been thinking about this for some time, and I would really like to 
>make some type of surround sound recording of Hair. I thought I remembered 
>seeing a Quadraphonic version of Hair way back when but wasn't sure. Oddly 
>enough, Michael, Jim and Galt weren't sure either. Much to my surprise, 
>Jonathan Johnson found a web page that actually has pictures of two 
>different Quadraphonic recordings of Hair. One is on Vinyl and the other 
>Reel to Reel Tape.
>
>If anyone could help me locate a copy of either, it would be greatly 
>appreciated. I'm fairly technical oriented, and if I could come up with a 
>Quad source, I believe I could make a surround sound DVD that would be 
>extremely fun/interesting to listen to. I truly have no idea what the Quad 
>recording will sound like, but I'd like to find out.
>
>That's it for now. Just wanted to say 'Hi' to everyone and ask for some 
>help in locating a Quadraphonic recording.
>
>Peace and Love,
>
>~jeff


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From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 17:45:41 2006
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:00:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>
References: <43F5093D.8020400@qwest.net>
Message-ID: <000601c63363$dcbdc140$97bc2041@CowBox>

Hi Erik

I am ok thanks & I hope all is smooth in your world. Wow conducting more 
than 90 pieces good for you brother ,what fun time we all that night. I 
really enjoyed performing with her  & the Houston Symphony, she is a 
wonderful talent.

Love forever
Robin




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ERIK SATIE" <satie@qwest.net>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>


> Hi Robin  I was Lynn's conductor at that crazy concert  How are you and I 
> too would like to find Lynnn again ???   thanks Erik Satie
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From Ocsomtan at aol.com  Thu Feb 16 17:55:30 2006
From: Ocsomtan at aol.com (Ocsomtan@aol.com)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:10:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
Message-ID: <12d.6d46244a.31268712@aol.com>

Hi, Jeff:

My name is Natalie Mosco, and I was in the Original Broadway Company.  I 
actually believe I have an extra vinyl of the original recording which I'd be 
happy to pass on to you -- but let me check it out to be sure the thing still 
works.  Please e-mail me your details for mail.

Thanks and welcome to the famiuy,
Nat M.
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From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:25:54 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
References: <12d.6d46244a.31268712@aol.com>
Message-ID: <001601c63367$6a835dc0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

I listen to my original record almost every day
natalie and have since i first got it at the age of 9
me 47 now
that and my deutsche grammaphone sampler
which contains grace bumbry singing the seguidilla from carmen
i listen to both of them over and over and over again

*( for what thats worth )
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ocsomtan@aol.com 
  To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording


  Hi, Jeff:

  My name is Natalie Mosco, and I was in the Original Broadway Company.  I actually believe I have an extra vinyl of the original recording which I'd be happy to pass on to you -- but let me check it out to be sure the thing still works.  Please e-mail me your details for mail.

  Thanks and welcome to the famiuy,
  Nat M. 


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From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:26:42 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>
References: <43F5093D.8020400@qwest.net>
	<000601c63363$dcbdc140$97bc2041@CowBox>
Message-ID: <003901c63367$88f78a10$f1476c42@hotprojects>

where is lynn kellong?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin McNamara" <olhippie@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn
kellogg>


> Hi Erik
>
> I am ok thanks & I hope all is smooth in your world. Wow conducting more
> than 90 pieces good for you brother ,what fun time we all that night. I
> really enjoyed performing with her  & the Houston Symphony, she is a
> wonderful talent.
>
> Love forever
> Robin
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ERIK SATIE" <satie@qwest.net>
> To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:22 PM
> Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>
>
>
> > Hi Robin  I was Lynn's conductor at that crazy concert  How are you and
I
> > too would like to find Lynnn again ???   thanks Erik Satie
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mb-hair mailing list
> > Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> > http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Thu Feb 16 18:12:43 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:27:26 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>
References: <43F5093D.8020400@qwest.net>
Message-ID: <004001c63367$a3316810$f1476c42@hotprojects>

i remember eriks name from my youth and cant place it
getting old lol
erik besides your professional music career 
did you teach at nyu in the 70s
?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ERIK SATIE" <satie@qwest.net>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] ive always wondered whatever happened to lynn kellogg>


> Hi Robin  I was Lynn's conductor at that crazy concert  How are you and 
> I too would like to find Lynnn again ???   thanks Erik Satie
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Thu Feb 16 18:45:01 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Thu Feb 16 18:59:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F84F6BAEA8EC7927ECC625B2F80@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY104-F84F6BAEA8EC7927ECC625B2F80@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20060216184501.4dr1clgg95444g4s@208.179.130.20>

Quoting Little Birdie <lbirdie@hotmail.com>:

> Welcome Jeff! So glad to have you join us. I'll keep an eye out for a 
> Quad recording. I am sure I too have seen a photo of one, so I'm sure 
> it existed.

It definitely did exist -- I have a pretty clean copy in my collection 
that I got for dirt cheap at a used record store about ten years ago. I 
don't have a quad setup so I could never fully appreciate it, but I do 
remember playing it and noticing a few things that stood out, like how 
there are pretty noticeable chicken sounds during "Abie Baby" that were 
buried -- if not nonexistant -- in the stereo version. (I think they're 
plainly audible on the current CD reissue...)

-- 
dauber@banana-and-louie.org
AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com

From fotoblue at flash.net  Thu Feb 16 22:42:20 2006
From: fotoblue at flash.net (fotoblue@flash.net)
Date: Thu Feb 16 22:57:01 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Avian Flu solution
Message-ID: <380-22006251764220730@M2W056.mail2web.com>

Very funny!!
 Dagmar

Original Message:
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From:  Ocsomtan@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:42:18 EST



Nice one.

I got this from a flight attendant when I coming back from Tokyo:

Bush finally has a plan to conquer Avian Flu: he's going to bomb the Canary 
Islands.

XX,
Nat M.


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From dncnbear7 at yahoo.com  Thu Feb 16 17:29:59 2006
From: dncnbear7 at yahoo.com (Mark Lichtenberger)
Date: Fri Feb 17 04:23:32 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: Deadeye Dick
Message-ID: <E1F9vRI-0000FB-TH@smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

Warning, political humor attached...  you have been warned...

some of these are pretty funny, others kinda dumb...

Mark Lichtenberger
dncnbear7@yahoo.com
"Beware of sadness,
It can hit you, it can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for."
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Feb 16 20:30:41 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Feb 17 04:23:45 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Jonathan Schell Has Something To Say
Message-ID: <C01A9171.29223%michael@michaelbutler.com>


TomDispatch.com     a project of the Nation Institute
compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt
        
      

Tomgram: Jonathan Schell, Goodbye to All That

This post can be found at http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=60579

Jonathan Schell, who lives in downtown New York City, began writing his
"Letter from Ground Zero" column -- still unnamed -- almost before the white
dust storm of 9/11 had settled. The first of what would become almost
four-and-a-half years of such columns -- piercing, questioning, thoughtful
-- appeared the next week in the Nation magazine. In those early days, as
the country and Congress were being panicked into every sort of folly,
Jonathan stuck -- as calmly as possible -- to his most basic beliefs; and,
at a time when so many were ducking for cover, he never hesitated to express
them as strongly (and eloquently) as possible. To my mind, he has been a
model of intelligent analysis and resistance in this strange, unhinged
moment of ours.

Tomdispatch was far slower to start up. I began it only after two post-9/11
months of media coverage had driven me to despair, only after I couldn't
bear the thought of leaving such a degraded world to my children without
having done a thing in response. And then, of course, I had nothing as lofty
as the Nation in mind for my first tentative thoughts. An e-list of twelve
friends and relatives seemed ambitious enough. It would be another year-plus
before my still-unnamed dispatches, now heading out to hundreds of
e-readers, became (thanks to Hamilton Fish of the Nation Institute) the
Tomdispatch website. Only months after that did I post the first "Letter
from Ground Zero" at the site (through the kindness of the Nation's Katrina
van den Heuvel). As all of you know, I've proudly posted many of Jonathan's
pieces since then.

This was hardly the first time his path and mine had intersected. His
remarkable Vietnam writings, The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half,
as well as his classic Watergate book, The Time of Illusion, had helped
shape my worldview in the late 1960s and 1970s, though at the time I knew
him (the way any reader would) only on the page. In 1980, in the wake of the
Three Mile Island nuclear near-catastrophe in Pennsylvania -- I was by then
an editor at Pantheon Books -- I decided to publish Unforgettable Fire, a
volume of drawings and brief descriptions of the Hiroshima A-bomb experience
by some of its survivors -- the first such book, I believe, to take
mainstream Americans under the mushroom cloud since John Hersey's Hiroshima
in 1946. Jonathan plucked an unforgettably strange and indomitable image
from that book -- of a professor standing in his shorts in a sea of fire,
holding only a rice ball in his fist -- and, having translated it into
words, made it central to the first part of The Fate of the Earth, his
bestselling book about the superpower nuclear conundrum that, even without
the USSR, still has us in its grip. That book -- and so the image I had
published -- was one spark helping to set ablaze the vast antinuclear
movement that, in the early 1980s, all-too-briefly challenged the Reagan
administration.

Some years later, I became Jonathan's editor, leaving Pantheon Books in
1990, only to be reunited with him years later at Metropolitan Books where I
edited his post-9/11 work, The Unconquerable World. (Anyone who bothered to
read that account of several centuries of state violence and popular
resistance would have known, without a scintilla of doubt, that the Bush
"cakewalk" into Iraq would prove anything but.)

Now, in a final "Letter from Ground Zero" column, Jonathan is saying goodbye
to all that, only to offer the promise of an even deeper plunge into the
American crisis of our moment. I have no doubt that our paths will cross
again -- and soon, I hope -- at Tomdispatch. In the meantime, here (with my
thanks yet again to the editors of the Nation magazine) is his final column.
Tom

    Farewell to Ground Zero
    By Jonathan Schell

    [This column, which will appear in the March 6th issue of the Nation, is
posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine.]

    This column will be my last "Letter From Ground Zero." The series will
be succeeded by another, "Crisis of the Republic." Until recently it seemed
possible to trace the main developments in the Bush administration's
policies back to that horrible, fantastical day in September 2001, as if
following an unbroken chain of causes and effects. Now it no longer does.
The chain is too entangled with other chains, of newer and older origin.

    The war against Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden had his headquarters
and support from the ruling Taliban, was, for better or worse, a clear
response to the attack on the United States. The Patriot Act and the
reorganization of the national security apparatus likewise were responses to
September 11. But with the launch of the Iraq War, the subject was already
beginning to change. The political support for the war still flowed from
9/11, but the administration was already veering toward other objectives.
For one thing, we know that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others
had wanted to attack Iraq since their first days in office, and, for that
matter, even before. For another, the war proved to be a kind of test case
of a far more sweeping revolution in American foreign policy, soon outlined
in the White House document of 2002, the National Security Strategy of the
United States of America, which set forth American ambitions for nothing
less than global hegemony based on military superiority, absolute and
perpetual, over all other nations. Many friends of this policy frankly and
rightly called it imperial.

    The Iraq test case has failed; in doing so it has tied down forces that
otherwise might have been given further aggressive missions. The imperial
plan stalled -- as the nuclearization of North Korea without an effective
American response, among other things, attests. Nevertheless, the
administration's international ambitions had a scarcely less sweeping
domestic corollary, for which no master strategic document was supplied: a
profound transformation of the American state, in which, in the name of the
"war on terror," the President rises above the law and the Republican Party
permanently dominates all three branches of government. That project had
even less to do with 9/11 than did the Iraq War. Its roots can be traced at
least as far back as the election of 2000, when the Supreme Court improperly
interjected itself into the electoral dispute in Florida and a majority
consisting of Republican-appointed Justices awarded the presidency to the
man of their own party. Or perhaps we need to look back even further, to the
attempt by the Republican-dominated Congress to knock a Democratic President
out of office by impeaching him for personal misbehavior accompanied by a
minor legal infraction. (If those standards were still in force, President
Bush would have been impeached eleven times over by now.) Obviously, these
events had nothing to do with 9/11 or the Iraq War. Their roots are older
and deeper. To arrange all the new developments, domestic and international,
under the heading "Letter From Ground Zero," as if it all began with Osama
bin Laden, would therefore be misleading. It would be a kind of lie.

    For the series' new title, I want to acknowledge a debt to Hannah
Arendt, who in 1972 published a book of essays titled Crises of the
Republic. My single-letter change in her title reflects a belief that today
the many disparate crises of the past have combined into one general
systemic crisis, placing the basic structure of the Republic at mortal risk.
At the forefront of concern must be the question: Will the Constitution of
the United States survive? Is the American state now in the midst of a
transmutation in which the 217-year-old provisions for a balance of powers
and popular freedoms are being overridden and canceled? Or will defenders of
the Constitution step forward, as has happened in constitutional crises of
the past, to save the system and restore its integrity?

    The obvious precedent is Watergate. Then as now, the presidency became
"imperial." Then as now, a misconceived and misbegotten war led to
presidential law-breaking at home. Then as now, a quixotic crusade for
freedom abroad really menaced freedom at home. Then as now, the law-breaking
President was re-elected to a second term. Then as now, the systemic rot
went so deep that only a drastic cure could be effectual. Then as now,
opposition at the outset consisted not of any great public outrage but the
lonely courage of a few bureaucrats, legislators, and reporters. Then it was
the war in Vietnam; now it is the war in Iraq and the wider and more lasting
"war on terror." Then it was secret break-ins and illegal wiretapping; now
it is arbitrary imprisonment, torture and, again, illegal wiretapping. Then
it was presidential assertion of "executive privilege"; now it is a
full-scale reinterpretation of the Constitution to give the "unitary
executive" power to do anything it likes in "wartime."

    Of course, there are obvious differences. In the early 1970s, the
opposition party controlled both houses of the legislature, which launched
vigorous investigations and, eventually, impeachment proceedings. Now of
course the President's party controls the legislative branch and possibly
(it's still too early to say, given the traditional independence of the
judiciary and its consequent unpredictability) the judicial branch as well.
Then, the movement against the war had forced a decision to withdraw; now
the anti-war movement is much weaker. On the other hand, when the crisis
began back then, the President's popularity was high; now it is low.

    Yet what remains most striking and most surprising is the degree of
continuity of the systemic disorder in the face of radical, galloping change
in almost every other area of political life. After all, the cold war, which
seemed at the time to be the seedbed of the Watergate crisis, ended sixteen
years ago, in the greatest upheaval of the international system since the
end of World War II. How is it, then, that the United States has returned to
a systemic crisis so profoundly similar to the one in the early 1970s? By
looking at external foes, are we looking in the wrong place for the origins
of the illness? Is this transformation what a more "conservative" public now
wants? Or is there instead something in the dominant institutions of
American life that push the country in this direction? Those are some of the
questions that will be taken up in "Crisis of the Republic."

    Jonathan Schell is The Nation Institute's Harold Willens Peace Fellow.
He is the author of The Unconquerable World, among many other books.

Copyright 2005 Jonathan Schell

This article will appear in the March 6th issue of The Nation Magazine.
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From harry.sifton at sympatico.ca  Fri Feb 17 06:13:26 2006
From: harry.sifton at sympatico.ca (Harold Sifton)
Date: Fri Feb 17 07:36:29 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair in Toronto
Message-ID: <000801c633cc$579511d0$6a27e440@Harold>

FYI,
Harry




Age of Aquarius to make comeback with Toronto stage revival of Hair 
JOHN MCKAY



TORONTO (CP) - "Now more than ever" is the slogan on posters for a major stage revival of Hair, the 1960s rock musical that Toronto's CanStage will open March 20 with an all-Canadian cast of young performers. 

On hand for a media sneak preview Thursday was James Rado who created the original Broadway theatre sensation with the late Gerome Ragni and Montrealer Galt MacDermot. Rado is from Washington, D.C., Ragni was from Pittsburgh. 

Dressed in faded jeans, with shaggy hair poking out from under a woollen tuque, Rado said the Age of Aquarius is still with us, and so Hair's make-love-not-war message remains relevant. 

"The world's at war today and I think that's very bad," said Rado, who declined to give his age but, according to biographies, was born in 1932. 

"That's the main issue, I think, the human condition and our whole relationship with other nations, other peoples and ourselves." 

Martin Bragg, artistic producer for the non-profit CanStage theatre company, said that as a teenager he saw the original Hair at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre and it changed his life, propelling him into the world of theatre. 

He said the target audience will be a mixture, from boomers to youngsters like his own teenagers. 

"My three kids are dying to see the show. They're 18, 16 and 14 (and) I think there's a whole other generation between us that has been listening to that music for nigh onto 30 years now." 

The youthful cast of 21, which had been rehearsing for only three days, performed still-rough but energetic versions of two numbers, Aquarius and Hair, for the assembled media. Only one of the singers was significantly hairy, another was a skinhead. So it looks like there will be some bushy wigs in place when the curtain rises next month. 

"A lot of magic is going to be happening between now and then," agreed a grinning Rado, who explained that this Hair will be an approach that he's been working on for 15 years. 

In addition to all-new staging, the original script has been "expanded and deepened," Rado said, adding that MacDermot initially resisted changes but finally gave his blessing. 

"He's 100 per cent, wholeheartedly behind this." 

While there have been college campus and repertory productions over the years, this will be the first major revival in North America in more than three decades. 

Bragg conceded they got the idea for a media peek from "another little show down the road" that did the same thing. Lord of the Rings plans to open a week earlier than Hair. In both cases, Bragg said, London and Broadway will be watching closely. 

"There are a lot of eyes on this," he said. "And I think that if this production . . . (is successful), this will be the next launch of Hair." 

The original Hair premiered off-Broadway in 1967 and won rave reviews. It moved to Broadway the following year where it ran for more than 1,800 performances. There were subsequent morality disputes in Boston and Tennessee over its perceived anti-flag and general anti-American message, to say nothing of the brief all-nude appearance by the cast, all of which seems quaint today. 

By the time director Milos Forman got around to making the film version for Hollywood in 1979, the disco generation had supplanted the hippie era and Hair seemed very dated. 

Rado doesn't see any censorship problems facing the new production. 

"Today almost anything goes, I guess the theatre is pretty wide open," he said. "Hair is not a rough show. So many of the things out today are much more explicit in language and so forth." 

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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Fri Feb 17 19:30:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: Did the Pro-Choice Movement Save America?
Message-ID: <20060218031514.C241DB8076@alternet.org>


This story has been forwarded to you from
http://www.alternet.org by michael@intrafi.com

Be sure to read the last paragraph
Michael

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Did the Pro-Choice Movement Save America?
http://www.alternet.org/story/32369

AlterNet speaks with Cristina Page, the author of a controversial new book about the state of sex, morality and abortion rights in America.
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From dayton3 at rcn.com  Sat Feb 18 12:07:03 2006
From: dayton3 at rcn.com (Nina Dayton)
Date: Sat Feb 18 12:22:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair in West Hollywood
Message-ID: <43F77E67.2090909@rcn.com>

Hi All -

Thought you might like to know about this production of Hair in West 
Hollywood. It's being done by the Moscow Theater of Music and Drama, as 
part of the Russian Nights Festival. Some info about that follows as well.
Nina

Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama
Russian Nights Festival 

Silver Screen Theater at the Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, California 90069-5701
310-657-0800

Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 7 PM
Tickets: $30


> For Immediate Release
> 
> Contact: Nicole Goesseringer 310-822-4775; ngoesseringer@hotmail.com

> Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama - "Hair"
> Founded in 1999, The  Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama will present "Hair."

> "HAIR"
> Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 7 PM
> Silver Screen Theater at Pacific Design Center
> Tickets: $30
> A symbol of a hippie generation in the United States, "Hair," which first
> debuted in 1968, offered audiences a new type of rock musical. Since its
> premiere, "Hair" has sustained well over two thousand performances in
> numerous countries all over the world. Russian audiences first saw the
> musical produced by director Bo Crowell with the participation of its
> Broadway producer Michael Butler in November 1999 at the Moscow Estrada
> Theatre. 
> 
> 
> FOURTH ANNUAL RUSSIAN NIGHTS FESTIVAL SET TO LIGHT UP LOS ANGELES IN APRIL
> 2006
> 
> Most Diverse Celebration of Russian Culture to Date Featuring Film Festival
> of New Russian Cinema, North American Debuts by Olga Pona's Chelyabinsk
> Theater of Contemporary Dance and SIRIN Ensemble of Russian Sacred Music,
> Art Exhibit "Moscow Original Prints 1961-2005", Concert by Jazz Great Igor
> Butman; and Moscow Youth Theatre Production of "Hair"
> 
> Los Angeles, February 13, 2006 - The fourth annual Russian Nights Festival
> in Los Angeles presented by Moscow's Stas Namin Center today unveiled its
> most impressive and diverse schedule to date. From April 2-8, 2006, the City
> of Los Angeles will celebrate the rich culture of Russia, past and present,
> with an exciting new festival program featuring the best from the worlds of
> film, modern dance, music, theatre and contemporary art.
> 
> "We're proud to bring "Russian Nights" to Los Angeles once again in 2006,"
> said Mr. Namin. "This year's festival will be a ground-breaking celebration
> of Russian culture, featuring the North American debuts by some the top
> artists and performers in Russia today. Los Angeles audiences will have the
> unique opportunity to experience and enjoy the very best in Russian arts and
> culture in this action-filled week."
> 
> "Russian Nights 2006" will feature the following schedule of events:
> Opening Night Party
> April 2, 2006 - 8:30 PM
> Pacific Design Center
> 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069
> 
> Film Festival
> April 2-8, 2006
> Silver Stage Theater at Pacific Design Center
> Tickets: Individual Screenings - $10
> Boasting a program comprised of some of Russia's most interesting new works
> from 2005/2006, "Russian Nights" will debut a wide selection of feature
> films by the country's top directors including Dreaming of Space (2005,
> Alexei Uchitel); First On the Moon (2005, Alexey Fedorchenko); Garpastum
> (2005, Alexei German-Jr.); The Graveyard Shift (2004, Valery Rozhnov);
> Half-Mist (2005, Artyom Antonov); The Italian (2005, Andrei Kravchuk); The
> Ninth Regiment (2005, Fyodor Bondarchuk); Shadow Boxing (2005, Alexei
> Sidorov); The Sun (2005, Alexander Sokurov); Remote Access (2004, Svetlana
> Proskurina). Additional titles and schedule to be announced soon.
> 
> New this year will be the "IndieVisual" Festival of Independent Film.
> Inspired by its October 2005 Moscow debut, "IndieVisual" was featured as
> part of "The Festival of American Contemporary Culture: American Autumn in
> Moscow," that highlighted the works of eight American directors who work
> outside Hollywood's mainstream, including Gregg Araki, Todd Solondz, Gus Van
> Sant, Todd Haynes, Kathryn Bigelow and others. Russian Nights' "IndieVisual"
> program will feature Venice Film Festival winner Aleksey Fedorchenko's "The
> First on the Moon"; Moscow Film Festival Fipressi Jury Prize winner, the
> vivid surreal comedy drama "Dust" produced by director Sergei Loban; and
> Rotterdam Film Festival entry "Deadline" by Pavel Ruminov.
> 
> As in past years, the stage of the Silver Screen Theater at the Pacific
> Design Center will be host to the presentation of Russian Nights' Tower
> Awards, recognizing excellence in the world of arts and entertainment.
> Previous festival recipients include such industry heavyweights as Ray
> Bradbury, Francis Ford Coppola, Leonardo DiCaprio, William Friedkin, Dustin
> Hoffman, Nastassja Kinski,  Milla Jovovich, Shirley MacLaine, Oliver Stone,
> Sharon Stone,  Francis Ford Coppola, and others.  Tower Award 2006
> recipients will be announced soon.
> 
> Olga Pona's Chelyabinsk Theater of Contemporary Dance
> Monday April 3, 2006 - 7:30 PM
> Zipper Concert Hall
> 200 S. Grand Avenue
> Los Angeles, CA 90012
> Tickets: $30, $40, $50
> The award-winning and internationally celebrated Chelyabinsk Theater of
> Contemporary Dance under the direction of founder Olga Pona will make its
> North American debut premiering performances of  "Waiting" and "Staring Into
> Eternity" on April 3. Company art director and choreographer Olga Pona  is
> the winner of two Golden Mask awards and her pioneering dance company has
> appeared in numerous international festivals throughout Eastern and Western
> Europe and Asia, including Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Latvia,
> Lithuania, Kazakhstan, and Korea.
> 
> SIRIN Ensemble of Russian Sacred Music
> Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 8 PM
> Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church
> 505 N. Rodeo Drive
> Beverly Hills, CA 90210
> Tickets: $30, $35, $40
> SIRIN (pronounced "Siren"), a unique ensemble of Russian sacred music, will
> make its North American premiere during the festival. Founded in 1989 by a
> group of young professional musicians, SIRIN (named after The Bird of
> Paradise from Russian Christian legends)  performs "ineffable songs about
> saved souls," always striving to revive Eastern Orthodox musical traditions
> and inject new life into ancient Russian hymns. The ensemble's repertoire
> includes chants from the early Roman, Serbian, Byzantine and Georgian
> churches, spiritual verses (an age-old variation of sacred folk music), and
> contemporary sacred music composed by composer Vladimir Martynov.  With its
> original repertoire and exotic performance style, impeccable vocal quality
> and professionalism, SIRIN has garnered recognition throughout Eastern and
> Western Europe.
> 
> 
> Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama - "Hair"
> Founded in 1999, The  Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama will present Galt
> MacDermot's musical "Hair."
> "HAIR"
> Thursday, April 6, 2006 - 7 PM
> Silver Screen Theater at Pacific Design Center
> Tickets: $30
> A symbol of a hippie generation in the United States, "Hair," which first
> debuted in 1968, offered audiences a new type of rock musical. Since its
> premiere, "Hair" has sustained well over two thousand performances in
> numerous countries all over the world. Russian audiences first saw the
> musical produced by director Bo Crowell with the participation of its
> Broadway producer Michael Butler in November 1999 at the Moscow Estrada
> Theatre.
> 
> Igor Butman Jazz Quartet
> April 7, 2005 - 9 PM
> Pacific Design Center
> Internationally renowned tenor saxophonist Igor Butman will lead a quartet
> in a special jazz concert performance. Unquestionably Russia's top jazz
> performer, Butman has appeared with such music legends as Ray Charles,
> George Benson, Al Jarreau, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra under the
> leadership of Wynton Marsalis, to name a few.
> 
> "Moscow Original Prints 1961-2005"
> April 2-8, 2006
> Pacific Design Center
> The exhibition hall of the Pacific Design Center will host the contemporary
> art exhibit "Moscow Original Prints 1961-2005," . The exhibition showcases
> over 60 works by 40 of Russia's top contemporary artists, including Farid
> Bogdalov, Grisha Bruskin, Olga Bulgakova, Valery Gerlovin, Eduard
> Gorokhovsky, Iliya Kabakov, Komar and Melamid, Leonid Sokov, Vladimir
> Yankilevsky and Igor Makarevich. The works showcased will represent several
> generations of independent artists who worked on the fringe of the official
> Socialist-Realism mainstream in the former USSR, and today remain committed
> to their independent and solitary artistic quests.
> 
> Closing Night Party
> April 8, 2006 - 8:30 PM
> Pacific Design Center
> For more information regarding Russian Nights 2006, please visit
> www.russiannightsfest.com
> Tickets available AT www.ticketweb.com; www.ticketsR.com; Ticket box:
> 323-874-8216
> About The Stas Namin Center
> 
> The Stas Namin Center is a Russian non-profit organization dedicated to
> preserving Russian cultural traditions and advancing contemporary Russian
> arts and culture. Since the date of its establishing in 1987, SNC became the
> first non-governmental public organization for culture and education of new
> Russia . The SNC has organized, created and set up the first independent
> Russian television and radio, music production studios, art gallery, design
> studio and magazine; formed the first Russian private Symphony orchestra.
> Music festivals, movie production and film festivals are among other
> activities. As an independent legal entity, SNC often works in association
> with Russian Ministries, governmental and public organizations and
> foundations. SNC's activity is aimed at setting up festivals and exhibitions 
> of Russian culture and other cultural actions in the field of music,
> cinema, fine arts, theatre, ballet for the purpose of increasing public
> interest in Russian culture all over the world.
> The Festival is supported by The East West Foundation for Culture and
> Education & The Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Russian
> Federation.


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Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: At Religious Universities,
	Disputes Over Faith and Academic Freedom
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By NEELA BANERJEE
A gay film festival and a staging of "The Vagina Monologues" at the University of Notre Dame have highlighted disputes over how best to promote open inquiry at religiously affiliated schools.
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Date: Sat Feb 18 14:40:35 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: The Truth About Drug Hysteria
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From jlunger at earthlink.net  Sun Feb 19 08:58:45 2006
From: jlunger at earthlink.net (Jeff Lunger)
Date: Sun Feb 19 09:13:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] re: Hello Hair List/Quad Recording
Message-ID: <23349454.1140368325625.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hybrid.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Hey  Jeff,  I was going to suggest ebay but it looks like you thought of that -- good luck!  I see they have a quad copy of Dude up too (that's Gerry and Galt's other great collaboration) although a bit pricey!

Jeff

PS - your doggies are lovely!
From georgeberger69 at yahoo.com  Sun Feb 19 10:06:13 2006
From: georgeberger69 at yahoo.com (James Pappaconstantine)
Date: Sun Feb 19 10:21:38 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Current Productions
In-Reply-To: <43F38545.2020603@rcn.com>
Message-ID: <20060219180613.89589.qmail@web54214.mail.yahoo.com>

Nina.. any update on the reunion slides to the archives page front? I tried emailing you directly a couple of times but not sure they got through. Would love to get them back soon. Thanks, JIM

Nina Dayton <dayton3@rcn.com> wrote:  Hi all - 
Thought you might like to see the current list of companies doing Hair all over the world, for those in need of a fix.
Love,
Nina

Alaska   
  Perseverance Theatre 
914 Third Street 
Douglas, Alaska 99824 
Ticket Prices: $10-$25 
Box Office: 907-463-TIXS 
(907) 364-2421 
info@perseverancetheatre.org 
  March 8 - April 16, 2006 
  http://www.perseverancetheatre.org/
California   
  Glendale Community College 
Theatre Arts Department 
1500 North Verdugo Road 
Glendale, CA 91208 
Telephone: 818-240-1000 ext. 5618 
  March 10 - 26, 2006 
  http://www.glendale.edu/theatre/ 
  ******* 
  Shakespeare at Stinson 
Stinson Beach, CA 
415-868-1115 
  April 28 - May 21, 2006 
  ******* 
  Lake Tahoe Community College 
One College Drive 
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150-4524 
(530)541.4660 
  June 8-10, 15-17 at 8:00pm and June 18 at 2:00pm 
  Auditions April 4, at 7:00pm in the Duke Theatre 
  http://www.ltcc.edu/depts/theatre/productions.htm 
  ******* 
  California State University at Northridge 
Nordhoff Hall 100 
  May 5 - 14, 2006 
May 5, Friday 8pm 
May 6, Saturday 8pm 
May 7, Sunday matinee 3pm (interpreted) 
May 10, Wednesday 7pm (with post show discussion) 
May 11, Thursday 8pm 
May 12, Friday 8pm 
May 13, Saturday 8pm 
May 14, Sunday matinee 3pm 
General $19 --Seniors $15---CSUN employee $13----Student & Alumni Assoc $10 
Box Office (818) 677-2488 
  http://www.csun.edu/theatre/playseason.html 
  ******* 
  City of San Rafael 
July 27 - 30, 2006 
  Check back for more information on this production 
  
Maryland   
  St. Mary's College of Maryland 
St. Mary's City, MD 
  February 24 - March 4, 2006 
  http://www.smcm.edu/ 
  
Michigan   
  North Farmington High School 
 32900 W. 13 Mile Road 
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-1904 
(248) 785-2005 
  March 30 - April 8, 2006 - 7:30 PM 
  http://www.farmington.k12.mi.us/nfhs/home.htm 
  
New Jersey   
  The Academy Theatre 
146 Route 130, Bordentown, NJ 08505 
(609) 291- 9000 
  March 10 - 25, 2006 
  http://www.theacademytheatre.com/ 
  ******* 
  Middletown High School South 
900 Nut Swamp Road 
Middletown, NJ 
(732) 706-6111 
  March 16 - 18, 2006 
  ******* 
Phoenix Productions 
Count Basie Theater 
99 Monmouth Street 
Red Bank, NJ 07701 
  September 8 - October 15, 2006 (license) or September 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 (web site) 
Orchestra $26, Sides & Rear $22 
732-842-9000 
http://www.phoenixredbank.com/ 
  For audition information: http://www.phoenixredbank.com/auditions.htm 

New York   
  Wagner College 
One Campus Road 
Staten Island, NY 10301 
Box Office (718)-390-3259 
  April 5 - 23, 2006 
  http://www.wagner.edu/departments/theatre/production 
  ******* 
  Endicott Performing Arts Center 
102 Washington Avenue 
Endicott, NY 13760 
(607) 785-8903 
epac@EndicottArts.com 
 Tickets $15 
March 10 & 11 at 8:00 PM, March 12 at 3:00 PM 
March 17 & 18 at 8:00 PM, March 19 at 3:00 PM 
  http://www.endicottarts.com/ 

Ohio   
  City of Cleveland Heights 
Cain Park - Alma Theater 
Performances - August 3 - 20, 2006, 7:30 pm 
For performance info, tickets, and seating charts: http://www.cainpark.com/calendar.asp 
  Audition information for this production: 
Thu, Feb 23???5pm EQUITY ONLY 
Fri, Feb 24???6-10pm EQUITY / NON-EQUITY 
Sat, Feb 25???12:15-6pm EQUITY / NON-EQUITY 
Sun, Feb 26???CALLBACKS 
  AUDITION APPOINTMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 
Call 216.291.2323 Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm as of February 6. 
More info: http://www.cainpark.com/theater_auditions.asp 
  
Oregon   2nd Street Theater 
 220 NE Lafayette Ave 
Bend, OR 97701 
 (541) 312-9626 
  January 16 - February 18, 2006 
  http://2ndstreettheater.com/ 

Rhode Island   
  Brown University 
77 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912 
 Box Office: 401-863-2838 Open Tuesday - Friday 12-5 PM 
boxoffice@brown.edu 
  March 9-12 & 16-19, 2006 
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm 
  http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Theatre/hair.htm 

Toronto   
  CanStage Bluma Theatre 
27 Front St. E. 
Toronto, Ontario 
  March 20 - June 17, 2006 (Opening night - March 30, 2006) 
Monday  - Saturday - 8pm, Wednesday Matinee - 1:30 pm, Saturday matinee - 2:00 pm 
$53 - $80 (Canadian) 
For tickets - boxoffice@canstage.com or 416-368-3110 or 1-877-399-2651 
  http://www.canstage.com 

Israel   Beit Zvi School of the Performing Arts 
Ramat-Gan 
  March 18 - April 6, 2006 

Australia   Aitkenvale 
  North Queensland Opera & Music Theatre Company 
  October 11 - 15, 2006 
  http://www.nqomt.org.au/ 
  ******* 
  Canterbury 
  Camberwell Grammar School 
55 Mont Albert Road 
Canterbury, Victoria 3126 
 Telephone: 9835 1777 
  May 11 - 13, 2006 
  http://www.cgs.vic.edu.au/NewCGSSite/index.html 
  ******* 
  Launceston 
  Launceston College 
Launceston, Tasmania 
  June 21 - 24, 2006 
  http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/index.html 

New Zealand   Blenheim 
  Marlborough Girls College 
21 McLauchlan Street 
Blenheim, Marlborough 
Phone: +64 3 578 4031 
  August 1 - 5, 2006 
  ******* 
  Christchurch 
  University of Canterbury Musical Theatre 
February 17 - 25, 2006 
  http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ 
  

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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Sun Feb 19 10:54:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: Questions of Culture
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OPINION | February 19, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: Questions of Culture
By DAVID BROOKS
Economics, which assumes people are basically reasonable, is no longer queen of the social sciences.
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Date: Sun Feb 19 11:03:36 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: China's Cyberdissidents and the Yahoos at
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
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From barbarasiomos38 at msn.com  Sun Feb 19 14:23:53 2006
From: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun Feb 19 14:39:12 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Park Officials Slaughter More Than 750 Yellowstone
 Buffalo- from the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Message-ID: <BAY114-DAV421BCD59B2B5BE91BB26EABFE0@phx.gbl>

This is so sad...

peace,
barbara


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Sent: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:05:22 -0800
To: barbarasiomos38@msn.com
Subject: FW: *Park Officials Slaughter More Than 750 Yellowstone Buffalo- from the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN (BFC)

P.O. Box 957

West Yellowstone, MT  59758

(P) 406-646-0070

(F) 406-646-0071

BFC-Media@wildrockies.org

http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

 


PARK OFFICIALS SLAUGHTER MORE THAN 750 YELLOWSTONE BUFFALO
Park Service Ignores Mandate and Caters to Livestock Industry

For Immediate Release, February 15, 2006
Contact Stephany Seay (406) 646-0070

GARDINER, MONTANA.  Today, wranglers at Yellowstone National Park captured
another sixty-nine wild buffalo in the Stephens Creek Capture Facility,
within Yellowstone's northern boundary.  This capture brings Yellowstone's
February capture total to 262 wild buffalo.

"The Park Service works for the American people who have repeatedly urged
them to stop slaughtering buffalo and to take proactive measures to ensure
their future," said Stephany Seay of the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC).
"Instead Yellowstone officials choose to ignore the public and continue to
slaughter buffalo."

Since Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) has sent 171 buffalo to
slaughter.  None have been tested for brucellosis, the supposed reason for
the Park's aggressive management.  The NPS sent eighty-six buffalo to
slaughter this morning, fifty on Tuesday, and fifty-two on Monday.  As in
January, Montana has refused to transport the buffalo to slaughter,
prompting involvement from the US Departments of Agriculture and Homeland
Security.


So far this year, the NPS has captured nearly 1,000 wild Yellowstone buffalo
and has sent nearly 800 to slaughter.  In January the NPS captured 672 wild
buffalo, sending 583 to slaughter and 86 calves to the Corwin Springs
quarantine facility where at least half will eventually be slaughtered.
Three buffalo died in the Stephens Creek capture facility in January from
injuries and mishandling by government officials. 

"Yellowstone's buffalo slaughter is disgraceful and unnecessary," said BFC's
Mike Mease.  "Rather than expending its limited resources on capturing and
slaughtering buffalo, the Park Service should work to safeguard critical
winter habitat outside Park boundaries."

The Yellowstone bison herd, America's only continuously wild herd, now
numbers fewer than 4,000 animals. Wild bison are a migratory species native
to North America and once spanned the continent, numbering an estimated 30
to 50 million.

Some of the bison captured by the NPS migrated onto or near the Royal Teton
Ranch, owned by the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT), and located
within North America's largest wildlife migration corridor directly adjacent
to Yellowstone's northern boundary.  In 1999 U.S. taxpayers spent $13
million on conservation easements to allow wild bison to access these lands.
The deal remains unfinished.  CUT owns less than 150 head of cattle.

Fear that bison may transmit brucellosis to cattle is the purported
justification for the aggressive management of wild buffalo by state and
federal agencies.  Yet there has never been a documented case of wild bison
transmitting brucellosis to livestock, even during the decades before the
current plan was enacted.  None of the adult bison slaughtered by the Park
Service this year were first tested for brucellosis.

On Tuesday, the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) forced Montana Fish,
Wildlife and Parks (FWP) to again suspend Montana's bison hunt along
Yellowstone's northern boundary.  DOL agents shot a bull bison that they
claim was a threat to a small herd of privately owned cattle.  Bull bison
pose no risk of transmitting the cattle-borne disease brucellosis. 

The NPS and the DOL defend their actions under the Interagency Bison
Management Plan (IBMP).  Under the IBMP, wild bison are largely confined to
Yellowstone National Park, which lacks critical winter range.  The
state-federal IBMP was purportedly crafted to "protect and maintain a wild,
free-roaming population of Yellowstone bison" while maintaining Montana's
brucellosis-free status.  In reality, the livestock industry is the Plan's
sole beneficiary. Under the IBMP, bison are routinely slaughtered, shot,
hazed, and otherwise prevented from carrying out their natural migration,
all of which alter their behavior and erodes their wildness.  BFC opposes
the IBMP and advocates for protected bison habitat in Montana, as well as
more sensible, livestock-based risk management, including fencing and
vaccination of domestic cattle in Montana.

 

 

Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field, everyday, to
stop the slaughter of the wild Yellowstone buffalo. Volunteers defend the
buffalo on their native habitat and advocate for their protection. BFC video
footage and photos are available upon request and may be viewed at
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.

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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Sun Feb 19 15:18:43 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Sun Feb 19 15:33:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Another Cowsill, Passes
In-Reply-To: mb-hair-request@islandlists.com's message of Sun, 19 Feb 2006
	12:00:18 -0800
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"Lead singer of The Cowsills dies as brother is buried"

CBC Arts 


Billy Cowsill, once the frontman for 1960s family band The Cowsills, has
died at his home in Calgary at the age of 58.

Family members confirmed Sunday that Billy died Friday night. He had
been fighting a lengthy battle with a variety of ailments which included
emphysema, osteoporosis and Cushing syndrome.? But the family did not
reveal what caused Billy's death.

Paul Cowsill, brother to Billy, told the Providence Journal that Billy
had a history of problems with drugs and alcohol which had caught up
with him.

The family had been gathered in Rhode Island over the weekend for a
memorial service for Barry Cowsill, a brother who was also a member of
the band. Barry drowned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September.

The Cowsills were the inspiration for the 1970s television sitcom The
Partridge Family.? The act included parents Bud and Barbara, daughter
Susan and brothers William (Billy), Robert, Richard, Barry, Paul and
John.?

The Cowsills also had their own TV special and performed as a headline
act in Las Vegas. They had several hits including Hair, The Rain and
Indian Lake. They disbanded in the early seventies and went their own
ways.

Billy moved to Canada 35 years ago and continued his musical career with
the bands Blue Northern and The Blue Shadows, which released two
well-received albums.

In an interview with the Calgary Sun in January 2002, Billy admitted his
life spiralled out of control in Vancouver during the mid-1990s.? His
Calgary friends came to his rescue:? &ldquo;They dragged me [back to
Calgary], put me up in a facility and allowed me to get my health, my
sanity?back.

Around 2002, Billy was halfway through a psychology degree from Mont
Royal College and had formed a weekend party band called the
Co-Dependents. His family said he was working towards a degree in
musical education when he died.

Cowsill is survived by two sons, Travis and Del.
More on this subject
 
Copyright ? CBC 2006


From venuetheatre at juno.com  Sun Feb 19 15:19:02 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre@juno.com)
Date: Sun Feb 19 15:39:20 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair Digest, Vol 20, Issue 24
Message-ID: <20060219.182304.3968.8.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Nina
That list of productions of HAiR is incredible!    23!!!!!!    Keep that
up.  I was able to send the notices to many friends who never saw the
show.
I hope someday that my long running production will be there too. 


Corinne

** Venue Theatre Collective and  Actors Studio  is a not for profit
501(c)(3) Corporation, founded in 1992.
ALL MAIL TO THE OFFICE:  5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710.
THE STUDIO is in MAINLANDS PLAZA, 9125 US 19 N, Pinellas Park (at
Mainlands Blvd.) 1 mi N of Gandy/Park Blvd.  727-822-6194  cell 
727-656-8525
Visit our web site at www.VenueActorStudio.org
From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Feb 19 18:01:23 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun Feb 19 18:16:14 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair Digest, Vol 20, Issue 24
In-Reply-To: <20060219.182304.3968.8.venuetheatre@juno.com>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F4338191D4874A4E2854EFB2FF0@phx.gbl>

Hi Corinne,

That info is always available on the web site on the current productions 
page:

http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/CurrentProductions.html

But I try and periodically post it here to the list so that we can keep 
remembering how Hair is still around us everywhere. I will continue to do so 
every now and then. I'm glad it was helpful.
Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html


From venuetheatre at juno.com  Mon Feb 20 07:07:29 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre@juno.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 07:24:13 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Thank you for smoking?
Message-ID: <20060220.100746.3536.0.venuetheatre@juno.com>


RE:  Cigarette smokers' rights
 
 
I do not believe that I should be subjected to other peoples' additions.
The air is mine too
You choose to pollute your air, that is fine.  You have no right to
pollute mine.
 
Clean indoor air.  Clean outdoor air.
 
Smokers should have their own space far away from everyone else.
Not near the front door where everyone has to walk to enter.
 
If we are fighting against pollution, this is just part of that. 
 
Smokers, stay home.
 
 
 
 
Corinne
 
 
 
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** Venue Theatre Collective and  Actors Studio  is a not for profit
501(c)(3) Corporation, founded in 1992.
ALL MAIL TO THE OFFICE:  5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710.
THE STUDIO is in MAINLANDS PLAZA, 9125 US 19 N, Pinellas Park (at
Mainlands Blvd.) 1 mi N of Gandy/Park Blvd.  727-822-6194  cell 
727-656-8525
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Mon Feb 20 12:13:31 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Mon Feb 20 12:28:28 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Just Call Me, Nicotine Arnstein
In-Reply-To: mb-hair-request@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 20 Feb 2006
	12:00:12 -0800
Message-ID: <985-43FA22EB-8161@storefull-3275.bay.webtv.net>


Corinne, all you virulent anti-smokers would be much more believable if
you spent nearly the same amount of time protesting car emissions.

You breathe in more crap walking a few feet down the street, then you
will ever get from second hand smoke.

(Oh. And all those second hand smoke reports from several; years back?
They were scientifiiclly proved, to be bogus.  But that didn't get quite
as much ink, in the morning news...)

My favorite line from New York City's smoking ban. which started almost
three years ago, belonged to a waitress, at Bleecker Street's
"Back Fence":

"If the Mayor is so worried about my well-being, let the city pay a
third of my rent..."

With some significant exceptions, and perhaps you're one of them, so
many of the folks who get in your face about not smoking are really just
delighted to have something to be haughty about.

'Sort of like Moonies, with a nasty streak.


Now, shall we talk about the tar content of your average joint?


It will be much more benificial when all the anti-smoking people start
turning their attention to all the crap put every day, into the
envronment.

But, of course, that would take more effort, than just beng smug.


Jim Burns





 

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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 12:40:47 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: History Illuminates the Rage of Muslims
Message-ID: <20060220202548.1B50823749C@lax-gw01.mroute.net>

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From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Mon Feb 20 16:03:39 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Mon Feb 20 16:20:17 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- Broke Foot
Message-ID: <003501c6367a$49b2c340$ded5e804@0019448444>

Hebe and I are most sorry to hear of your fall and your suffering a broken
heel and twisted back.  We send our best wishes for your most speedy
recovery.


Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!

John & Hebe



From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Mon Feb 20 16:22:02 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Mon Feb 20 16:38:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
Message-ID: <004e01c6367c$d79be2c0$ded5e804@0019448444>

Re: HAiR at California State University, Northridge, California.

CAUTION:  If you wish to purchase tickets for the CSUN production of HAiR
over the phone BE SURE THAT YOU CALL THE BOX OFFICE DURING ITS WORKING HOURS
AND HAVE, IN FACT, REACHED THE BOX OFFICE LOCATED ON THE CAMPUS!  The $4.00
surcharge will be applied once per order.  If you call while the campus box
office is closed, your call may be automatically forwarded to a commercial
ticketing company with very unsavory business practices.  One person that I
know was lied to about ticket pricing, porked very badly on the additional
fees, and then these fees were applied PER TICKET rather than once per
order!  BE CAREFUL!!!!!


++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
Original Message:


Message: 11
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:36:36 -0800
From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke@prodigy.net>
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - CSUN
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Message-ID: <001701c632dc$81063760$6acce804@0019448444>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

HAiR Alert:


California State University, Northridge (CSUN-my alma mater) is producing
HAiR in May!

The particulars are:

Performance Dates:
     Friday, May 5, 2006 - Opening Night 8:00pm
     Saturday, May 6, 2006
     Sunday, May 7, 2006
     Wednesday, May 10, 2006
     Thursday, May 11, 2006
     Friday, May 12, 2006
     Saturday, May 13, 2006
     Sunday, May 14, 2006 - Closing 3:00pm Matinee

Prices:
     General Admission: $19.00
     Senior Admission: $15.00
     Student Admission: $10.00

Tickets may be purchased at the box office located in the Student Union
complex on Zelzah avenue (metered parking in lot G4), or by phone at (818)
677-2488 (a $4.00 surcharge is applied per order for tickets purchased by
phone). WARNING: Tickets are already on sale even though it is over 2 and
one-half months before opening, and they are reportedly selling briskly.  As
the theater seats only 350 to 400 people (it's their mid-sized room) seating
is limited.

I had a long and very interesting conversation with the director, Professor
Garry Lennon, and I was very impressed with his knowledge of, and feeling
for, HAiR. It should be a most memorable production!  Professor Lennon
should be joining this list soon -- as soon as I send him the subscription
directions.

Maybe we could get a HAiR group together to see the show and visit with the
tribe.  The box office said that there is also a possibility of being given
a group rate.  Hebe and I have already reserved for both opening and closing
nights, but would certainly love to go an additional night(s) if that works
out better.  We had better get on this soon, though, as I expect the run to
sell out quickly.



Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!

John


From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Mon Feb 20 17:47:24 2006
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Mon Feb 20 18:02:26 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
In-Reply-To: <004e01c6367c$d79be2c0$ded5e804@0019448444>
Message-ID: <BAY104-F3159C6832983EC6DB17AE1B2FC0@phx.gbl>

Thanks John for the information. With your permission I would like to add 
your post to the listing for this production on the Current Productions page 
of the Archives web site. Please let me know if that would be OK with you.
Thanks,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html




>From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:22:02 -0800
>
>Re: HAiR at California State University, Northridge, California.
>
>CAUTION:  If you wish to purchase tickets for the CSUN production of HAiR
>over the phone BE SURE THAT YOU CALL THE BOX OFFICE DURING ITS WORKING 
>HOURS
>AND HAVE, IN FACT, REACHED THE BOX OFFICE LOCATED ON THE CAMPUS!  The $4.00
>surcharge will be applied once per order.  If you call while the campus box
>office is closed, your call may be automatically forwarded to a commercial
>ticketing company with very unsavory business practices.  One person that I
>know was lied to about ticket pricing, porked very badly on the additional
>fees, and then these fees were applied PER TICKET rather than once per
>order!  BE CAREFUL!!!!!
>
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
>Original Message:
>
>
>Message: 11
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:36:36 -0800
>From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke@prodigy.net>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - CSUN
>To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Message-ID: <001701c632dc$81063760$6acce804@0019448444>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>HAiR Alert:
>
>
>California State University, Northridge (CSUN-my alma mater) is producing
>HAiR in May!
>
>The particulars are:
>
>Performance Dates:
>      Friday, May 5, 2006 - Opening Night 8:00pm
>      Saturday, May 6, 2006
>      Sunday, May 7, 2006
>      Wednesday, May 10, 2006
>      Thursday, May 11, 2006
>      Friday, May 12, 2006
>      Saturday, May 13, 2006
>      Sunday, May 14, 2006 - Closing 3:00pm Matinee
>
>Prices:
>      General Admission: $19.00
>      Senior Admission: $15.00
>      Student Admission: $10.00
>
>Tickets may be purchased at the box office located in the Student Union
>complex on Zelzah avenue (metered parking in lot G4), or by phone at (818)
>677-2488 (a $4.00 surcharge is applied per order for tickets purchased by
>phone). WARNING: Tickets are already on sale even though it is over 2 and
>one-half months before opening, and they are reportedly selling briskly.  
>As
>the theater seats only 350 to 400 people (it's their mid-sized room) 
>seating
>is limited.
>
>I had a long and very interesting conversation with the director, Professor
>Garry Lennon, and I was very impressed with his knowledge of, and feeling
>for, HAiR. It should be a most memorable production!  Professor Lennon
>should be joining this list soon -- as soon as I send him the subscription
>directions.
>
>Maybe we could get a HAiR group together to see the show and visit with the
>tribe.  The box office said that there is also a possibility of being given
>a group rate.  Hebe and I have already reserved for both opening and 
>closing
>nights, but would certainly love to go an additional night(s) if that works
>out better.  We had better get on this soon, though, as I expect the run to
>sell out quickly.
>
>
>
>Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!
>
>John
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Mb-hair mailing list
>Mb-hair@islandlists.com
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From michael at intrafi.com  Mon Feb 20 19:38:23 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Mon Feb 20 19:53:56 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] An article for you from an Economist.com reader.
Message-ID: <200602210310.WAA06984@stage-web-app.economist.com>


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In the past, researchers have used data from planes that fly
criss-crossing paths over Greenland to assess the extent of its ice
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surface of the ice rises to an altitude of 3km. Not surprisingly, the
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used to fill in the blanks and to estimate the role played by these
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Greenland ice sheet is relatively stable in the centre, but thinning
slowly at the edges.


That conclusion, however, has been questioned by Eric Rignot of the
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in 1979. Most of this has been in the south of the island, which is
where the accelerating glaciers lie. Water flowing from the surface
could ease the passage of the glaciers into the sea. Taking both
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to the rise in global sea levels has increased from 0.23mm a year in
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On top of this, since glacial ice contains no salt, the water formed
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Mon Feb 20 20:04:07 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Mon Feb 20 20:19:03 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Nice Ellen Stewart/La Mama Artcile...
In-Reply-To: mb-civic-request@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 20 Feb 2006
	19:45:54 -0800
Message-ID: <27607-43FA9137-1912@storefull-3274.bay.webtv.net>


There's also a couple of nice photos, if yougo the url, listed below....
______

"Speaking From the Capital of the Global East Village"
By LIESL SCHILLINGER 
February 12, 2006, The New York Times 

WHEN Ellen Stewart set up shop in her East Ninth Street basement 45
years ago, her neighbors noticed the procession of handsome white men
coming to visit a black woman and called the police. "The people in the
building didn't want me there because I was a negress," she said,
sitting in her living room, regal and serene, her once-jet-black hair
now a halo of white with loose braids at the top. "They kept lodging
complaints, then one day a man came to me with a warrant for my arrest
for prostitution! I said, 'I'm not a prostitute, I'm running a theater.' 

An official who showed up said he could give her a license if she called
her theater a cafe. Needing a name on the spot, an actor called out, "It
has to be 'Mama,' " she recalled. The official added "La" for effect,
and Cafe La MaMa was born. 

Last month, Ms. Stewart was once again visited by city officials, only
this time they were led by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who was
presenting Ms. Stewart with an honorary key to the building ? on East
Fourth Street ? that has been the home of La MaMa's Annex since 1974.
The city had been the landlord of that building and five others used by
nonprofit and arts groups for decades, but late last year, it sold them
to the occupants for $1 each. 
La MaMa wasn't the only one that got a bargain, though. The city has
also gotten good value. 

Over the last four and a half decades, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club
has presented more than 2,500 shows, played host to artists from more
than 70 countries, and earned more than 30 Obies and scores of Drama
Desk Awards, Bessies and Villager Awards. Ms. Stewart was one of the
first New York theatermakers to nurture difficult works by Sam Shepard,
Harold Pinter, Lanford Wilson, Eug?ne Ionesco, Philip Glass, Robert
Wilson, Jerzy Grotowski, Jean-Claude Van Italie and Joseph Chaikin,
among many others. She herself has received, among other accolades, a
MacArthur fellowship, 15 honorary doctorates and numerous lifetime
achievement awards in numerous countries. And at 80-plus, she is still
going. On an annual budget of $1.2 million, never charging for rehearsal
or theater space for groups who perform there, the company presents
between 50 and 60 shows a year, from three-week Equity showcases to
one-night presentations. And that doesn't include the La MaMa companies
she has spawned all over the world. 

This season's calendar is representative. 

Among its eclectic offerings are Brooke O'Harra's production of "Major
Barbara," which serves up George Bernard Shaw Kabuki-style; the mournful
15th-century Dutch meditation "Death and the Ploughman" performed with
song and movement; a musical about the late East Village resident
Quentin Crisp, performed and written by his friend David Leddick; and a
trilogy about the Trojan War that uses puppets and was conceived by
Theodora Skipitares. 

Nowadays, this sort of genre blending is common in theater, but Ms.
Stewart, by many accounts, is the one who started it. Theater, it turns
out, was not her first calling. In 1950, she started work as an
executive designer of women's clothing for Saks Fifth Avenue. "Edith
Lances created an atelier for me and put an ad in The New York Times for
couturier's assistants," Ms. Stewart recalled. "When the white women
came and saw who they had to work with, they refused. For that matter,
most of the places around Saks Fifth Avenue, a colored couldn't eat. You
could go in and sit, but you never got served." Taking advantage of a
State Department program, Ms. Lances found a way to bring qualified
Jewish women from Europe to work. "Right off the bat, Edith got 10 of
these ladies who came from the pogroms, from Auschwitz, from all these
terrible places, and they were my assistants. I was the only thing in
America they had, and they all called me 'Mama.' She used her earnings
to finance an experimental Off Broadway theater company. 

La MaMa's archives contain some highlights of those early years:
playbills that anticipated a revolution in graphic design; photographs
of a young Harvey Fierstein; film of Mr. Chaikin acting; and scenes of
the parade that Tom O'Horgan ? director of "Hair" ? led down Second
Avenue on April 2, 1969, taking Villagers to where a determined Ellen
Stewart was speaking to reporters about her new performance space. Con
Ed hadn't repaired a gas main break on the street, she pointed out; the
stage might be unheated, there might be no lights, there might be
problems with the sound ? but a show was going to happen. 

Her ambitions broadened in the early 70's, after she took a production
of "Medea," directed by Andrei Serban, with music by Elizabeth Swados,
abroad. The actors ended up performing the play at the ruins of Baalbek,
in northern Lebanon ? a vast site built by Roman emperors that
contains temples to Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus, and covers many city
blocks. 

Ms. Stewart recalled the exhilaration and affirmation of that long-ago
staging. "Lebanon is a very proper country, and before the war, it was
considered the Paris of the East. Ladies came to the festival in tiaras
and long dresses, the men came in their tuxedos. Andrei staged it so the
audience had to follow the actors throughout the temples. Diane Lane was
6, she played one of the children; Priscilla Smith was Medea, and the
winds were so high that her costume was out like a sail." 

Sitting in her apartment, which occupies the top floor of one of La
MaMa's two buildings, she paused for breath and relived the moment. 

"The women hitched up their dresses and gave their shoes to their
husbands. Their husbands tied their jackets around their waists, and
everyone was sweating and panting and joining in like it was a
bacchanal." 

Local legend had it that a white bird, the spirit of Dionysus, lived in
those ruins. 

"Nobody had ever seen the white bird, but that bird came out from
somewhere that night, and flew across the ruins, flapping his wings,"
she said. "After Baalbek, we couldn't imagine playing anywhere else
unless we had a big space. It changed our lives, it changed everything
about us, and our ideas about how really to do theater." 

Returning to New York, Ms. Stewart embarked on a campaign to acquire the
Annex space where La MaMa E.T.C. performs its big productions. The Annex
opened on Oct. 18, 1974, with the trilogy of "Electra," "The Trojan
Women," and "Medea." 

She was drawn to classical plays, she explained, because they allowed
for, and honored, a multi-ethnic cast. "I wanted to do plays that a
black person could play in where they didn't have a needle in their arm,
or their mother was washing clothes, or their father was in jail, or
their mother was a prostitute," she said. 

This spring, Ms. Stewart is planning many other trips abroad. She is
scheduled to travel with Ms. Skipitares to Albania, where they are to
create a play with students from the Arts Academy in Tirana. After that,
she returns to Manhattan to present her new production of "Hercules,"
with her Great Jones Repertory Company. She is also considering going to
Manila for a weeklong workshop, before returning to work on productions
bound for the Venice Biennale and Taiwan. That's quite an agenda for the
next few months. 

"Let me tell you something," she said. "We're huge. You can't tell it
all." 

? Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company 

Speaking From the Capital of the Global East Village - New York Times 

Address:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/theater/newsandfeatures/12schi.html?ex=1140584400&en=f31951c12560da2e&ei=5070


From dayton3 at rcn.com  Tue Feb 21 06:17:46 2006
From: dayton3 at rcn.com (Nina Dayton)
Date: Tue Feb 21 06:33:45 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] From Corinne Broskette
Message-ID: <43FB210A.9080005@rcn.com>



-------- Original Message --------
Date: 	Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:32:35 -0500
From: 	venuetheatre@juno.com
To: 	dayton3@rcn.com



tried to send this to the page, can you post it for me?
Corinne
 
 
The United States port is part of the United States of America.  Any 
sale that makes it part of a foreign nation is treason, espionage, 
rebellion, sabotage, illegal, sedition, immoral, dishonorable, and a 
betrayal of the United States of America.

----------- 911 Times Six --------

Quote: "We've got to protect ourselves by doing smart things in 
America," - George Bush

------- "Smart" for Who? -----

Quote: "WASHINGTON (Feb. 19) - A company at the Port of Miami has sued 
to block the takeover of shipping operations there by a state-owned 
business in the United Arab Emirates. It is the first American courtroom 
effort to capsize a $6.8 billion sale already embroiled in a national 
debate over security risks at six major US ports affected by the deal. 
The Port of Miami is among the nation's busiest. It is a hub for the 
nation's cruise ships, which carry more than 6 million passengers a 
year, and the seaport services more than 30 ocean carriers, which 
delivered more than 1 million cargo containers there last year. The 
sale, already approved by the Bush administration, has drawn escalating 
criticism by lawmakers in Washington who maintain the United Arab 
Emirates is not consistent in its support of US terrorism-fighting 
efforts. The Bush administration in recent days has defended its 
approval of the sale, and has resisted demands by Congress to 
reconsider. "We've got to protect ourselves by doing smart things in 
America," Bush said. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack described 
the United Arab Emirates on Friday as a "long-standing friend and ally" 
and said the United States and UAE had a good relationship." end of quote

Bu$h seems to have forgotten that a few 'close friends and allies' of 
the Bu$h family - the bin Laden Family - financed from within the UAE - 
flew a few airplanes into some buildings. And now Bu$h authorizes 
strategic US ocean port operations to be sold by Tony Blair's 'close 
friends and allies' to the same people. Amazing.

So the Bush Administration has turned over the operations of six 
critical US marine ports - the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal in 
Manhattan, Port Authority terminals in Newark, New Jersey, and marine 
cargo terminals in four other major port cities: Philadelphia, 
Baltimore, Miami and New Orleans,

Bu$h has handed them to DP World ( 
<http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/%3Ca%20href=>http://www.dpiterminals.com/) 
a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. DP World was formed by the 
merger of Dubai Ports Authority ("DPA") and DPI Terminals ("DPI") in 
September 2005. DP World is a leading port operator with operations in 
Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The company 
already has 22 container terminals in 15 countries. Countries include: 
Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Germany, Romania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, 
Djibouti, U.A.E., India, China, Malaysia, South Korea and Australia.

The deal to sell the US port operations to DP World was approved earlier 
this week by the Bush Administration and a secretive US Government 
interagency panel known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the 
United States (CFIUS). The Bush Administration approval was given 
despite the UAE's history as an operational and financial base for the 
hijackers who carried out the 911 attacks against New York and Washington.

Before we go further - Let me ask you a question - Would Israel sell 
operation of the Port of Haifa to DP World? Owned by the United Arab 
Emirates? Go on - Ask yourself -

The six US port facilities were already operated by Tony Blair's 'close 
friends and allies' - The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation 
Company ("P&O") in London, England. P&O has a presence in 19 countries 
across world with 29 container terminals and logistics operations in 
over 100 ports. ( 
<http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/%3Ca%20href=>http://portal.pohub.com/portal/page?_pageid=71,207172&_dad=pogprtl&_schema=POGPRTL)

The United Arab Emirates purchase of the London based - 25,000 employee 
- P&O - handled by Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, N M Rothschild & Sons and 
Morgan Stanley & Co - ( 
<http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/%3Ca%20href=>http://www.dpiterminals.com/fullnews.asp?NewsID=40Z) 
will give the UAE control - in addition to the six critical US ports - 
of marine operations in some 50 ports throughout Australia, New Zealand 
and Papua, New Guinea - Port Kelang container terminal in Malaysia - 
Southampton Container Terminals Ltd, England - Asian Terminals Inc, 
South Harbour of Manila, Philippines -Tianjin Xingang Sinor Terminal Co. 
Ltd, China - Shekou Container Terminal, southern China - Terminales Rio 
de la Plata, Argentina - Vostochny International Container Terminal 
Services, Russia - Freeport Terminal -Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Port Qasim 
International Container Terminal, Pakistan - Maputo International Port 
Services, Mozambique - Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, 
India - National Stevedores, South Africa - Antwerp Combined Terminals, 
Belgium - Chennai Container Terminal, India - Container port at Qingdao 
on the central coast of China - Terminal Petikemas, Surabaya - Centerm 
container terminal, Vancouver, Canada - The Laem Chabang International 
Terminal, Thailand - Le Havre, Fos and Marseilles Terminals, France - 
Mundra Container Terminal, India - Yarimca Container Terminal, Turkey 
and terminals in Hong Kong and Korea - with additional logistics 
businesses in Hong Kong and China, according to Sultan Ahmed Bin 
Sulayem, Executive Chairman at DP World.

Quote: "White House Defends Sale of Port Operations to Arab Firm"

"WASHINGTON (Feb. 17) - The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed 
criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that 
gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant 
operations at six major American ocean ports. Lawmakers said the UAE was 
an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components 
sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a Pakistani scientist, Abdul 
Qadeer Khan. They also said the UAE is one of only three countries to 
recognize the now-toppled Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate 
government." end of quote

The story gets worse -

At the same time - George Bush hired a senior United Arab Emirates 
executive - from the same company - DP World - that's buying the six US 
Ports - to be the US Government Maritime Administrator who runs the 
entire US Port System - for the Bush administration.

Quote: " DP WORLD EXECUTIVE NOMINATED FOR PRESTIGIOUS US GOVT. POSITION

<http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/%3Ca%20href=>http://www.dpiterminals.com/fullnews.asp?NewsID=39

"Dubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed 
news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated 
by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key 
transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the 
Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member. The White House has 
issued a statement from Washington, DC announcing the nomination. The 
confirmation process will begin in February. Mr. Sanborn currently holds 
the position of Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for 
the Dubai-based company.

Mohammed Sharaf, CEO, DP World said: "While we are sorry to lose such an 
experienced and capable executive, it is exactly those qualities that 
will make Dave an effective administrator for MarAd.  We are proud of 
Dave's selection and pleased that the Bush Administration found such a 
capable executive. We wish him all the best in his new role."

Ted Bilkey, Chief Operating Officer, DP World said: "Dave's decades of 
experience in markets around the world, together with his passion for 
the industry and commitment to its development, will allow him to make a 
positive contribution to the work of the Maritime Administration. We 
wish him well for the future."

Mr. Sanborn, a graduate of The United States Merchant Maritime Academy, 
joined DP World in 2005. He previously held senior roles with shipping 
lines CMA-CGM (Americas), APL Ltd and Sea-Land and has been based, 
besides the US, in Brazil, Europe, Hong Kong and Dubai during his 
career.  He has also served in the US Naval Reserve. Mr. Sanborn is due 
to take up his new role based in Washington DC later in 2006." end of quote

Are there - Any - US firms to operate the US ports? No - Because the 
largest US port operator already sold out to Dubai Ports International. 
Last year - And the Bu$h 'Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
States' (CFIUS) approved it.... The Sheeple never noticed....

Quote: "February 23, 2005
Dubai Ports International buys CSX World Terminals

<http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/%3Ca%20href=>http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/02/21/daily19.html

Dubai Ports International has completed its acquisition of the 
international terminal business of CSX Corp. Dubai Ports paid $1.14 
billion for CSX World Terminals. The deal makes Dubai Ports one of the 
six largest operators of terminals in the world and gives it a presence 
in Asia for the first time.

In January CSX World Terminals acquired a majority of Asia Container 
Terminals, which included one of the biggest container terminals in Hong 
Kong. A month earlier CSX (NYSE:CSX) had announced plans to sell CSX 
World Terminals to Dubai Ports International. CSX spokeswoman Misty 
Skipper said the sale of World Terminals marks CSX's withdrawal from the 
international terminal business, though the company still operates in 
the terminal business domestically through CSX Intermodal." end of quote

Dr. Condoleezza Rice is President Bush's foreign policy tutor.

"There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in 
the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on 
it." Condoleezza Rice - April 2004 - On preventing the September 11 attacks.

"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Condoleezza Rice 
- September 2002 - On avoiding a nuclear attack.

"I would hope that our friends in Abu Dhabi would not be offended by the 
fact that in our democracy, we debate these things," Rice said in the 
interview with the Arab journalists on the US response to the sale of 
the US ports to the United Arab Emirates.

How many times will the 'sold out' - Ph.D. stuffed - GOP - refuse to 
'predict' - a clear and present - nation-fatal attack - organized - 
again - by 'our friends in Abu Dhabi' ?

Apparently - Never - Now the Bu$h Administration contracts out strategic 
US ocean port operations to 'our friends in Abu Dhabi' - the United Arab 
Emirates - a key transfer agent for shipments of smuggled nuclear 
components from Pakistan to Iran, North Korea and Libya - Especially 
since the UAE now owns major shipping terminals in Venezuela, Germany, 
Romania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, U.A.E., India, China, 
Malaysia, New Guinea, Malaysia, Philippines, Argentina, Indonesia, 
Pakistan, Surabaya, Turkey, Hong Kong and Korea - all 'insecure allies' 
of the USA - all run by Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman at 
DP World.

And then the Bu$h Administration hires a United Arab Emirates senior 
executive from DP World as GOP Maritime Administrator to run - All - US 
marine ports...

Bu$h and Rice couldn't spot a nuke in their bath tub. Much less one 
'embedded' in a United Arab Emirates container ship inbound from China 
or India or Djibouti or Morocco or Pakistan or the UAE. But the US 
Sheeple probably could... after it goes off.

Why is Bu$h absolutely determined to make New York, New Jersey, 
Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia the new 'Bikini Atolls' 
for 'unscheduled' nuclear demonstrations?

Oddly - The Port of Houston, Texas.... Is not included in the deal...

Sheeple - Who is getting sold down the river here?

You Are.... 

By the Billionaire Bu$h Family and their offshore 'close friends and 
allies'....

"We've got to protect ourselves by doing smart things in America," Bush 
said.

"Smart" for Who? I wonder what the kickback will be... For six GOP 
'mushroom clouds'...

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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Tue Feb 21 08:51:59 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Tue Feb 21 09:07:09 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] From Corinne Broskette
In-Reply-To: <43FB210A.9080005@rcn.com>
References: <43FB210A.9080005@rcn.com>
Message-ID: <20060221085159.0rtt37odmicgckcc@208.179.130.20>

Quoting Nina Dayton <dayton3@rcn.com>:

> The United States port is part of the United States of America.  Any 
> sale that makes it part of a foreign nation is treason, espionage, 
> rebellion, sabotage, illegal, sedition, immoral, dishonorable, and a 
> betrayal of the United States of America.

As much as I hate 1) participating in political discussions, 2) 
participating in off-topic discussions (say what you will, and although 
I respect other people's opinions, this isn't Hair), and 3) killing, I 
must say:

Isn't treason a crime punishable by death?

Any volunteers to throw the switch?

Then again, the Statue of Liberty could technically be considered part 
of France...

-- 
dauber@banana-and-louie.org
AIM: ddaauubbeerr
blog: http://scattered-frog.blogspot.com

From IHHS at aol.com  Tue Feb 21 08:22:48 2006
From: IHHS at aol.com (IHHS@aol.com)
Date: Tue Feb 21 11:56:23 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] McDonalds and fries
Message-ID: <E1FBdNW-0002ec-0b@smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net>

 just in case you have not seen  this and the facts that follow the article 
about the corp giant, it is  interesting and revealing     
McDonald's French Fries Have More Trans Fats Than Ever Before
_http://www.mercola.com/2006/feb/21/mcdonalds_french_fries_have_more_trans_fat
s_than_ever_before.htm_ 
(http://www.mercola.com/2006/feb/21/mcdonalds_french_fries_have_more_trans_fats_than_ever_before.htm)  
 
 

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From akstudio at flash.net  Tue Feb 21 09:10:37 2006
From: akstudio at flash.net (DAGMAR & ANTON)
Date: Tue Feb 21 12:51:15 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Sex education in the schools
Message-ID: <20060221171037.90216.qmail@web81309.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I know you will LOVE this one!
so I just have to send it on...
 xx
Dagmar

Why Sex Ed needs to be taught in Catholic Schools.....
 
 
 Mother Superior called all the Nuns together one
 evening and said to them:
 "I  must tell you all something. We have a case of
 Gonorrhea in the convent....."! 

"Thank God," said an elderly Nun at the back, 
"I'm so sick of  Chardonnay....."
  


The "ELVIS! by Dagmar" Book (and a sampling of R'n'R photos) can be seen here: 
http://www.dagmarfoto.com

Come visit Atelier Anton Krajnc in Cyberspace: 
http://www.AntonKrajnc.com
From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Feb 21 13:23:32 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Feb 21 14:39:41 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Modern America in a Roman predicament >By Harold James
	FT.com
Message-ID: <C020C4D4.29493%michael@michaelbutler.com>


 
FT.com      
 
Modern America in a Roman predicament
>By Harold James
>Published: February 20 2006 20:39 | Last updated: February 20 2006 20:39
>>

Before September 11 2001, it was widely assumed that globalisation bred
peace and stability. But over the past five years, there has been increased
nervousness about this concept in many parts of the world. It is not worry
about the state of the world economy, which has proved amazingly robust, but
about the framework for world governance. In particular, there is widespread
mistrust of the world?s only superpower and increased doubt about the sort
of politics that America tries to impose on the rest of the world.

As the Bush presidency gets bogged down in the quagmire of Iraq, there is
still a widespread assumption that there might be a quick and easy fix.
Critics of the administration think that the world?s view of America would
be transformed if only the US president sounded kinder. Many officials in
Washington believe that if the world understood all they really wanted was
peace, prosperity and democracy, the criticism would subside. Such
optimistic beliefs are mistaken but are characteristic of an ever-recurring
dilemma of an interconnected world. Consider some historical parallels: in
1776, the year of the US Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith and Edward
Gibbon published the first volumes of two works that both used history to
illuminate Britain?s own problems with the globalisation of that age: The
Wealth of Nations and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

In these monumental and parallel works, Smith and Gibbon explored what could
be called the ?Roman dilemma?. In essence, how peaceful commerce is
frequently seen as a way of building a stable, prosperous and integrated
international society. At the same time, however, the peaceful liberal
economic order leads to domestic clashes and also to international rivalry
and even wars. The conflicts disturb and eventually destroy the commercial
system and the bases of prosperity and integration. These interactions seem
to be a vicious spiral or a trap from which it seems almost impossible to
escape. The liberal commercial world order subverts and destroys itself, and
Smith?s gloomy (but surprisingly little known) concluding chapters are a
long way from the apparently optimistic beginning, with its focus on the
immense productivity gains possible as a result of the division of labour.

The central problem identified by Gibbon and Smith is that complex societies
need rules to function, whether on a national (state) level or in
international relations. But we do not always comply voluntarily with rules
and rules require some enforcement. In addition, they need to be formulated.
The enforcement and the promulgation of rules are both consequences of
power, and power is always concentrated and unequally distributed.

Even when we think of voluntarily negotiated rules, there is the memory of
some act of power, the long shadow of a hegemonic strength ? the shadow of
Rome ? falling on the negotiators.

The propensity for subversion and destruction of a rule-based order comes
about because ? and whenever ? there is a perception that rules are
arbitrary, unjust and reflect the imposition of particular interests in a
high-handed imperial display of power.

Power protects commerce and peace but power is clearly not necessarily a
good in itself. It offers a basis on which greater power constantly
accumulates, as power is used to affect the outcome of social processes. One
way of putting this is the frequently made observation that the exercise of
power has an addictive quality. The adage that power tends to corrupt itself
affects the way in which the holders of power behave. Even if the wielder of
power resists the addiction, other people suspect the addiction is there.

People who believe in universal rules and people who see power behind the
rules can scarcely talk to each other. They each have an overall
interpretation of such power that the other perspective simply disappears.
The alternative is rejected as naive or ideological, as in Robert Kagan?s
famous juxtaposition of the Mars and Venus views of American and Europeans.
As approaches, they are like the optical illusions made famous by Maurits
Cornelius Escher, where squares either pop out of a page or recede, but
where the observer cannot be brought to see both phenomena at the same time.
There is one perspective ? or the other.

Both politicians and their critics find this hard to understand as they try
to respond to global challenges, such as the threat of terrorism or the
proliferation of nuclear weapons. They are about to be as baffled by Iran as
they were by Iraq.

If the threat lies in discontent about modernity, and if poverty and
marginalisation are the breeding grounds for violence and terrorism, then
growth and a better distribution of wealth can hold a more effective cure.
If, on the other hand, cultural differences are really so profound, then
imperial conflict and conquest is the only adequate answer. Much
contemporary debate, especially after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fluctuates
between these poles. Should the industrial world buy off or fight the
barbarians at the gate?

Yet both options look like different aspects of the old but unsatisfactory
Roman solution: conquer and provide prosperity. There is only a difference
in emphasis. The first is arrogantly belligerent and the second arrogantly
patronising. Both recommend more power and more modernisation.

There exists an alternative to the ?challenge and response? model that has
as its outcome the clash of civilisations. The other path depends on
dialogue within a shared natural law framework.

Instead of thinking that technical development will automatically produce
prosperity and thus solve, as it were by a kind of magic, the problem of
values, policymakers in the industrialised world need to think and talk
explicitly about values and traditions.

What does Islamic tradition have in common with western traditions that
respects human dignity; and how can modern America show that it respects
these values too?

Resolving the issue of the Guant?namo Bay detentions would be an obvious
first step to showing how America can accept as well as invent universal
values.

The writer, professor of history and international affairs at the Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University, is author of The Roman Predicament to
be published in May by Princeton University Press
>
>
>
 
 
 
 


From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Wed Feb 22 01:24:05 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Wed Feb 22 01:40:26 2006
Subject: Re- RE: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
Message-ID: <001801c63791$bd415980$4d48e804@0019448444>

Dear Nina:

Permission granted.  Thanks for asking.

Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!

John

++++++++++++
Original Message:

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:47:24 +0000
From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Message-ID: <BAY104-F3159C6832983EC6DB17AE1B2FC0@phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

Thanks John for the information. With your permission I would like to add
your post to the listing for this production on the Current Productions page
of the Archives web site. Please let me know if that would be OK with you.
Thanks,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html




>From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Re- HAiR Alert - CSUN
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:22:02 -0800
>
>Re: HAiR at California State University, Northridge, California.
>
>CAUTION:  If you wish to purchase tickets for the CSUN production of HAiR
>over the phone BE SURE THAT YOU CALL THE BOX OFFICE DURING ITS WORKING
>HOURS
>AND HAVE, IN FACT, REACHED THE BOX OFFICE LOCATED ON THE CAMPUS!  The $4.00
>surcharge will be applied once per order.  If you call while the campus box
>office is closed, your call may be automatically forwarded to a commercial
>ticketing company with very unsavory business practices.  One person that I
>know was lied to about ticket pricing, porked very badly on the additional
>fees, and then these fees were applied PER TICKET rather than once per
>order!  BE CAREFUL!!!!!
>
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
>Original Message:
>
>
>Message: 11
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:36:36 -0800
>From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke@prodigy.net>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR Alert - CSUN
>To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Message-ID: <001701c632dc$81063760$6acce804@0019448444>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>HAiR Alert:
>
>
>California State University, Northridge (CSUN-my alma mater) is producing
>HAiR in May!
>
>The particulars are:
>
>Performance Dates:
>      Friday, May 5, 2006 - Opening Night 8:00pm
>      Saturday, May 6, 2006
>      Sunday, May 7, 2006
>      Wednesday, May 10, 2006
>      Thursday, May 11, 2006
>      Friday, May 12, 2006
>      Saturday, May 13, 2006
>      Sunday, May 14, 2006 - Closing 3:00pm Matinee
>
>Prices:
>      General Admission: $19.00
>      Senior Admission: $15.00
>      Student Admission: $10.00
>
>Tickets may be purchased at the box office located in the Student Union
>complex on Zelzah avenue (metered parking in lot G4), or by phone at (818)
>677-2488 (a $4.00 surcharge is applied per order for tickets purchased by
>phone). WARNING: Tickets are already on sale even though it is over 2 and
>one-half months before opening, and they are reportedly selling briskly.
>As
>the theater seats only 350 to 400 people (it's their mid-sized room)
>seating
>is limited.
>
>I had a long and very interesting conversation with the director, Professor
>Garry Lennon, and I was very impressed with his knowledge of, and feeling
>for, HAiR. It should be a most memorable production!  Professor Lennon
>should be joining this list soon -- as soon as I send him the subscription
>directions.
>
>Maybe we could get a HAiR group together to see the show and visit with the
>tribe.  The box office said that there is also a possibility of being given
>a group rate.  Hebe and I have already reserved for both opening and
>closing
>nights, but would certainly love to go an additional night(s) if that works
>out better.  We had better get on this soon, though, as I expect the run to
>sell out quickly.
>
>
>
>Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and joy!
>
>John


From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Feb 21 21:33:24 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Feb 22 04:56:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] After Neoconservatism
Message-ID: <C02137A6.294E5%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Well, I guess it is true "when it rains it pours". Now, so soon, we have
another fascinating document to read.
Hope you find it worth your while.
Michael

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From mblaxill at yahoo.com  Wed Feb 22 09:01:25 2006
From: mblaxill at yahoo.com (Mike Blaxill)
Date: Wed Feb 22 09:16:24 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] From AmericaBlog
Message-ID: <20060222170125.57434.qmail@web53008.mail.yahoo.com>

I was just reading the Amsterdam guide book my
hotel left in my room... 
by John in DC - 2/22/2006 

And here's the section on AIDS...
In contrast to saying nothing, as in England, or
inciting celibacy, as in the States, or parading
a horde of sport and fashion celebrities holding
up condoms on the front cover of a popular
magazines, as in France - Holland decided on a
more direct sensible approach. We were treated to
a special public service health film on
nationwide television during prime time: two
totally nude attractive teenagers (male & female)
masturbating while holding hands and kissing. The
voice over narrative explained that there were
other ways of achieving sexual satisfaction
besides penetration. It ended with their orgasms.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-was-just-reading-amsterdam-guide.html
From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Wed Feb 22 10:09:14 2006
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Wed Feb 22 10:24:53 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hoaxes
Message-ID: <BAY103-F24A3F32F5EF383293E0603B4FD0@phx.gbl>

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From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Wed Feb 22 13:09:34 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
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From bev at beverlybremers.com  Wed Feb 22 13:20:11 2006
From: bev at beverlybremers.com (Beverly Bremers)
Date: Wed Feb 22 13:35:21 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
Message-ID: <20060222212011.6A924109980@ws6-4.us4.outblaze.com>

Cara - What a hoot! Loved it. I fit the profile to a T.

Bev

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Cara Robin"
  To: cgatthebeach@hotmail.com, cynthia@upstatehouse.com,
  Ohzone10@aol.com, SCrespi1@earthlink.net, munshcom@hotmail.com,
  bazasaba@aol.com, kidalley@yahoo.com, michael@michaelbutler.com,
  DLakritz@lbimedia.com, cschlanger@comcast.net, jglick6986@aol.com,
  epatzak@aon.at
  Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
  Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:39:48 -0800

  YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when...


  1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.


  2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.


  3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.


  4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.


  5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is
  that they don't have e-mail addresses.


  6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
  anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.


  7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the
  screen.


  8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have
  the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for
  panic and you turn around to go and get it.


  10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your
  coffee.


  11. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.


  12. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward
  this message.


  13. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.


  14. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on
  this list.


  AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

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From Ocsomtan at aol.com  Wed Feb 22 14:02:50 2006
From: Ocsomtan at aol.com (Ocsomtan@aol.com)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:17:55 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
Message-ID: <268.62af5d8.312e398a@aol.com>

In a message dated 2/22/2006 4:21:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bev@beverlybremers.com writes:


> Cara - What a hoot! Loved it. I fit the profile to a T.
> 
> Bev
> 
> Bev --

We all do!!!!
Priceless, Cara..

XX,
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From fotoblue at flash.net  Wed Feb 22 14:08:07 2006
From: fotoblue at flash.net (fotoblue@flash.net)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:23:11 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] La Mama Program still missing...
Message-ID: <380-2200623222287539@M2W094.mail2web.com>

Hi Nina Birdie,

 I am VERY sad that I never received the promised program from the La Mama
Reunion...
 I wonder what happend?

 Hugs
 Dagmar

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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb 22 14:08:52 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:24:01 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
References: <E1FBzsg-0007rQ-9j@smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <009201c637fc$90e104b0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

oh cara this is so funny
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cara Robin 
  To: cgatthebeach@hotmail.com ; cynthia@upstatehouse.com ; Ohzone10@aol.com ; SCrespi1@earthlink.net ; munshcom@hotmail.com ; bazasaba@aol.com ; kidalley@yahoo.com ; michael@michaelbutler.com ; DLakritz@lbimedia.com ; cschlanger@comcast.net ; jglick6986@aol.com ; epatzak@aon.at 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:39 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...


  YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when... 


  1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 


  2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.


  3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.


  4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.


  5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.


  6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. 


  7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.


  8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it. 


  10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee. 


  11. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.


  12. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.


  13. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.


  14. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list. 


  AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself. 



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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb 22 14:10:05 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:25:06 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
References: <E1FBzsg-0007rQ-9j@smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <00a301c637fc$bc342ca0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

that is great cara
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cara Robin 
  To: cgatthebeach@hotmail.com ; cynthia@upstatehouse.com ; Ohzone10@aol.com ; SCrespi1@earthlink.net ; munshcom@hotmail.com ; bazasaba@aol.com ; kidalley@yahoo.com ; michael@michaelbutler.com ; DLakritz@lbimedia.com ; cschlanger@comcast.net ; jglick6986@aol.com ; epatzak@aon.at 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:39 PM
  Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...


  YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when... 


  1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 


  2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.


  3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.


  4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.


  5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.


  6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. 


  7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.


  8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it. 


  10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee. 


  11. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.


  12. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.


  13. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.


  14. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list. 


  AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself. 



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From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Wed Feb 22 14:13:16 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:28:25 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] three cheers for cara for giving everyone a laugh
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From fotoblue at flash.net  Wed Feb 22 14:24:36 2006
From: fotoblue at flash.net (fotoblue@flash.net)
Date: Wed Feb 22 14:38:33 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hoaxes
Message-ID: <380-220062322222436531@M2W130.mail2web.com>

This is exactly how pyramid schemes work...

the best is NEVER to forward a message. 
if in doubt, go first to check the various urban legends sites!  
weepy stories and "too good to be true" stories are easy to spot as hoaxes, 
some are a bit more tricky.
After a while - and reading  reports on the urban legends sites!! -  
you have red  flags popping up and bells going off immediately, 
when you receive one of those messages.

A dead giveaway: veiled threats that something terrible will happen,  
if you don't send the message to at least 10 people immediately.
This includes prayers to saints etc!!
My advice: ignore and toss into the trash! 

For a while I have replied with this sentence to the most annoying of those
chain letters:
>>Here's my good luck prayer for you:
 May the fleas from a thousand camels infest your crotch 
and may your arms be too short to scratch.>>

yes, it's nasty, but effective. I am getting  far fewer messages now.

;-)

Dagmar

PS do feel free to answer this one!

xxooxx


Original Message:
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From: Cara Robin cararobindesign@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:09:14 -0800
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, mb-civic@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hoaxes


<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE><FONT style="FONT-SIZE:
11px; FONT-
FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif">
<P><BR>Since list members occasionally send on hoaxes (and I'm certain more
often receive 
them!), this should be of interest, from the Hoaxbusters
site:<BR><BR><STRONG>Probably the 
biggest risk for hoax messages is their ability to multiply. Most people
send on the hoax messages 
to everyone in their address books, but consider if they only sent them on
to 10 people. The first 
person (the first generation) sends it to 10, each member of that group of
10 (the second generation) 
sends it to 10 others or 100 messages and so on.<BR><BR>Generation: 1 2 3 4
5 6<BR>Number of 
Messages 10 100 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000 [this was in chart
form]<BR><BR>As you can 
see, by the sixth generation there are a million e-mail messages being
processed by our mail 
servers. The capacity to handle these messages must be paid for by the
users or, if it is not paid for, 
the mail servers slow down to a crawl 
or crash. Note that this example only forwards the message to 10 people at
each generation while 
people who forward real hoax messages often send them to many times that
number.<BR><BR>
Recently, we have been hearing of spammers (bulk mailers of unsolicited
mail) harvesting e-mail 
addresses from hoaxes and chain letters. After a few generations, many of
these letters contain 
hundreds of good addresses, which is just what the spammers want. We have
also heard rumors 
that spammers are deliberately starting hoaxes and chain letters to gather
e-mail addresses (of 
course, that could be a hoax).??So now, all those nice people who were so
worried about the poor 
little girl dying of cancer find themselves not only laughed at for passing
on a hoax but also the 
recipients of tons of spam mail.</STRONG></P>
<P>Thanks, ?Cara<BR><BR><BR></P></FONT></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr> <a
href="http://
g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2737??PS=47575" target="_top">Planning a trip for Spring
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From dauber at banana-and-louie.org  Wed Feb 22 15:45:42 2006
From: dauber at banana-and-louie.org (Sean Courtney)
Date: Wed Feb 22 16:00:55 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 WHEN...
In-Reply-To: <00a301c637fc$bc342ca0$f1476c42@hotprojects>
References: <E1FBzsg-0007rQ-9j@smtpauth02.mail.atl.earthlink.net>
	<00a301c637fc$bc342ca0$f1476c42@hotprojects>
Message-ID: <20060222154542.32pn9u6pr5csko88@208.179.130.20>

>  YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2006 when...

Hmm...could've sworn this was on the list before; then again, my mind 
is crazy!

But there's one thing missing that was actually the subject of a short 
comic routine by The Frantics [paraphrased; going by memory]:

1974:
"Who-o-o-a...this is good shit, man! This is REALLY good shit!"

2004:
"Whoa...that was a good shit...that was a REALLY good shit!"

-- 
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Date: Wed Feb 22 17:07:14 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] any thoughts?
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Thu Feb 23 00:16:42 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Thu Feb 23 00:31:48 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] Bill Rice Tribute, Next Monday, at La Mama
Message-ID: <482-43FD6F6A-1720@storefull-3271.bay.webtv.net>


'Don't know if any of you knew the fella...

"For Bill"
The Club at La Mama
February 27, 2006
Monday at 8:00pm
Tickets $10
Box office 212.475.7710
www.lamama.org

An evening of music and performance dedicated to Bill Rice

Hosted by Nicky Paraiso & Ron Jones

featuring
Charles Allcroft
Jim Andralis & Larry Kane
Deborah Auer
Neal Kirkwood & Harry Mann
Little Annie
Rebecca Moore
Roy Nathanson
Jim Neu & Black-Eyed Susan
Terrell Robinson
Clio Young
with
special guests to be announced
?


From michael at intrafi.com  Thu Feb 23 10:54:04 2006
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Thu Feb 23 11:09:50 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com: No Justice, No Peace
Message-ID: <20060223185404.82E7D3AE5C6@lax-gw06.mroute.net>

This page was sent to you by: michael@intrafi.com.

OPINION | February 23, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist: No Justice, No Peace
By BOB HERBERT
The program known as extraordinary rendition is one more example of the way the United States has locked its ideals away in a drawer somewhere.
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From michaeldavidarian at yahoo.com  Thu Feb 23 11:12:31 2006
From: michaeldavidarian at yahoo.com (Michael Arian)
Date: Thu Feb 23 11:27:42 2006
Subject: [Mb-hair] La Mama Program still missing...
In-Reply-To: <380-2200623222287539@M2W094.mail2web.com>
Message-ID: <20060223191231.80942.qmail@web50306.mail.yahoo.com>

Dagmar-There were too few made.Nina should be able to help or maybe someone can photocopy
one for you.I didn't get one either.Hope you are well and in any case I am in joyous
contact with Rosemarie and loving it.All the best.XOXOX M

--- "fotoblue@flash.net" <fotoblue@flash.net> wrote:

> Hi Nina Birdie,
> 
>  I am VERY sad that I never received the promised program from the La Mama
> Reunion...
>  I wonder what happend?
> 
>  Hugs
>  Dagmar
> 
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From fotoblue at flash.net  Sat Feb 25 14:14:48 2006
From: fotoblue at flash.net (fotoblue at flash.net)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:14:48 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Alternet: President Jonah
Message-ID: <380-220062625221448223@M2W079.mail2web.com>

Hi Natalie,

 how are you?
I just finally got back to  this message. 
was there a link? I could not find Gore Vidal - President Jonah on Alternet

Spring is coming to Arizona, the bobcats and roadrunners are getting
amorous!!

 Love and hugs
 Dagmar

Original Message:
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From:  Ocsomtan at aol.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:51:00 EST
To: mb-hair at islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Alternet: President Jonah


God, I do love Gore Vidal! -- Please -- everyone take the time to read this 
piece.

XX,
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Feb 25 11:12:10 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:12:10 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] William Swiggard sent To Civic
Message-ID: <C025EC0A.29704%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Message: 4
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 07:40:39 -0500
From: William Swiggard <swiggard at comcast.net>
Subject: [Mb-civic] MUST READ: "They Are a Force for Good:" Have You
    Read Your QDR? - Paul Street - ZNet Commentary
To: mb-civic <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
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   "They Are a Force for Good:" Have You Read Your QDR?

By Paul Street

My fellow Americans, have you read your QDR?

"My QD what?" you say.

I am referring to the Pentagon's recently released Quadrennial Defense
Review Report (QDR). It's a 92-page document in which the United States
(U.S.) Department of "Defense's" (DOD's) "senior leadership sets out,"
in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's words, "where the DOD
currently is and the direction we believe it needs to go in fulfilling
our responsibilities to the American people" (you can read it online at
qdy/qdr2006.pdf).

It's not a riveting read, but you might want to give it a look. After
all, something like half of your federal tax dollars go to sustaining
the federal "defense" budget. That budget accounts for nearly half the
world's military spending and pays for more than 700 U.S. military bases
located in nearly every country on the planet.

The "Defense" Department's invasion of Iraq has cost many hundreds of
billions of dollars so far, an enormous sum that combines with overall
military spending to significantly disable our federal government's
ability to meet basic social needs within the significantly
poverty-stricken U.S.

Sounds a little more like "offense" (or what Pentagon planners and
"defense" contractors like to call "forward global force projection")
than "defense," but Or-, I mean oh, well.

Reading the QDR with a skeptical and yes George Orwell-inspired eye can
give you some new insight into why "rogue state America" is broadly
feared and loathed outside its borders.

Listen to the QDR's stark opening paragraph, replete with shrill
Rumsfeldian hyperbole:

"The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war. Since
the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has fought a global war
against violent extremists who use terrorism as their weapon of choice,
and who seek to destroy our free way of life. Our enemies seek weapons
of mass destruction and, if they are successful, will likely attempt to
use them in their conflict with free people everywhere. Currently, the
struggle is centered in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we will need to be
prepared and arranged to successfully defend our Nation and its
interests around the globe for many years to come."

The authoritarian hypocrisy and related lack of clear definition of
terms in this passage are remarkable.

Technically speaking, terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation
to achieve political objectives. And nobody has practiced it on a larger
and more murderous scale than the U.S. since (and for that matter
before) 9/11.

A conservative British medical- and social-scientific study published
nearly in October 2004 estimated that 100,000 Iraqis were killed by the
American and British invasion and occupation of their country between
March 19, 2003 (the first day of "Operation Iraqi Freedom") and the
middle of September, 2004 (see BBC News, "Iraq Death Toll Soared Post
War," 29 October, 2004, available online at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3962969.stm).

"Liberated" Iraq's post-invasion body count is certainly much higher
today. It has been accumulated through large-scale deployment of
"weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) and "violent extremist" methods by
the most lethal military force known to human history: the United States
Armed Forces. The WMDs "of [U.S.] choice" include Blackhawk Helicopters,
A-10 Warthogs, B-2 Stealth Bombers, unmanned aerial drones, depleted
uranium, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, M-16s, F-14s, napalm, and
phosphorous.

Here are some of the the "violent extremist" methods employed in
America's state-terrorist "war on terror:" attacking hospitals, leveling
resistance-friendly (hence "terrorist") cities, bombing civilians (whose
consequent deaths and maiming are written off as unintentional
"collateral damage" - a "price worth paying" for the advance of
America's inherently noble objectives), and torturing innocent civilians
in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram Air Force Base, and Guantanamo Bay.

It's probably for some good reasons that the QDR gives no precise
meaning to the phrases "free people" and "our free way of life." There's
not a lot of "free people" living under the Saudi Arabian state, the
arch-repressive tyranny with whom American policymakers have long
maintained a crucial alliance based on U.S. control over much of the
kingdom's oil wealth. Another U.S. ally in the supposed conflict between
the American-led forces of "freedom" and the evil forces of "terrorism"
includes Uzbekistan, where regime opponents are sometimes boiled alive.

There are real questions, moreover, about the extent of human freedom
within the openly corporate-plutocratic U.S. The "best democracy that
money can [and did] buy" is home to the most unequal distribution of
wealth and longest working hours in the industrialized world. It
possesses the highest incarceration rate on earth. Alone among
industrialized nations, it lacks a socially inclusive national health
insurance program - this despite clear majority support for such a
system among the American populace.

The majority of the American citizenry is so impressed by the grassroots
vibrancy of the nation's corporate-crafted "dollar democracy" that it
refuses to participate in the nation's "free" elections. A shockingly
authoritarian U.S. state pursues hard-right policy agendas that are
opposed by most "free people" within a sullen, depressed, and purposely
depoliticized American ex-citizenry (see Jacob S. Hacker and Paul
Pierson, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of
Democracy [Yale, 2005]).

How exactly has the provocative and monumentally illegal and immoral
assault on Iraq - the centerpiece of Rumsfeld et al.'s so-called "long
war on terror" - "defend[ed] our Nation and its interests around the
globe?"

There are numerous reasons to think that this vast terrorist operation
has endangered the security, status and well-being of Americans at home
and abroad.

And what precisely are "our [curiously capitalized] Nation's interests
around the globe"? On pages 21 and 24 of the QDR, Rumsfeld and Co.
denounce Islamic "terrorists" for "opposing globalization and the
freedom it brings." They cite "globalization's " "positive" aspects:
"the free movement of capital, goods, services, information, people, and
technology."

As should be obvious to anyone remotely familiar with the American class
structure and the specifically corporate-capitalist form of
"globalization" (globalization under the command of corporate capital)
that has provoked so much protest in recent decades, however, such "free
movement" is hardly in the self-evidently shared interest of all "free
people" inside the American "Nation. " Many working-class Americans are
significantly victimized by hyper-mobile capital, commodity, labor, and
technology flows that create enormous profits for fantastically wealthy
"elites" within and beyond "the Nation."

At the same time, the costs and benefits of the military empire that
exists precisely to expand and defend corporate globalization are not
distributed in an equal fashion across "the Nation." The costs of empire
are externalized and spread across the entire society. The benefits fall
disproportionately to a privileged minority.

Contrary to Rumsfeld and Co.'s proto-fascistic determination to submerge
internal socioeconomic differences under the falsely solidaristic banner
of the blood-and-soil Nation State, neither "globalization" nor its
partner Empire are class-neutral expressions of a common "National
interest."

The rising number of dead Pashtuns and Arabs "sacrificed" for Empire
during the last four-and-a-half years offer ghostly backdrop for
Rumsfeld and Co.'s QDR claim that "much has been accomplished since that
tragic day: September 11, 2001" (QDR, p.v). There have been many "tragic
days" in Southwest Asia since 9/11, thanks to a U.S. assault that has
created casualty tolls that make the jetliner attacks seem minor by
comparison.

How comforting it must be to the people of that region to know that the
Pentagon is "placing emphasis on the ability [of Rogue State America] to
surge quickly to trouble spots across the globe" in a noble U.S.
commitment to "shaping the future" (QDR, p.v) along the (undefined)
principle of "freedom."

And how reassuring it must to be proud Americans to know that Rummy et
al. will not let "enemy non-state actors" use "irregular warfare -
including terrorism, insurgency, or guerilla warfare - in an attempt to
break our will through protracted conflict" (QDR, p.19). To "break our
will," that is, to follow through on a monumentally illegal and brazenly
imperialist occupation that has been clearly carried out to deepen U.S.
control over Middle Eastern oil. To "break our will" to impose empire on
people trying to defend their nation and achieve independence through
the same methods ("irregular warfare - including terrorism, insurgency,
or guerilla warfare" in "a protracted conflict") those "terrorist
non-state actors" the American revolutionaries deployed against the
British Empire between 1775 and 1783!

One of my favorite parts in the QDR comes on page 28, where Rumsfeld and
Co. talk about "the threat of Islamist terrorist extremism" in Central
Asia. "The energy resources of the region," the QDR explains, "offer
both and opportunity for economic development, as well as a danger that
outside powers may seek to gain influence over those resources."

"Good heavens," as Rummy might say, but wouldn't it be terrible if
"outside powers" tried to "gain influence" over Asian "energy resources?"

As anyone with a moderately informed mind knows, the final clause of
that last quoted sentence from the QDR offers an excellent description
of the Bush administration's motivation in occupying Mesopotamia. This
is perfectly obvious to even the mildly attentive follower of modern and
current history, no matter how many times Bush and the Pentagon prattle
about their desire to "liberate the Iraqi people" (see the QDR, p. 10
for two such statements).

Another richly hypocritical QDR moment comes when Rumsfeld and his team
rip Iran's "pursuit of weapons of mass destruction" for being "a
destabilizing factor in the region" (QDR, p. 28).

Anybody interested in "destabilizing" forces in the Middle East might
want to examine the provocative mass deployment of WMD by Uncle Sam in
the illegal occupation of Iraq, a lethal operation that has made it
clear to Iran's leaders that they would be crazy not to try to develop
nuclear weapons.

As predicted even by numerous conservative U.S. observers (George Bush
Senior's National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, for one), the U.S.
invasion has helped enflame the region, fueling a serious escalation of
Middle Eastern violence, political instability, and terrorism.

But my favorite part comes on page 9, where Donny Pentagon and his
writers remind us that world history's greatest institutionalized global
killing machine is both a trusty guarantor of "the Nation's interest and
values" and a marvelous instrument of human benevolence:

"On any given day, nearly 350,000 men and women of the U.S. armed Forces
are deployed or stationed in approximately 130 countries. They are
battle-hardened from operations over the past four years, fighting the
enemies of freedom as part of this long war. They maintain the Nation's
treaty obligations and international commitments. They protect and
advance U.S. interests and values. They are often asked to be protectors
of peace and providers of relief. They are a force for good."

Remember that, fellow Americans, the next time you hear some ungrateful
Iraqi complaining because a freedom-loving F-14 just wiped out his
family or because his son or daughter was tortured in a
liberty-advancing U.S. prison.

Remember it also the next time you hear some bleeding heart,
tofu-munching, and latte-sipping ACLU-socialist- type bemoaning the fact
that millions are going hungry and hopeless within the U.S. while Uncle
Sam pours trillions of your tax dollars into what the QDR calls "modern
warfighting."

Do not let your patriotic guard down. Get behind your Nation's
freedom-fighters and never forget that all those imperial weapons,
troops, and prisons you are paying for are "A FORCE FOR GOOD."

Repeat that phrase enough times to yourself and you'll start to believe
it in your heart and soul....just like the thought-controlled masses in
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, living under the magical spell of "Big
Brother," who told them that:

War is Peace

Ignorance is Strength

Love is Hate

Freedom is Slavery

The "long war," a phrase that recurs numerous times in the QDR, is also
all-too like something out of Orwell. It's the modern imperial U.S.
version of the "permanent war" that Big Brother's totalitarian state
Oceania proclaimed in order to justify endless military production and
related societal repression.

Paul Street (pstreet at niu.edu) is a Visiting Professor of American
History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Empire and
Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers, 2004), and Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the
Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005).

http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2006-02/25street.cfm


From venuetheatre at juno.com  Sun Feb 26 18:46:22 2006
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (venuetheatre at juno.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:46:22 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Darren McGavin
Message-ID: <20060226.214633.1824.0.venuetheatre@juno.com>

February 26, 2006
It was November, 1968, when I found myself in Los Angeles after a US Tour
of the National Theatre of the Deaf. Being my first time away from
Western New York, I was seduced by the warm weather, the palm trees, and
the "feel" of Southern California just before Thanksgiving.
Despite the advise of my mentor, who offered me a job on a little film
shooting in Connecticut where he was working with some director named
Arthur Penn (the film was "Alice?s Restaurant"), I stayed in LA,
auditioning for theatre and films, not really knowing what I was doing. I
auditioned for the Journeyman Program at the Mark Taper Forum, and was
told I needed more "experience," something they told young actresses with
little training but the guts to try. The Director, however, was very nice
to me, and suggested that I go to the Aquarius Theatre and try out for
that play. "It?s about Hippies," he said, "and you know they are always
dropping out." I laughed, he smiled and said he knew someone there and
made a phone call for me. "Can you answer phones," he asked? "Oh yes," I
replied.
That afternoon I found myself at the Aquarius Theatre answering phones
for someone who was sick. "Kragen, Smothers and Fritz," I learned rather
quickly, were the producers of "HAiR," a show a friend in NYC had told me
to see, but I was always too busy. I saw the show for the first time that
night, and every night thereafter for a week and a half. I got to meet
the actors, Gerry and Jim, Ben Vereen, Kay Cole, Randy Brooks, Susan
Morse, Jimmy Carozza, Carole Miller, and of course Barbara Moore at the
snack bar.... What a joy, what a family.
Danny in the office became a kind of mentor to me there, taking me under
his wing and showing me how to make the press book; he was the PR guy
upstairs. He made sure I had a job. I was very grateful. I had a Honda
scooter and had a little apartment down in Korea Town (not the nicest
part of town but it was clean.)
Opening night came, and Danny told me to just go into the press booth and
watch the show from there. I was excited and dressed up in my very best
hippie attire: Wide velour pants, a vest and a ton of beads, little
braids in my hair. One of the kids said he would get me into the party. 
I was waiting quietly there, when the door opened and this very handsome
man came in. "Oh," he said, sort of surprised. "I didn't think anyone
would be in here." 
"I was told I could watch the show from here," I said. "OK by me," he
replied. "I was just looking for a place away from the madness down
there, where I could smoke," as he lit up a joint. 
At that point I had not had that many encounters with pot, and choked
when I smoked. But he was really nice and we talked while he smoked. He
asked if I knew who he was, and I said I was sorry but I did not, "but I
guess you must be somebody, right?" I said. "Yes," he replied with a
smile and a laugh. I was pretty embarrassed. A few moments later the door
opened again and it was a guard saying that we could not be in the press
booth, that it was off limits.
As we went toward the stairs, he asked if I had a ticket. I said "No,"
and he said that he had an extra and that I should come sit with him.
Turned out those seats were in the front row and I was in Heaven. Later,
I didn't have to wait for the cast, I went to the Party on his arm. When
someone from the press asked who I was, I stupidly laughed and said "No
one!" I must have been on a contact high. I still did not know who my
benefactor was.
That night, he introduced me to Bertrand Castelli, and asked him if they
were auditioning. He had heard me singing during the show and told
Bertrand that I had a good voice. The next day I auditioned for Bertrand,
and was hired to go to Mexico.
Anyway, that is how I first met Darren McGavin. He was so handsome and I
remember him fondly. I am so sad to hear of his passing.  He was a good
friend, a good actor, and a friend of HAiR.
Corinne


** Venue Theatre Collective and  Actors Studio  is a not for profit
501(c)(3) Corporation, founded in 1992.
ALL MAIL TO THE OFFICE:  5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710.
THE STUDIO is in MAINLANDS PLAZA, 9125 US 19 N, Pinellas Park (at
Mainlands Blvd.) 1 mi N of Gandy/Park Blvd.  727-822-6194  cell 
727-656-8525
Visit our web site at www.VenueActorStudio.org

From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Sun Feb 26 19:06:51 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:06:51 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] Darren McGavin
References: <20060226.214633.1824.0.venuetheatre@juno.com>
Message-ID: <000801c63b4a$dc3223d0$f1476c42@hotprojects>

i used to love the night stalker movies
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <venuetheatre at juno.com>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>; <michael at michaelbutler.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Darren McGavin


February 26, 2006
It was November, 1968, when I found myself in Los Angeles after a US Tour
of the National Theatre of the Deaf. Being my first time away from
Western New York, I was seduced by the warm weather, the palm trees, and
the "feel" of Southern California just before Thanksgiving.
Despite the advise of my mentor, who offered me a job on a little film
shooting in Connecticut where he was working with some director named
Arthur Penn (the film was "Alice's Restaurant"), I stayed in LA,
auditioning for theatre and films, not really knowing what I was doing. I
auditioned for the Journeyman Program at the Mark Taper Forum, and was
told I needed more "experience," something they told young actresses with
little training but the guts to try. The Director, however, was very nice
to me, and suggested that I go to the Aquarius Theatre and try out for
that play. "It's about Hippies," he said, "and you know they are always
dropping out." I laughed, he smiled and said he knew someone there and
made a phone call for me. "Can you answer phones," he asked? "Oh yes," I
replied.
That afternoon I found myself at the Aquarius Theatre answering phones
for someone who was sick. "Kragen, Smothers and Fritz," I learned rather
quickly, were the producers of "HAiR," a show a friend in NYC had told me
to see, but I was always too busy. I saw the show for the first time that
night, and every night thereafter for a week and a half. I got to meet
the actors, Gerry and Jim, Ben Vereen, Kay Cole, Randy Brooks, Susan
Morse, Jimmy Carozza, Carole Miller, and of course Barbara Moore at the
snack bar.... What a joy, what a family.
Danny in the office became a kind of mentor to me there, taking me under
his wing and showing me how to make the press book; he was the PR guy
upstairs. He made sure I had a job. I was very grateful. I had a Honda
scooter and had a little apartment down in Korea Town (not the nicest
part of town but it was clean.)
Opening night came, and Danny told me to just go into the press booth and
watch the show from there. I was excited and dressed up in my very best
hippie attire: Wide velour pants, a vest and a ton of beads, little
braids in my hair. One of the kids said he would get me into the party. 
I was waiting quietly there, when the door opened and this very handsome
man came in. "Oh," he said, sort of surprised. "I didn't think anyone
would be in here." 
"I was told I could watch the show from here," I said. "OK by me," he
replied. "I was just looking for a place away from the madness down
there, where I could smoke," as he lit up a joint. 
At that point I had not had that many encounters with pot, and choked
when I smoked. But he was really nice and we talked while he smoked. He
asked if I knew who he was, and I said I was sorry but I did not, "but I
guess you must be somebody, right?" I said. "Yes," he replied with a
smile and a laugh. I was pretty embarrassed. A few moments later the door
opened again and it was a guard saying that we could not be in the press
booth, that it was off limits.
As we went toward the stairs, he asked if I had a ticket. I said "No,"
and he said that he had an extra and that I should come sit with him.
Turned out those seats were in the front row and I was in Heaven. Later,
I didn't have to wait for the cast, I went to the Party on his arm. When
someone from the press asked who I was, I stupidly laughed and said "No
one!" I must have been on a contact high. I still did not know who my
benefactor was.
That night, he introduced me to Bertrand Castelli, and asked him if they
were auditioning. He had heard me singing during the show and told
Bertrand that I had a good voice. The next day I auditioned for Bertrand,
and was hired to go to Mexico.
Anyway, that is how I first met Darren McGavin. He was so handsome and I
remember him fondly. I am so sad to hear of his passing.  He was a good
friend, a good actor, and a friend of HAiR.
Corinne


** Venue Theatre Collective and  Actors Studio  is a not for profit
501(c)(3) Corporation, founded in 1992.
ALL MAIL TO THE OFFICE:  5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710.
THE STUDIO is in MAINLANDS PLAZA, 9125 US 19 N, Pinellas Park (at
Mainlands Blvd.) 1 mi N of Gandy/Park Blvd.  727-822-6194  cell 
727-656-8525
Visit our web site at www.VenueActorStudio.org
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Feb 26 18:09:50 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:09:50 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] View of Arab World by An Arab
Message-ID: <C0279F70.29792%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Reza sent this, pretty interesting.
Michael

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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Mon Feb 27 13:40:35 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:40:35 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] McGavin...
In-Reply-To: mb-hair-request@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 27 Feb 2006
	12:00:02 -0800
Message-ID: <16777-440371D3-8587@storefull-3275.bay.webtv.net>


What's partoicularly neat about that story, is that Daren McGavin would
have been forty-six at the tme!

An amazing career, from MIKE HAMMER in the '50s; to one of Sinatra's
best movies, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM; the Dad in Jean Separd's A
CHRISTMAS STORY; with Redford in THE NATURAL...

What's often overlooked is 1970's TRIBES, one of the first memorable TV
movies, where McGavin played a drill sergeant to Jan Michael Vincent....

One of the only mainstream efforts, for years, to deal, if even
obliquely, with Vietnam...

Jim Burns


From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Feb 27 14:00:31 2006
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:00:31 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] From Benjamin with Thanks
Message-ID: <C028B67F.2980E%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Their Own Self
Consultations With Padre Kino
Regarding Dwarves

February 23, 2006

I have decided to become a drunk and live under a bench, maybe in a
radiation suit. It only makes sense. The times are dire. Dark shapes twist
in the international fog. The US, in the hands of puzzled children of low
moral character, flaps about like a damp rag in a high wind.
Anything could happen.
I figure to enjoy it since I can't stop it. It would all seem more amusing
and less dark, I thought, if I weren't immoderately sober. To this end I
walked to the Oxxo, which is a Mexican Seven-Eleven, and bought a bottle of
Padre Kino red. 

Maybe I should have bought two bottles.

There is much to cause worry. The strange little man in the White House is
leering at Iran in his customary state of martial priapism. Not good.
(Wild thought: Someone ought to give Iran nuclear weapons, so he won't
attack it.) Anyway, wee Bush, not having enough army for his current wars,
wants to start a bigger and shinier one.

Somebody explain it to me. I have limited geostrategic grasp. Perhaps he
believes that by spreading unwinnability over several wars, he will reduce
it in each. Victory through distributed defeat.
I keep reading that Herr Bush may use "bunker buster" nukes in Iran. To the
inordinately dim, this has a comforting sound. You know, a little
itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, perhaps yellow polka-dot nukelet goes way down in
the earth and, fooomp! blows up the evil bunker, hardly rattling the windows
above. Actually an earth-penetrator doesn't penetrate beyond a few feet, all
of which turn into fallout.

The Padre Kino isn't working. None of this makes any sense, even after half
a bottle. I may have to go IV. The president's virtuous plan to spread
democracy like bird flu goes apace. Ain't nobody heah ceptin' us
missionaries. The rascal is imposing democracy right and left, though mostly
left as it turns out.
It is working. Well, it is having an effect. In Venezuela democracy brought
about Hugo Chavez, who hates the United States. In Bolivia it produced Evo
Morales, who hates the United States. In Iran it empowered
Ahmawhatsispelling, who hates the United States. So does the elected
government in Iraq. In Palestine Mr. Bush's righteousness elected Hamas,
which hates the United States, perhaps as much as does the Muslim
Brotherhood, which keeps getting more elected in Egypt.

There's nothing like democracy, I say. There's nothing like brains either,
but they seem to be in short supply. I mean, if you force elections in
countries where everybody hates you, after doing things that make sure that
everyone hates you.?

I think I'll call Oxxo and tell them to put another bottle on hold.
Maybe they have a layaway plan.
See, this whole mess is a splendid contest between a Titan and a pygmy, the
pygmy being very well armed and the Titan being very smart. High drama and
all. Made for television. The pygmy used New York as a pretext to conquer
the Middle East and get the oil. Bin Laden used New York to sucker the pygmy
into a losing war that would leave the United States defanged and broken.
One of them has guessed wrong. We'll know which before long.

I still don't get it. Maybe psilocybin would help. It doesn't make you
understand anything, but makes everything else equally confusing so that
nothing stands out. These days, it's the best you can hope for.
What jolly things are the rest of the presidential children doing? The vice
president has shot someone while duck hunting, and apparently while drunk.
Only wounded him, though. I grew up in a country where fifteen-year-old boys
regularly hunted. Nobody ever shot anybody. I am not sure that a clown who
cannot be trusted with hunting arms really ought to exert influence over
intercontinental missiles. The only consolation is that he would be likely
to miss. 

Next I see that Mr. Rumsfeld, the secretary of alleged defense, has said
"We've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He's a person who
was elected legally, just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally, and then
consolidated power, and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro
and Mr. Morales and others. It concerns me."

Mr. Rumsfeld concerns me. The assertion that Hitler is working with Castro
and Evo Morales does have its appeal. It implies that Adolf really did take
an immortality drug and move to Argentina. Is this something NSA hasn't told
us? Maybe Mr. Rumsfeld wasn't paying attention during grade-school English
classes. Hitler of course was never elected legally but appointed Chancellor
by Hindenburg in 1933, never having gotten more than 37% of the vote. I knew
this in high school. Why doesn't the Secretary of Defense? Reassuring, that.
Pig ignorant and pugnacious.

I note that Mr. Bush was elected legally, unless of course he wasn't, and
consolidates power. Fast. I do not think that he will work with Castro and
Morales, though. He couldn't remember them long enough.
And of course there is Kind Of Leezer Rice, the Secretary of State.
Being non-male and non-white, she is slightly more sacred than God, if only
in that she is allowed on federal property.

She is said to "speak Russian fluently." Is there any evidence that she
speaks it at all? Where are the publications to document her purportedly
coruscating intelligence? Bookfinder.com produces only The Soviet Union &
the Czechoslovak Army 1948-1983, noted for its poor grasp of historical
fact. 

I asked an academic friend about this, and he responded, "I checked a couple
of computer databases for scholarly articles by Dr. Rice and couldn't find
any. My suspicions were further aroused by the fact that of all the adoring
articles I found about Dr. Rice (including her official curriculum vitae on
the White House web site), none listed any scholarly publications apart from
the aforementioned book." Oh.

The world is reeling slightly. Doubtless a gravitational anomaly. What if
Bush doesn't leave when his term ends? He would say he had to remain to
protect us from terror. The nation abounds in fools, as Australia does in
rabbits. Who would do anything about a coup-or, pardon me, "emergency
measure"? And what?

Who's in charge of this choo-choo train? A witless draft-dodger, an inept
duck-hunter, an historical illiterate, and an overrated twofer.
I'm going to hide.

The great fallacy of childhood is the belief that grownups must know what
they are doing. There is no evidence for this in the historical record. You
would do better by grabbing a government at random from the denizens of a
rural high school. Democracy brings us twerps, psychopaths, ambitious
ciphers, short men, and well-born drones. They are what they are. They can't
change any more than a leper can change his spots. I need some really strong
drugs or someone to hit me on the head with a rubber mallet. Opium is the
religion of the masses.
            Let us pray.

                                                      Fred Reed


From dncnbear7 at yahoo.com  Mon Feb 27 08:35:51 2006
From: dncnbear7 at yahoo.com (Mark Lichtenberger)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:35:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd: Fw: this is great- check it out
Message-ID: <E1FDr1w-0003HZ-RG@elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

I got this from a friend last night, please take a moment to watch, wombat's
seem to be very intelligent creatures...

Peace,
Mark


> Foundation for  Global Community - The Wombat
> 

> http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml



Mark Lichtenberger
dncnbear7 at yahoo.com
"Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight
Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright
Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light"
                                            Dan Fogelberg

From rrreutebb at mac.com  Mon Feb 27 15:11:50 2006
From: rrreutebb at mac.com (rrreutebb at mac.com)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:11:50 -0600
Subject: [Mb-hair] (no subject)
Message-ID: <E1FDsIo-00077E-3s@elasmtp-junco.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf
!! oh yes:
Love & Light, Reute


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From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:38:45 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] photoblue flash is dagmar?
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From jameshburns at webtv.net  Tue Feb 28 11:07:40 2006
From: jameshburns at webtv.net (Jim Burns)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:07:40 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOM AND JERRY--A Jewish Conspracy?
In-Reply-To: mb-hair-request@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 27 Feb 2006
	12:00:02 -0800
Message-ID: <20244-44049F7C-9902@storefull-3274.bay.webtv.net>


It seems even the racists in Iran, have too much time, on their hands... 

http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1049 

('Wonder if they know William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, were
gentiles...) 

I'd do one of my smiley face emoticons, but this is just too pathetic. 

Jim Burns 


From jpzuehlke at prodigy.net  Tue Feb 28 16:49:43 2006
From: jpzuehlke at prodigy.net (John Zuehlke)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:49:43 -0800
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR at Glendale Community College
Message-ID: <003401c63cca$0cb6ba40$63cce804@0019448444>

Here is some additional skinny on the upcoming (March, 2006) production of
HAiR at Glendale Community College. It will be mounted in their mid-sized
(approximately 350-seat) auditorium, and will feature a live band. This
production looks like a winner!

SHOW DATES:

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:00pm
Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 8:00pm
Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 2:00pm

Friday, March 17, 2006 - 8:00pm
Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 8:00pm
Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 2:00pm

Friday, March 24, 2006 - 8:00pm
Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 8:00pm
Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 2:00pm


TICKET PRICES:
$15.00 General Admission
$12.00 Students and Seniors (55+)
$ 8.00 Children (12 and under)
Parental Caution: Language and drug use
$ 8.00 for groups of 10 or more

The Box Office opens about one hour before the start of the performance, and
tickets may be purchased there with cash or check --- NO CREDIT CARDS.


RESERVATION LINE: (818) 240-1000 Extension 5618
(Pay for the tickets at the door.)



ADDRESS and PARKING:
1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, California 91208


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Fri Feb 24 11:55:10 2006
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:55:10 -0000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.3.1141175231.3388.mb-hair@islandlists.com>

West. Turn right (heading North) onto Verdugo Road, then right into the
campus Circle Drive. (NOTE: Verdugo Road has a median strip, which prevents
left turns into the campus from the southbound direction.) Park in Lot "I"
immediately West of the auditorium. (NOTE: The lot is marked with Parking
Only By Permit signs, but it will be open for the performances.)  There also
is parking on the West side of Verdugo Road, with a footbridge provided for
crossing over to the campus.


FOR MORE INFORMATION and PRODUCTION PICTURES: Go to the Theatre Arts web
page: glendale.edu/theatre. A campus map is available at:
www.glendale.edu/maps/index.htm

+++++++++++++++

Nina:  Permission to re-post any or all of the above hereby granted.

+++++++++++++++

Hebe and I hope to have a group of about 10 together for opening night, and
we very probably will attend multiple times.  If other members of the
cybertribe are interested, it would be lovely to get together!

I can't believe it: THREE, count 'em, THREE productions of HAiR in our
vicinity in as many months!  It's either famine or feast!  Looks like the
Groovy Revolution is spreading.



Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!

John



From hotprojects at nyc.rr.com  Tue Feb 28 21:01:09 2006
From: hotprojects at nyc.rr.com (richard haase)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:01:09 -0500
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR at Glendale Community College
References: <003401c63cca$0cb6ba40$63cce804@0019448444>
Message-ID: <010301c63ced$281f1840$f1476c42@hotprojects>

most productions of hair are winners john
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Zuehlke" <jpzuehlke at prodigy.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAiR at Glendale Community College


> Here is some additional skinny on the upcoming (March, 2006) production of
> HAiR at Glendale Community College. It will be mounted in their mid-sized
> (approximately 350-seat) auditorium, and will feature a live band. This
> production looks like a winner!
>
> SHOW DATES:
>
> Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 2:00pm
>
> Friday, March 17, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 2:00pm
>
> Friday, March 24, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 8:00pm
> Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 2:00pm
>
>
> TICKET PRICES:
> $15.00 General Admission
> $12.00 Students and Seniors (55+)
> $ 8.00 Children (12 and under)
> Parental Caution: Language and drug use
> $ 8.00 for groups of 10 or more
>
> The Box Office opens about one hour before the start of the performance,
and
> tickets may be purchased there with cash or check --- NO CREDIT CARDS.
>
>
> RESERVATION LINE: (818) 240-1000 Extension 5618
> (Pay for the tickets at the door.)
>
>
>
> ADDRESS and PARKING:
> 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, California 91208
>
> From the Glendale Freeway (I2), get off at East Mountain Street heading
> West. Turn right (heading North) onto Verdugo Road, then right into the
> campus Circle Drive. (NOTE: Verdugo Road has a median strip, which
prevents
> left turns into the campus from the southbound direction.) Park in Lot "I"
> immediately West of the auditorium. (NOTE: The lot is marked with Parking
> Only By Permit signs, but it will be open for the performances.)  There
also
> is parking on the West side of Verdugo Road, with a footbridge provided
for
> crossing over to the campus.
>
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION and PRODUCTION PICTURES: Go to the Theatre Arts web
> page: glendale.edu/theatre. A campus map is available at:
> www.glendale.edu/maps/index.htm
>
> +++++++++++++++
>
> Nina:  Permission to re-post any or all of the above hereby granted.
>
> +++++++++++++++
>
> Hebe and I hope to have a group of about 10 together for opening night,
and
> we very probably will attend multiple times.  If other members of the
> cybertribe are interested, it would be lovely to get together!
>
> I can't believe it: THREE, count 'em, THREE productions of HAiR in our
> vicinity in as many months!  It's either famine or feast!  Looks like the
> Groovy Revolution is spreading.
>
>
>
> Blessed be with peace, love, freedom, and happiness!
>
> John
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair at islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Fri Feb 24 11:55:10 2006
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:55:10 -0000
Subject: No subject
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Press  Release
     
For Immediate  Release
September 28,  2005
Washington  D.C.
FBI  National Press Office
(202)  324-3691
TELEPHONE FRAUD INVOLVING JURY  DUTY 
Washington,  D.C. - The FBI  today is providing a warning to the public 
against an ongoing scheme  involving jury service. The public needs to be aware 
that individuals  identifying themselves as U.S. court employees have been 
telephonically  contacting citizens and advising them that they have been selected 
for  jury duty. These individuals ask to verify names and Social Security  
numbers, then ask for credit card numbers. If the request is refused,  citizens 
are then threatened with fines.  
The judicial system does not contact  people telephonically and ask for 
personal information such as your Social  Security number, date of birth or credit 
card numbers. If you receive one  of these phone calls, do not provide any 
personal or confidential  information to these individuals. This is an attempt to 
steal or to use  your identity by obtaining your name, Social Security number 
and  potentially to apply for credit or credit cards or other loans in your  
name. It is an attempt to defraud you.  
If you have already been contacted  and have already given out your personal 
information, please monitor your  account statements and credit reports, and 
contact your local FBI office.  Local FBI field office telephone numbers can be 
found in the front of your  local telephone directory or on _www.fbi.gov_ 
(http://www.fbi.gov/) . For further information,  please review the warnings 
posted on the U.S. Courts website at _www.uscourts.gov_ (http://www.uscourts.gov/) 
, "Newsroom" news  article "WARNING: Bogus Phone Calls on Jury Service May 
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From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
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Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.13.1142302923.3388.mb-hair@islandlists.com>

Press  Release
     
For Immediate  Release
September 28,  2005
Washington  D.C.
FBI  National Press Office
(202)  324-3691
TELEPHONE FRAUD INVOLVING JURY  DUTY 
Washington,  D.C. - The FBI  today is providing a warning to the public 
against an ongoing scheme  involving jury service. The public needs to be aware 
that individuals  identifying themselves as U.S. court employees have been 
telephonically  contacting citizens and advising them that they have been selected 
for  jury duty. These individuals ask to verify names and Social Security  
numbers, then ask for credit card numbers. If the request is refused,  citizens 
are then threatened with fines.  
The judicial system does not contact  people telephonically and ask for 
personal information such as your Social  Security number, date of birth or credit 
card numbers. If you receive one  of these phone calls, do not provide any 
personal or confidential  information to these individuals. This is an attempt to 
steal or to use  your identity by obtaining your name, Social Security number 
and  potentially to apply for credit or credit cards or other loans in your  
name. It is an attempt to defraud you.  
If you have already been contacted  and have already given out your personal 
information, please monitor your  account statements and credit reports, and 
contact your local FBI office.  Local FBI field office telephone numbers can be 
found in the front of your  local telephone directory or on _www.fbi.gov_ 
(http://www.fbi.gov/) . For further information,  please review the warnings 
posted on the U.S. Courts website at _www.uscourts.gov_ (http://www.uscourts.gov/) 
, "Newsroom" news  article "WARNING: Bogus Phone Calls on Jury Service May 
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"..... Claude, hair now cut, joins the line of faceless recruits, leaving 
Sheila to stand alone in the center of the stage with toy tanks coming at 
her from all directions."

Some books that can provide a better picture of the off Broadway and 
Broadway versions, and a comparision of the two are Barbara Lee Horn's The 
Age of Hair (the book version of her dissertation Hair: Chaning Versions) 
and Scott Miller's Let The Sun Shine In: The Genius of Hair.
Nina

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you know you're in trouble.

There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie
McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in
Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew
Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what
they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.

Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen
Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors
are inept or forgettable.

This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of
theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this
piece holds in musical theater history.
 

 
Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;
projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.
Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.
 

 
Read the full article at:
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you know you're in trouble.

There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie
McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in
Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew
Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what
they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.

Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen
Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors
are inept or forgettable.

This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of
theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this
piece holds in musical theater history.



Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;
projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.
Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.



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<div>"If it ain't broken - don't fix it."&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Sorry folks, but no one can convince me that "Hair" needs to be rewritten or updated.</div>  <div>Not even Jim Rado who I love and admire deeply. Just go back to the Tom O'Horgan</div>  <div>Broadway version (which WAS the HIT), and the people will get it. Do not stray too far </div>  <div>from the playing field or you'll get lost in the tall grass.</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Just an opinion of an old tribe member who is set in his ways ;)</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Peace, Love&nbsp;and Blessings ~ Jonathon<BR><BR><B><I>Michael Butler &lt;michael at michaelbutler.com&gt;</I></B> wrote:</div>  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>Posted: Thurs., Mar. 30, 2006, 8:00pm PT<BR><BR>Hair<BR><BR>(Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto; 876 Seats; C$89 $77 top)<BR><BR>A CanStage and Dancap Private Equity presentation of a musical in
 two<BR>acts with music by Galt MacDermot, book by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.<BR>Directed by Robert A. Prior. Musical director, Steve Hunter.<BR>Choreographer, Stephen Hues.<BR><BR>Grasshopper, Margaret Mead, Scarlett O'Hara - Matthew Boden<BR>Hud, Sergeant - Matthew Brown<BR>Berger, General Grant - Craig Burnatowski<BR>Sheila - Karen Burthwright<BR>Crissy, Monk - Kimmy Choi<BR>Stroodel, Dad, Hubert Mead - Kevin Dennis<BR>Brain, Rock Band Soloist - Gerrard Everard<BR>Justice - Ryan Field<BR>Dionne, Lincoln - Alana Hibbert<BR>Apache - Bryan Hindle<BR>Woof - Andrew Kushnir<BR>Claude - Jamie McKnight<BR>Pumpkin, Mom - Adrienne Merrell<BR>Thistle - David Mongar<BR>Karisma - Katrina Reynolds<BR>Karma, The God Aquarius, Monk - Julius Sermonia<BR>Lala - Valerie Stanois<BR>Hotdog, Principal, Clark Gable,<BR>Uncle Sam - Zachary Stevenson<BR>Moonchild, Aquarius Soloist - Sheena Turcotte<BR>Jeanie - Cleopatra Williams<BR>Angela - Naomi Zara<BR><BR><BR>_____ <BR><BR>By RICHARD
 OUZOUNIAN<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="bio&amp;peopleID=1932" www.variety.com><BR>_____ <BR><BR>Quick, get the Rogaine. The new production of "Hair" now on view in<BR>Toronto supposedly boasts a series of enriching rewrites by author James<BR>Rado. But rather than help the material, they make the iconic<BR>flower-power, antiwar musical seem thinner than ever. A lot of the<BR>blame, however, must be laid at the feet of director Robert A. Prior,<BR>choreographer Stephen Hues and a decidedly inferior cast.<BR><BR>Prior is the founder of L.A.'s Fabulous Monsters Performance Group, and<BR>Hues has collaborated with him on numerous occasions. They have a<BR>reputation for doing edgy, innovative productions, which is probably why<BR>Rado demanded that CanStage import the American duo for this production.<BR><BR>But something has gone horribly wrong along the way: The brightly<BR>colored, insipidly staged mess being performed at the Bluma Appel<BR>Theater would be more at home in a
 theme park than at Canada's largest<BR>regional theater.<BR><BR>It was their rough-hewn charm and political intensity that made the<BR>original productions of "Hair" work. The people who created, produced<BR>and performed the early versions of the show were united in their anger<BR>over the war in Vietnam. And so, despite an initially breezy air, some<BR>fetching tunes from Galt MacDermot and the inventive staging of Tom<BR>O'Horgan, the musical showed its rage in act two, which is largely a<BR>drug-fueled fantasy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<BR><BR>This is territory artists can still revisit with sincerity and passion,<BR>as Twyla Tharp proved in "Movin' Out."<BR><BR>But Prior and company have opted instead for Peter Max-colored designs<BR>and costumes that look like they stepped out of an episode of<BR>"Laugh-In." No one actually comes out and says, "Sock it to me!," but<BR>you wouldn't be surprised if they did.<BR><BR>Yes, there's a nude scene at the end of act one,
 but where it used to be<BR>a personal statement for the cast, tied into their reaction to Claude's<BR>moving "Where Do I Go?," it now features the whole cast in what looks<BR>like a merely egregious way to bring down the curtain.<BR><BR>When it was announced that Rado was working on rewrites of the script,<BR>some people assumed he might be honing the political message to make it<BR>more relevant to today. Nothing could be further from the truth.<BR><BR>Instead, he has expanded the book scenes in which Claude, Berger and<BR>Sheila work out the details of their not-quite-menage a trois. Maybe the<BR>material has personal resonance for Rado (the show supposedly mirrors<BR>his offstage relationship with co-author and co-star Ragni), but the<BR>cliched dialogue further drains the show's political intensity.<BR><BR>In a city known for a deep talent pool of young musical theater<BR>performers, Prior and Hues have largely contented themselves with<BR>fishing in the shallow end.
 Most of the company doesn't sing well, take<BR>the stage with confidence or seem to have any idea what they're doing.<BR>From the moment Sheena Turcotte feebly warbles opening song "Aquarius,"<BR>you know you're in trouble.<BR><BR>There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie<BR>McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in<BR>Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew<BR>Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what<BR>they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.<BR><BR>Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen<BR>Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors<BR>are inept or forgettable.<BR><BR>This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of<BR>theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this<BR>piece holds in musical theater history.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne;
 lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;<BR>projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.<BR>Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Read the full article at:<BR>http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&amp;r=VE1117930092&amp;c=33<BR><HTTP: www.variety.com story.asp?l="story&amp;r=VE1117930092&amp;c=33"><BR><BR>Like this article? Variety.com has over 150,000 articles, 35,000 reviews<BR>and 10,000 pages of charts. Subscribe today!<BR>http://www.variety.com/emailfriend<BR>or call (866) MY-VARIETY.<BR>Can't commit? Sign up for a free trial!<BR>http://www.variety.com/emailfriend<BR><BR><BR>? 2006 Reed Business Information<BR>Use of this Website is subject to Terms of Use.<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="terms" www.variety.com>Privacy Policy<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="about_privacy_layout" www.variety.com><BR><BR><BR>------ End of Forwarded
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you know you're in trouble.

There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie
McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in
Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew
Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what
they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.

Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen
Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors
are inept or forgettable.

This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of
theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this
piece holds in musical theater history.



Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;
projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.
Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.



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[mailto:mb-hair-bounces at islandlists.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonathon Johnson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 31, 2006 6:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mb-hair at islandlists.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>&quot;If it ain't broken =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>Sorry folks, but no one =
can
convince me that &quot;Hair&quot; needs to be rewritten or =
updated.<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>Not even Jim Rado who I =
love and
admire deeply. Just go back to the Tom O'Horgan<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>Broadway version (which =
WAS the
HIT), and the people will get it. Do not stray too far <o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>from the playing field =
or you'll
get lost in the tall grass.<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>Just an opinion of an =
old tribe
member who is set in his ways ;)<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'>Peace, Love&nbsp;and =
Blessings ~
Jonathon<br>
<br>
<b><i>Michael Butler &lt;michael at michaelbutler.com&gt;</i></b> =
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<br>
Posted: Thurs., Mar. 30, 2006, 8:00pm PT<br>
<br>
Hair<br>
<br>
(Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto; 876 Seats; C$89 $77 top)<br>
<br>
A CanStage and Dancap Private Equity presentation of a musical in =
two<br>
acts with music by Galt MacDermot, book by Gerome Ragni and James =
Rado.<br>
Directed by Robert A. Prior. Musical director, Steve Hunter.<br>
Choreographer, Stephen Hues.<br>
<br>
Grasshopper, Margaret Mead, Scarlett O'Hara - Matthew Boden<br>
Hud, Sergeant - Matthew Brown<br>
Berger, General Grant - Craig Burnatowski<br>
Sheila - Karen Burthwright<br>
Crissy, Monk - Kimmy Choi<br>
Stroodel, Dad, Hubert Mead - Kevin Dennis<br>
Brain, Rock Band Soloist - Gerrard Everard<br>
Justice - Ryan Field<br>
Dionne, Lincoln - Alana Hibbert<br>
Apache - Bryan Hindle<br>
Woof - Andrew Kushnir<br>
Claude - Jamie McKnight<br>
Pumpkin, Mom - Adrienne Merrell<br>
Thistle - David Mongar<br>
Karisma - Katrina Reynolds<br>
Karma, The God Aquarius, Monk - Julius Sermonia<br>
Lala - Valerie Stanois<br>
Hotdog, Principal, Clark Gable,<br>
Uncle Sam - Zachary Stevenson<br>
Moonchild, Aquarius Soloist - Sheena Turcotte<br>
Jeanie - Cleopatra Williams<br>
Angela - Naomi Zara<br>
<br>
<br>
_____ <br>
<br>
By RICHARD OUZOUNIAN<br>
<br>
<HTTP: index.asp_x003f_layout=3D"bio&amp;peopleID=3D1932" =
www.variety.com>_____ <br>
<br>
Quick, get the Rogaine. The new production of &quot;Hair&quot; now on =
view in<br>
Toronto supposedly boasts a series of enriching rewrites by author =
James<br>
Rado. But rather than help the material, they make the iconic<br>
flower-power, antiwar musical seem thinner than ever. A lot of the<br>
blame, however, must be laid at the feet of director Robert A. =
Prior,<br>
choreographer Stephen Hues and a decidedly inferior cast.<br>
<br>
Prior is the founder of L.A.'s Fabulous Monsters Performance Group, =
and<br>
Hues has collaborated with him on numerous occasions. They have a<br>
reputation for doing edgy, innovative productions, which is probably =
why<br>
Rado demanded that CanStage import the American duo for this =
production.<br>
<br>
But something has gone horribly wrong along the way: The brightly<br>
colored, insipidly staged mess being performed at the Bluma Appel<br>
Theater would be more at home in a theme park than at Canada's =
largest<br>
regional theater.<br>
<br>
It was their rough-hewn charm and political intensity that made the<br>
original productions of &quot;Hair&quot; work. The people who created, =
produced<br>
and performed the early versions of the show were united in their =
anger<br>
over the war in Vietnam. And so, despite an initially breezy air, =
some<br>
fetching tunes from Galt MacDermot and the inventive staging of Tom<br>
O'Horgan, the musical showed its rage in act two, which is largely a<br>
drug-fueled fantasy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<br>
<br>
This is territory artists can still revisit with sincerity and =
passion,<br>
as Twyla Tharp proved in &quot;Movin' Out.&quot;<br>
<br>
But Prior and company have opted instead for Peter Max-colored =
designs<br>
and costumes that look like they stepped out of an episode of<br>
&quot;Laugh-In.&quot; No one actually comes out and says, &quot;Sock it =
to me!,&quot;
but<br>
you wouldn't be surprised if they did.<br>
<br>
Yes, there's a nude scene at the end of act one, but where it used to =
be<br>
a personal statement for the cast, tied into their reaction to =
Claude's<br>
moving &quot;Where Do I Go?,&quot; it now features the whole cast in =
what looks<br>
like a merely egregious way to bring down the curtain.<br>
<br>
When it was announced that Rado was working on rewrites of the =
script,<br>
some people assumed he might be honing the political message to make =
it<br>
more relevant to today. Nothing could be further from the truth.<br>
<br>
Instead, he has expanded the book scenes in which Claude, Berger and<br>
Sheila work out the details of their not-quite-menage a trois. Maybe =
the<br>
material has personal resonance for Rado (the show supposedly =
mirrors<br>
his offstage relationship with co-author and co-star Ragni), but the<br>
cliched dialogue further drains the show's political intensity.<br>
<br>
In a city known for a deep talent pool of young musical theater<br>
performers, Prior and Hues have largely contented themselves with<br>
fishing in the shallow end. Most of the company doesn't sing well, =
take<br>
the stage with confidence or seem to have any idea what they're =
doing.<br>

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From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
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&quot;Aquarius,&quot;<br>
you know you're in trouble.<br>
<br>
There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie<br>
McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed =
in<br>
Toronto productions of &quot;The Producers&quot; and &quot;Annie Get =
Your
Gun.&quot; Andrew<br>
Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in =
what<br>
they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.<br>
<br>
Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and =
Karen<br>
Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the =
actors<br>
are inept or forgettable.<br>
<br>
This limp version of &quot;Hair&quot; is unlikely to attract a new =
generation
of<br>
theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this<br>
piece holds in musical theater history.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John =
Lott;<br>
projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.<br>
Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 =
MIN.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Read the full article at:<br>
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3<br>
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you know you're in trouble.

There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie
McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in
Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew
Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what
they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.

Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen
Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors
are inept or forgettable.

This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of
theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this
piece holds in musical theater history.



Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne; lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;
projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.
Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.



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<hr style='height:2px;padding:0 0 0 0;color:#a8b9c9'><b>From:</b> Jonathon Johnson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:15:09 -0700<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Mb-hair] FW: Variety.com - Hair<br>
<br><DIV><div>"If it ain't broken - don't fix it."&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Sorry folks, but no one can convince me that "Hair" needs to be rewritten or updated.</div>  <div>Not even Jim Rado who I love and admire deeply. Just go back to the Tom O'Horgan</div>  <div>Broadway version (which WAS the HIT), and the people will get it. Do not stray too far </div>  <div>from the playing field or you'll get lost in the tall grass.</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Just an opinion of an old tribe member who is set in his ways ;)</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Peace, Love&nbsp;and Blessings ~ Jonathon<BR><BR><B><I>Michael Butler &lt;michael at michaelbutler.com&gt;</I></B> wrote:</div>  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>Posted: Thurs., Mar. 30, 2006, 8:00pm PT<BR><BR>Hair<BR><BR>(Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto; 876 Seats; C$89 $77 top)<BR><BR>A CanStage and Dancap Private Equity presentation of a musical in
 two<BR>acts with music by Galt MacDermot, book by Gerome Ragni and James Rado.<BR>Directed by Robert A. Prior. Musical director, Steve Hunter.<BR>Choreographer, Stephen Hues.<BR><BR>Grasshopper, Margaret Mead, Scarlett O'Hara - Matthew Boden<BR>Hud, Sergeant - Matthew Brown<BR>Berger, General Grant - Craig Burnatowski<BR>Sheila - Karen Burthwright<BR>Crissy, Monk - Kimmy Choi<BR>Stroodel, Dad, Hubert Mead - Kevin Dennis<BR>Brain, Rock Band Soloist - Gerrard Everard<BR>Justice - Ryan Field<BR>Dionne, Lincoln - Alana Hibbert<BR>Apache - Bryan Hindle<BR>Woof - Andrew Kushnir<BR>Claude - Jamie McKnight<BR>Pumpkin, Mom - Adrienne Merrell<BR>Thistle - David Mongar<BR>Karisma - Katrina Reynolds<BR>Karma, The God Aquarius, Monk - Julius Sermonia<BR>Lala - Valerie Stanois<BR>Hotdog, Principal, Clark Gable,<BR>Uncle Sam - Zachary Stevenson<BR>Moonchild, Aquarius Soloist - Sheena Turcotte<BR>Jeanie - Cleopatra Williams<BR>Angela - Naomi Zara<BR><BR><BR>_____ <BR><BR>By RICHARD
 OUZOUNIAN<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="bio&amp;peopleID=1932" www.variety.com><BR>_____ <BR><BR>Quick, get the Rogaine. The new production of "Hair" now on view in<BR>Toronto supposedly boasts a series of enriching rewrites by author James<BR>Rado. But rather than help the material, they make the iconic<BR>flower-power, antiwar musical seem thinner than ever. A lot of the<BR>blame, however, must be laid at the feet of director Robert A. Prior,<BR>choreographer Stephen Hues and a decidedly inferior cast.<BR><BR>Prior is the founder of L.A.'s Fabulous Monsters Performance Group, and<BR>Hues has collaborated with him on numerous occasions. They have a<BR>reputation for doing edgy, innovative productions, which is probably why<BR>Rado demanded that CanStage import the American duo for this production.<BR><BR>But something has gone horribly wrong along the way: The brightly<BR>colored, insipidly staged mess being performed at the Bluma Appel<BR>Theater would be more at home in a
 theme park than at Canada's largest<BR>regional theater.<BR><BR>It was their rough-hewn charm and political intensity that made the<BR>original productions of "Hair" work. The people who created, produced<BR>and performed the early versions of the show were united in their anger<BR>over the war in Vietnam. And so, despite an initially breezy air, some<BR>fetching tunes from Galt MacDermot and the inventive staging of Tom<BR>O'Horgan, the musical showed its rage in act two, which is largely a<BR>drug-fueled fantasy of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<BR><BR>This is territory artists can still revisit with sincerity and passion,<BR>as Twyla Tharp proved in "Movin' Out."<BR><BR>But Prior and company have opted instead for Peter Max-colored designs<BR>and costumes that look like they stepped out of an episode of<BR>"Laugh-In." No one actually comes out and says, "Sock it to me!," but<BR>you wouldn't be surprised if they did.<BR><BR>Yes, there's a nude scene at the end of act one,
 but where it used to be<BR>a personal statement for the cast, tied into their reaction to Claude's<BR>moving "Where Do I Go?," it now features the whole cast in what looks<BR>like a merely egregious way to bring down the curtain.<BR><BR>When it was announced that Rado was working on rewrites of the script,<BR>some people assumed he might be honing the political message to make it<BR>more relevant to today. Nothing could be further from the truth.<BR><BR>Instead, he has expanded the book scenes in which Claude, Berger and<BR>Sheila work out the details of their not-quite-menage a trois. Maybe the<BR>material has personal resonance for Rado (the show supposedly mirrors<BR>his offstage relationship with co-author and co-star Ragni), but the<BR>cliched dialogue further drains the show's political intensity.<BR><BR>In a city known for a deep talent pool of young musical theater<BR>performers, Prior and Hues have largely contented themselves with<BR>fishing in the shallow end.
 Most of the company doesn't sing well, take<BR>the stage with confidence or seem to have any idea what they're doing.<BR>From the moment Sheena Turcotte feebly warbles opening song "Aquarius,"<BR>you know you're in trouble.<BR><BR>There are a few exceptions. In the leading role of Claude, Jamie<BR>McKnight shows the energy, vocal power and charm that he developed in<BR>Toronto productions of "The Producers" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Andrew<BR>Kushnir, Matthew Boden and Adrienne Merrell find solid comedy in what<BR>they've been asked to do, but they stand alone.<BR><BR>Craig Burnatowski is a single-expression Berger (sneering), and Karen<BR>Burthwright has one vocal note as Sheila (loud); the rest of the actors<BR>are inept or forgettable.<BR><BR>This limp version of "Hair" is unlikely to attract a new generation of<BR>theatergoers to the work. Sadly, it may even dim the reputation this<BR>piece holds in musical theater history.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Sets and costumes, Dany Lyne;
 lighting, John Munro; sound, John Lott;<BR>projections, Yo Suzuki, Lovemushroom Studio. Opened March 30, 2006.<BR>Reviewed March 29. Runs through June 17. Running time: 2 HOURS, 40 MIN.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Read the full article at:<BR>http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&amp;r=VE1117930092&amp;c=33<BR><HTTP: www.variety.com story.asp?l="story&amp;r=VE1117930092&amp;c=33"><BR><BR>Like this article? Variety.com has over 150,000 articles, 35,000 reviews<BR>and 10,000 pages of charts. Subscribe today!<BR>http://www.variety.com/emailfriend<BR>or call (866) MY-VARIETY.<BR>Can't commit? Sign up for a free trial!<BR>http://www.variety.com/emailfriend<BR><BR><BR> 2006 Reed Business Information<BR>Use of this Website is subject to Terms of Use.<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="terms" www.variety.com>Privacy Policy<BR><HTTP: index.asp?layout="about_privacy_layout" www.variety.com><BR><BR><BR>------ End of Forwarded
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The writer asks Ann in the article:

=B3She debated Al Franken recently?

=B3=B9Yes,=B9 she said. =8CIt=B9s not an interesting debate, because liberals can=B9t
argue. So it=B9s never like point-counterpoint; all we do is hear about his
fucking U.S.O. tours for three hours. Excuse my French.=B9=B2

Ann, let=B9s see if we can have a point-counterpoint, and an interesting
debate. And by the way, Ann, I have here a DVD of that entire three hour
debate =AD And I=B9ll bet you my speaking fee tonight that I spoke about my USO
tours for less than a grand total of three minutes. How about it Ann? My
speaking fee against your speaking fee?

I mean we care about the truth, don=B9t we?

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</FONT> DEBATE OPENING STATEMENT &#8211; <B>UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM<BR>
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Thank you. First of all, I know I join Ann in thanking the University of Ju=
daism for hosting this event. We&#8217;ve had an opportunity to spend some t=
ime with President Wexler and have dinner with many folks from the Universit=
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And I&#8217;d like to answer the question that I actually get asked the mos=
t when I do an event for a Jewish organization. Yes, I had enough to eat.<BR=
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You know, in these kinds of debate forums, someone has to go first. It&#821=
7;s always preferable to go second, because you can react to what&#8217;s be=
en said, giving you something of a tactical advantage. More importantly, it =
pretty much spares you the chore of writing out pre-prepared remarks.<BR>
<BR>
Both Ann and I said we preferred going second, but I didn&#8217;t insist on=
 it, because I understood somebody had to go first. And being a liberal, I j=
ust wasn&#8217;t tough-minded enough to insist on a coin toss.<BR>
<BR>
So, I&#8217;ll try to use my time to define the terms of the debate &#8211;=
 if you will. &#8220;Whence Judaism?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
No. I think we should talk about the Bush Administration and the Republican=
 Congress and what it has accomplished over the past five years. I&#8217;m t=
alking, of course, about well over two trillion dollars added to the nationa=
l debt, the increase in poverty in our country and the added millions of Ame=
ricans, including children, without health insurance. I&#8217;m talking abou=
t the sale of our democracy to corporate interests that pollute our water an=
d our air. I&#8217;m talking about the widening gap between the haves and th=
e have nots in this country. And I&#8217;m talking about the war in Iraq.<BR=
>
<BR>
I&#8217;m talking about an increasingly corrupt, secretive, and incompetent=
 federal government that rewards cronies, a Republican majority in Congress =
that&#8217;s acted as a rubber stamp, that has performed virtually no oversi=
ght and which excludes the minority party from the legislative process in a =
way unprecedented in our recent history.<BR>
<BR>
I also want to discuss with Ann the coarsening of dialogue in this country.=
 I want to discuss values with Ann. Values like love, of family, of your fel=
low man, of country. Ann has said repeatedly that liberals hate America. I d=
isagree.<BR>
<BR>
Last year I had the honor of speaking at West Point. It was an audience not=
 so very different from this one. Except that instead of you, the audience w=
as made up of about twelve hundred cadets. Many of whom will be going to Ira=
q in the next year or so.<BR>
<BR>
The occasion was the Sol Feinstone Lecture on the Meaning of Freedom endowe=
d by philanthropist Sol Feinstone. It&#8217;s an annual event and Sol Feinst=
ein&#8217;s granddaughter, who is about my age, attended.<BR>
<BR>
After telling a number jokes and getting the cadets on my side. I told them=
 that we had been lied into the war in Iraq. I had just published a book ent=
itled The Truth (with jokes), and I told the cadets that you can&#8217;t hav=
e freedom without the truth. You can have freedom without jokes, as has been=
 proven by the Dutch and the Swiss.<BR>
<BR>
I proceeded to prove that we had been lied into war, citing example after e=
xample of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld,=
 and Condi Rice, who had been National Security Advisor in the lead-up to th=
e war, telling the public information that they knew not to be true.<BR>
<BR>
At the end of the speech I received a standing ovation from the cadets. Sol=
 Feinstone&#8217;s granddaughter told me she had gone to every lecture for t=
he last thirty or so years, and that I received only the second standing ova=
tion. The other was for Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietna=
m.<BR>
<BR>
By the way, Ann has written that Max Cleland was lucky to have lost his leg=
s and his arm in Vietnam. I disagree. More importantly, I know Max, and he d=
isagrees.<BR>
<BR>
I believe I received the standing ovation because the cadets knew that I wa=
s speaking from the heart, and that the information I had given them was all=
 true. And as I said, you can&#8217;t have freedom without the truth.<BR>
<BR>
You can&#8217;t have good government without the truth. During the crafting=
 and passage of the Medicare prescription drug bill, the chief actuary of Me=
dicare was told to withhold from Congress the true cost of the bill. He&#821=
7;d be fired if he told the truth.<BR>
<BR>
The bill costs so much, in large part, because the bill prohibits Medicare =
from negotiating with the pharmaceutical companies on the price of drugs. As=
 a result, seniors now pay on average 44% more than veterans getting the sam=
e drugs through the VA which is allowed to use its size to negotiate with th=
e drug companies. To get the bill passed, the vote was held open for three h=
ours. Tom DeLay was later admonished by Republicans on the ethics committee =
for attempting to bribe, and then extort, Republican Nick Smith of Michigan =
to get him to change his vote. The chairman of the Commerce Committee Billy =
Tauzin who ushered the legislation through, soon left Congress for a two mil=
lion dollar a year job as the chief lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry=
. Obviously, a complete coincidence.<BR>
<BR>
During the 2000 campaign George Bush ran for president by saying repeatedly=
, and I quote, &#8220;by far the vast majority of my tax cut goes to those a=
t the bottom.&#8221; Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.<BR>
<BR>
In fact, the president continues to ask for and sign tax cuts that go prima=
rily to those at the top. By the way, until George W. Bush, our country had =
never cut taxes during a time of war.<BR>
<BR>
As a result, our deficits grow and the cuts &#8211; in Medicaid, Pell Grant=
s, food stamps, low-income housing subsidies, community block grants &#8211;=
 are targeted at the poorest in our society.<BR>
<BR>
George W. Bush famously said that Jesus was his favorite political philosop=
her. Frankly, I don&#8217;t get it.<BR>
<BR>
I&#8217;m Jewish. Thank you. I&#8217;m not an expert on the New Testament. =
But I know that if you cut out all the passages where Jesus talks about help=
ing the poor, helping the least among us, if you literally took a pair of sc=
issors and cut out all those passages, you&#8217;d have the perfect box to s=
muggle Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s drugs in.<BR>
<BR>
I don&#8217;t understand when the Christian right says that equal rights in=
 marriage threatens marriage. I&#8217;ve been married 30 years, many of them=
 happy. I don&#8217;t think that if my wife and I were walking around in Bos=
ton, where we met, if we saw two men holding hands with wedding bands&#8230;=
 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d say &#8220;Hey, that looks good. Y&#8217;know=
, honey, you don&#8217;t like watching football on Sundays. Maybe I could ma=
rry a guy, watch football with him, and then if I wanted to have sex, I coul=
d come over and have sex with you.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
I was just talking to Newt Gingrich the other day. And I said to him, &#822=
0;Don&#8217;t you want for a gay couple what you had with your first wife? D=
on&#8217;t you want that bond that comes with the pledge of fidelity that yo=
u had with your second wife? Don&#8217;t you want what comes with that lifel=
ong bond that you may or may not have with your third wife &#8211; I have no=
 idea what&#8217;s going on there.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
You know, Bill O&#8217;Reilly always talks about his &#8220;traditional val=
ues&#8221; &#8211; as opposed to &#8220;the far left&#8217;s secular humanis=
t values.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t realize phone sex was a traditional value. I=
 didn&#8217;t think the phone had been around long enough. Maybe telegraph s=
ex.<BR>
<BR>
In her book Slander, Ann referred to Democrats and our &#8220;Marquis de Sa=
de lifestyle.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been married for thirty years. Ann, you&#821=
7;re an attractive woman. And I know you support the president&#8217;s absti=
nence-only sex education. I want to congratulate you for saving yourself for=
 your one true love.<BR>
<BR>
When my daughter was six years old, her teacher asked all her students to w=
rite about how their parents had met. We told Thomasin that we met at a mixe=
r freshman year of college. I saw Franni across the room, gathering up some =
friends to leave. I liked the way she was taking control and I thought she w=
as beautiful. So I asked her to dance, and then got her a ginger ale, then e=
scorted her to her dorm and asked for a date.<BR>
<BR>
My daughter wrote, &#8220;My dad asked my mom to dance, bought her a drink,=
 and then took her home.&#8221; Now all the facts were accurate, but what my=
 daughter wrote was extremely misleading. Now my daughter wasn&#8217;t lying=
. She didn&#8217;t realize that what she wrote made her mom seem like a slut=
.<BR>
<BR>
Ann, however, is not six years old. And she has developed her own technique=
s for misleading, by leaving out important facts. Let me give you an example=
 of Ann lying by omission.<BR>
<BR>
Also in her book Slander, Ann tells her readers that Al Gore had a leg up o=
n George W. Bush when applying to their respective colleges. Harvard and Yal=
e. Ann writes:<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;Oddly, it was Bush who was routinely accused of having sailed throug=
h life on his father&#8217;s name. But the truth was the reverse. The media =
was manipulating the fact that &#8211; many years later &#8211; Bush&#8217;s=
 father became president. When Bush was admitted to Yale, his father was a l=
ittle-known congressman on the verge of losing his first Senate race. His fa=
ther was a Yale alumnus, but so were a lot of other boys&#8217; parents. It =
was Gore, not Bush, who had a famous father likely to impress college admiss=
ions committees.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
What does Ann omit? Well, that Bush&#8217;s grandfather Prescott Bush was a=
lso a Yale alum and had been Senator from Connecticut, the home state of Yal=
e University. That Prescott Bush had been a trustee of Yale. That Prescott B=
ush had been the first chair of Yale&#8217;s Development Board &#8211; the f=
olks who raise the money. That Prescott Bush sat on the Yale Corporation for=
 twelve years. That Prescott Bush, like George W. Bush&#8217;s father, Georg=
e H. W, Bush, had been a member of Skull and Bones. That the first Bush to g=
o to Yale was Bush&#8217;s great great grandfather James Bush, who graduated=
 in 1844. That in addition to his father, grandfather, and greatgreatgrandfa=
ther, Bush was the legacy of no less than twenty-seven other relatives who p=
receded him at Yale, including five great great uncles. Seven great uncles. =
Five uncles, and a number of first cousins.<BR>
<BR>
Now why did Ann leave out these somewhat relevant facts? Ann grew up in Con=
necticut. Ann, did you really not know that Prescott Bush had been your sena=
tor when you were born?<BR>
<BR>
Ann, is it possible that when Prescott&#8217;s son George H. W. Bush became=
 president, it totally escaped your notice that his father had represented y=
our state in the United States Senate? Did neither of your parents mention i=
t in passing at the dinner table? Did no one at home in Darien make any comm=
ents about the new president&#8217;s lineage?<BR>
<BR>
Understand. This isn&#8217;t sloppiness. This is deliberate. For Ann&#8217;=
s purposes &#8211; to claim that the media that was manipulating facts here =
&#8211; Ann herself had to manipulate facts &#8211; in such a shameless way.=
 This is what she does.<BR>
<BR>
And she does it over and over and over again.<BR>
<BR>
Let me give you another example.<BR>
<BR>
On page 265 of her book Treason, Ann writes of Tom Friedman, the New York T=
imes columnist. &#8220;He blamed twenty years of relentless attacks by Musli=
m extremists on- I quote &#8211; &#8216;religious fundamentalists of any str=
ipe.&#8217;&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
This didn&#8217;t sound like Tom Friedman to me, so I found the one Friedma=
n column that contained that phrase &#8211; &#8220;religious fundamentalists=
 of any stripe.&#8221; It was from a December 26, 2001 column called &#8220;=
Naked Air,&#8221; about an airline where everyone would fly naked. &#8220;Th=
ink about it,&#8221; Friedman writes, tongue firmly planted in cheek, &#8220=
;If everybody flew naked, not only would you never have to worry about the p=
assenger next to you carrying box cutters or exploding shoes, but no religio=
us fundamentalists of any stripe would ever be caught dead flying nude.&#822=
1;<BR>
<BR>
Let me repeat. Ann wrote of Tom Friedman, Jewish by the way, that &#8220;he=
 blamed twenty years of relentless attacks by Muslim extremists on &#8211; I=
 quote &#8211; &#8216;religious fundamentalists of any stripe.&#8217;&#8221;=
 She bothered to put &#8220;I quote&#8221; in there for emphasis.<BR>
<BR>
Friedman actually wrote &#8220;no religious fundamentalists of any stripe w=
ould ever be caught dead flying nude&#8221; in service of a conceit that ill=
ustrated our dilemma of either becoming less open as a society or learning t=
o live with much higher risks than we&#8217;ve ever been used to before.<BR>
<BR>
Friedman was not blaming 9/11 on the Lubavichers, as Ann suggests.<BR>
<BR>
Now this sort of deliberate misrepresentation contributes to a coarsening o=
f our nation&#8217;s dialogue. Ann recently told an audience:<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens&#8217; crem=
e brulee,&#8221; Coulter said. &#8220;That&#8217;s just a joke, for you in t=
he media.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Here&#8217;s my question. What&#8217;s the joke? Maybe it&#8217;s a prejudi=
ce from my days as a comedy writer, but I always thought the joke had to hav=
e an operative funny idea. I&#8217;ll give you an example of a joke.<BR>
<BR>
Like they do every Saturday night, two elderly Jewish couples are going out=
 to dinner. The guys are in front, the girls riding in back. Irv says to Sid=
, &#8220;Where should we go tonight?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Sid says, &#8220;How about that place we went about a month ago. The Italia=
n place with the great lasagna.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Irv says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember it.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Sid says, &#8220;The place with the great lasagna.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Irv says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember. What&#8217;s the name of the place=
?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Sid thinks. But can&#8217;t remember. &#8220;A flower. Gimme a flower.&#822=
1;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;Tulip?&#8221; Irv says.<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;No, no. A different flower.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;Magnolia?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;No, no. A basic flower.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;Orchid?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;No! Basic.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;Rose?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
That&#8217;s it! Sid turns to the back seat. &#8220;Rose. What was the name=
 of that restaurant&#8230;?&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
That&#8217;s a joke. What exactly is the joke in &#8220;We need somebody to=
 put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens&#8217; creme brulee?&#8221; Is it the =
cr&egrave;me brulee? Is that it? Because Stevens is some kind of Francophile=
 or elitist? Is it the rat poison? See, I would have gone with Drano. I&#821=
7;m really trying here, Ann. Please, when you come up, explain the joke abou=
t murdering an associate justice of the Supreme Court. One who by the way, w=
as appointed to the Supreme Court by Gerald Ford, and who, also, by the way,=
 won a Bronze Star serving in the Navy in World War II. What is the joke? &#=
8216;Cause I don&#8217;t get it.<BR>
<BR>
Now in Ann&#8217;s defense, she doesn&#8217;t always make horribly offensiv=
e remarks or knowingly craft lies. Very often Ann is just wrong out of ignor=
ance or pure laziness. Take this from the MSNBC Show &#8211; Saturday Final =
&#8211; on August 30, 2003 &#8211; MSNBC. She is talking about how well the =
war in Iraq is going.<BR>
<BR>
COULTER: I think the rebuilding is going extremely well. Douglas MacArthur =
was in Japan five years after V.J. Day. There were enormous casualties in Ge=
rmany after World War II. The rebuilding is actually going quite well compar=
ed to past efforts. And really, all we&#8217;re getting from Democrats is co=
nstant carping.<BR>
<BR>
Ann, do you know how many combat fatalities the American military had in Ge=
rmany after V-E day? Zero. You know how many in Japan after V-J day? Zero.<B=
R>
<BR>
Ann and I have debated once before. In May of 2004, and Ann still felt the =
war was going amazingly well. Let me quote her from that debate:<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;&#8230;. This war is going amazingly well&#8230; the casualty rate i=
s incredibly small for the rebuilding. It is going better than can be expect=
ed. You cannot read about how well things are going against Al Sadr, where y=
ou have Iraqis protesting against Al Sadr; all these stories about how Al Sa=
dr had (this) vast support among the Iraquis&#8230; oh no no no. They recent=
ly held a protest march saying, &#8216;Al Sadr, get out.&#8217;&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
As you know, Ann, Moktadr al Sadr, recently picked the Shiite choice for pr=
ime minister for the new government, Mohamed al Jafaari. Sadr has thirty-two=
 seats in the Iraqi assembly compared to Ahmed Chalabi&#8217;s zero. And rem=
ember, it was Chalabi to whom we were going to turn over the Iraqi governmen=
t.<BR>
<BR>
Things are not going amazingly well in Iraq. And they haven&#8217;t been go=
ing amazingly well since we allowed the looting of Baghdad. A week ago, form=
er prime minister Ayad Allawi said that Iraq was already in a civil war. And=
 as George Bush said in September of 2004, we should listen to Allawi becaus=
e &#8211; and I quote &#8211; &#8220;he understands what&#8217;s going on th=
ere &#8211; after all, he lives there.&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
The first thing this Administration needs to do in Iraq is to start acknowl=
edging the truth and level with the American people.<BR>
<BR>
I think the one lesson we can all agree on from Vietnam is that we cannot b=
lame the troops. By and large, the vast, vast majority of our troops have pe=
rformed heroically. And they deserve our gratitude and support. And that mea=
ns supporting them after they&#8217;ve come home.<BR>
<BR>
Two thirds of the wounded in Iraq now have brain injuries. That&#8217;s bec=
ause so many of the casualties are from IED&#8217;s, and the injuries are co=
ncussive and not ballistic. Each one of those brain injuries is going to cos=
t a million dollars over the course of that veteran&#8217;s life. And we nee=
d to fund programs for those who come back with post traumatic stress disord=
er &#8211; a higher percentage than in any previous war.<BR>
<BR>
Now another value I believe in is love of country. For some reason it rankl=
es Ann that I&#8217;ve done six USO tours and have had the nerve to talk abo=
ut it. I do so because I want people to be aware of the work that the USO do=
es. I want anyone here today who is a Hollywood celebrity to think about giv=
ing up a couple weeks of your life to entertain our men and women in uniform=
. I think it rankles Ann that I&#8217;ve talked about going on the USO tours=
 because she can&#8217;t conceive that anyone would actually do something fo=
r anyone else. I didn&#8217;t go to Iraq to prove that Democrats are patriot=
ic, Ann. I did my first USO tour in 1999, when Clinton was president. We wen=
t to Kosovo, a war that was vehemently and vocally opposed by many Republica=
ns. Even so, we didn&#8217;t call them traitors. I was invited by the USO to=
 go to Iraq because they know I do a good job and that it means a lot to the=
 troops when anyone comes over to show them we care.<BR>
<BR>
My daughter is 25. She teaches inner city kids in the Bronx. And that makes=
 me proud. She hates when I say it, and that makes me even more proud.<BR>
<BR>
My son is an engineering student. He wants to build fuel efficient cars. He=
&#8217;s a junior in college and got a job at Ford this summer working on a =
new manufacturing process for power trans. I don&#8217;t know what that mean=
s either. But he got there because he works his butt off.<BR>
<BR>
But my son doesn&#8217;t feel that he got where he is because he is some ki=
nd of rugged individual. That he did it all himself. He knows that he stands=
 on the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on =
the shoulders of those who stood on the shoulders of those who stood on the =
necks of Indians.<BR>
<BR>
My wife and I tried to instill certain values in our kids. But we don&#8217=
;t love them because they&#8217;re perfect. We love them because they&#8217;=
re decent, loving kids. Kids who care about others and care, by the way, abo=
ut the truth.<BR>
<BR>
One last thing. Speaking of the truth. A few months after my last debate wi=
th Ann, the following appeared in a New York Observer story about Ann. From =
the September 13, 2004 issue..<BR>
<BR>
The writer asks Ann in the article:<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;She debated Al Franken recently?<BR>
<BR>
&#8220;&#8217;Yes,&#8217; she said. &#8216;It&#8217;s not an interesting de=
bate, because liberals can&#8217;t argue. So it&#8217;s never like point-cou=
nterpoint; all we do is hear about his fucking U.S.O. tours for three hours.=
 Excuse my French.&#8217;&#8221;<BR>
<BR>
Ann, let&#8217;s see if we can have a point-counterpoint, and an interestin=
g debate. And by the way, Ann, I have here a DVD of that entire three hour d=
ebate &#8211; And I&#8217;ll bet you my speaking fee tonight that I spoke ab=
out my USO tours for less than a grand total of three minutes. How about it =
Ann? My speaking fee against your speaking fee?<BR>
<BR>
I mean we care about the truth, don&#8217;t we?</FONT>
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CITIES with walls in their hearts are never happy places. Jerusalem is again
becoming one of these. From the war of 1948 till the war of 1967, the
armistice line between Israel and Jordan ran through Jerusalem, dividing the
Jewish west from the Arab east. After capturing Jerusalem in 1967, Israel
said the reunited city would be its eternal capital. Now the concrete and
barbed wire are back. Before long, the ?security barrier? Israel is building
in and round the occupied West Bank will bisect its own capital. But as our
special report explains, the new wall does not follow the old border: it
swallows into Israel both the new Jewish suburbs Israel built in east
Jerusalem after 1967 and most of the Arab city. When the wall is finished,
and if its gates are closed, Arab Jerusalem will then be cut off from its
hinterland in the West Bank.

Jerusalem is both a problem in its own right and a parable for the wider
conflict. It is a problem in its own right because Arabs and Jews have found
no way either to share or divide it. In Jerusalem God and history have made
sharing bitterly hard. This is a city in which religions as well as
nationalisms collide. The Temple Mount, which Jews call their holiest place,
is the very same place Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary, from which Muhammad
ascended by a golden ladder to heaven. And although the world has invented a
multitude of peace plans, none has stuck. The United Nations' stillborn
partition plan of 1947 said the city should be internationalised. But in
1948 Israel and Jordan preferred to keep the parts they grabbed in war. Just
over five years ago, Bill Clinton sketched out in his ?parameters? a plan to
divide the city. Instead came a new sort of war, in the shape of the
Palestinian intifada.


The problem

There will be no peace in Palestine until the problem of Jerusalem is
solved. Together with the fate of the Palestinian refugees of 1948, it is
rightly called the heart of the conflict. But it is a heart shared by
conjoined twins. Both Israel and Palestine say that they cannot live without
it. So any operation designed to separate Israel from the Palestinians must
be exceptionally sensitive and delicate. Worse, it must be performed from
the outset in the knowledge that complete separation is out of the question.
In Jerusalem at least, Israel and Palestine are doomed to remain perpetually
entwined.

In the nearly 40 years since 1967, sensitivity and delicacy have not been
Israel's watchwords in Jerusalem. As it happens, most orthodox Jews
subscribe to a dogma that forbids Jewish access to the Temple Mount until
the day of redemption. This has helped Israel leave the running of the Noble
Sanctuary and its mosques in Muslim hands. But in Jerusalem as a whole
Israel's policy has been to entrench its control and create facts that
cannot be reversed. This has entailed reshaping the physical and demographic
geography of the city, settling Jews on the Arab side of the pre-1967 border
and creating vast Jewish neighbourhoods to the north, east and south.

On one level, the policy has worked. The huge physical changes render it
impossible to redivide the city along the pre-1967 boundary. But on many
other levels, the policy has failed. The rest of the world, including the
United Nations and the United States, says still that Israel's annexation of
the city, and the settling of Jews across the old border, are illegal.
Moreover, in spite of sometimes ruthless Israeli efforts to turf Arabs out
of their homes, demography has defied expectations. Jews have formed a
majority in Jerusalem since the late 19th century. Since 1967, however, this
has declined, from 74% of the reunited city in 1967 to about 67%. And for
all Israel's declarations, the city has never been ?reunited? in spirit. Its
Palestinian residents refuse to vote in municipal elections and insist on
their future as part of an independent Palestine.

The parable

Jerusalem is a microcosm. Israel has settled Jews in much of the West Bank,
but these settlements are illegal too. As in Jerusalem, demography has
undone the dream of a Greater Israel. Israel's incoming government
acknowledges that it must fall back to shorter borders and let an
independent Palestine arise behind it. But, as in Jerusalem, the old
pre-1967 border has been largely erased. And the chances of negotiating a
new one, now that the obdurate Islamists of Hamas have replaced the
impossible Yasser Arafat, are remote. Hence the appeal of the big idea that
Israelis have come to see as the next-best thing: unilateral withdrawal to
borders of their own choosing. In essence, this entails building a security
barrier to keep out suicide bombers, evacuating the settlements on the far
side of the barrier, hunkering down and hoping for the best.

As a second-best, unilateralism has merits. By going it alone, Israel left
Gaza. If Israel now evacuates more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, so
much better for the prospects of an eventual Palestinian state. But even if
it is better than nothing, this is no substitute for a negotiated peace.

Again, Jerusalem shows why. Israel's barrier is not just for security. It is
also a land grab: an attempt to map out preferred borders. That is why, in
the case of Jerusalem, the barrier ignores demography and swallows up east
Jerusalem. This follows the annexation border but traps on the Israeli side
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who will be cut off from their
brethren in the West Bank and may well be tempted in any new intifada to
help or become suicide bombers.

Israel does not bear sole responsibility for the current impasse. The crazy
human geography of Jerusalem and the West Bank has been created by more than
half a century of missed opportunities on both sides, in which the Arab
refusal to come to terms with Jewish statehood has played its part.
Historians will argue uselessly till the end of days over which side
deserves more blame. What is clear is that by redividing Jerusalem in the
way it is about to, Israel is making things worse. No peace is possible
unless the city remains accessible, from both its east and west. At the very
least, during this period of relative calm, Israel must keep its barrier as
open as possible. Sealing in and cutting off the Palestinians of Jerusalem
will only make another descent into violence more likely.


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From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Fri Feb 24 11:55:10 2006
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:55:10 -0000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.49.1147102902.3388.mb-hair@islandlists.com>

to let Americans know about torture being done in their name or the
domestic spying to which their neighbors are being subjected, we won?t
need newspapers anyway. Collections of fairy tales will do. That, it
seems, is a lot of what we?re getting right now anyway -- and that goes
for what they claim are our values.
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size=3D5><B><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">Witch hunts enough to go=20
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<P class=3DMsoNormal style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3D3><FONT=20
face=3D"Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: black">By Joan Chittister=
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style=3D"COLOR: black">ere=92s a story we might need to worry about a bit. =
In 1918=20
during World War I, <I>The New York Times</I> reports, 79 Montanans were=20
convicted of sedition for speaking out =93in ways deemed critical of the=20
<?xml:namespace prefix =3D st1 ns =3D "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:=
smarttags"=20
/><st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">United=20
States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.=94<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT>=
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<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">Forty-=
one of them=20
got prison terms of one to 20 years and were fined from $200 to $20,000. In=
 one=20
case, 12 children of one family were put up for adoption after the father =
went=20
to prison and the family farm failed. One of these children, now 90, is =
still=20
alive. She will be present for the ceremony in which the present governor =
of=20
<st1:State w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Montana</st1:place></st1:=
State>, Brian=20
Schweitzer, pardons these German-Americans, one of whom went to jail for =
saying=20
that the food regulations put in place during the war were a =93big=20
joke.=94<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=
Sedition.=20
Convictions. Jail sentences. Pardons for being critical of government =
policies.=20
Impossible? Don=92t be too sure. It looks as if we could launch a few witch=
 hunts=20
ourselves these days.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">James =
Risen and=20
Eric Lichtblau of <I>The New York Times</I> and Dana Priest of <I>The =
Washington=20
Post</I> were just awarded journalism=92s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize=
, for=20
their stories on our secret torture chambers in Eastern European countries =
and=20
domestic spying on U.S. citizens.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">As I =
understand=20
it, Bill Bennett, former secretary of education, would like, on the other =
hand,=20
to put these three reporters in jail.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=
Bennett was clear=20
in his condemnation of that kind of journalism. He said that the reporters =
=93took=20
classified information, secret information, published it in their =
newspapers,=20
against the wishes of the president, against the request of the president =
and=20
others that they not release it.=94<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=
Nothing to be=20
doubted here. Bennett calls these journalists traitors. He says they ought =
to be=20
in prison rather than picking up prizes.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=93I =
don=92t think=20
what they did was worthy of an award,=94 he said. =93I think what they did =
was=20
worthy of jail. These people who reveal our secrets, who hurt our war =
effort,=20
who hurt the efforts of our CIA, who hurt efforts of the president=92s =
people --=20
they shouldn=92t be given awards for this. They should be looked into (=
through)=20
the Espionage Act.=94<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">He did=
 not,=20
however, say anything about the president=92s =93selective declassification=
=94 --=20
leak, in common parlance -- of classified material for political reasons. =
To=20
bolster his defense of the invasion of <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1=
:place=20
w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the reason for which was=
=20
beginning to unravel, Bush, we know now, had aides leak what to that point =
had=20
been classified but unsubstantiated material. So, we have to assume that if=
=20
Bennett wants reporters in jail for publishing material that =93hurt our =
war=20
effort, hurt the efforts of our CIA, hurt efforts of the president=92s =
people,=94 he=20
must mean the president, too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">Who, =
in fact,=20
endangers the country more: A president by lying about the certain need for=
=20
pre-emptive war, domestic spying or outsourced torture sites or journalists=
 by=20
telling the truth about the corner-cutting on the=20
Constitution?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">After =
all, not=20
only was classified material =93leaked=94 by the president -- former chief =
of staff=20
to the vice president Lewis Libby=92s word, not mine -- it was suspect. =
Knowingly=20
suspect.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">The =
president=92s=20
own intelligence community said it could not be verified. But the president=
 used=20
it anyway to justify what could not be justified. It was error upon error -=
- or=20
treason upon treason -- if we apply Mr. Bennett=92s value system broadly. =
And=20
since Bill Bennett has become the =93Value Czar=94 of the country, probably=
 we=20
should.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">But =
that=92s the=20
obvious -- and almost irrelevant -- part of the situation. The real =
question is=20
what, if anything, will be left of the checks and balance structure of the=
=20
republic if we begin to jail reporters for telling us what we need to know =
to=20
preserve the Constitution and the character of the=20
country.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=
Ironically=20
enough, the very week the Pulitzer Prize was awarded, Mark Felt appeared on=
=20
national TV to discuss his guiding role as =93Deep Throat=94 in exposing =
the=20
Watergate cover-up and the eventual resignation of Richard=20
Nixon.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">=
Question: Should=20
Bernstein and Woodward have gone to jail rather than Chuck Colson, Gordon =
Liddy,=20
and Bob Haldeman, who planned the robbery and, worse, the cover-up by the =
Oval=20
Office?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">Think =
carefully=20
here. The whole future of the country may be at=20
stake.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">What =
will happen=20
to this democracy=92s commitment to the Fourth Estate, that institution of=
=20
protected public voice that emerged out of the French Revolution to act as =
a=20
brake on the human tendency to autocratic pretensions even in republics? If=
 the=20
media are denied the right to uncover and publish acts of government =
wrongdoing,=20
what will happen to democracy itself?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If we =
begin to=20
jail journalists for telling us what we have a right -- a need -- to know =
about=20
the way any given administration is frittering away the Constitution, the=20
nation=92s integrity will at best be the stuff of history. We will be one =
more=20
banana republic governed by successive gangs of opportunists, thugs and=20
despots.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">If =
journalists=20
are denied the right to investigate those who do not investigate themselves=
, how=20
is this country to have any hope of stopping corruption in its tracks, of =
really=20
being the country we have always thought ourselves to=20
be?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=3DMsoNormal=20
style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-=
alt: auto"><SPAN=20
style=3D"COLOR: black"><FONT size=3D4><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">From =
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stand, when it becomes traitorous for an American reporter to let Americans=
 know=20
about torture being done in their name or the domestic spying to which =
their=20
neighbors are being subjected, we won=92t need newspapers anyway. =
Collections of=20
fairy tales will do. That, it seems, is a lot of what we=92re getting right=
 now=20
anyway -- and that goes for what they claim are our=20
values.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML>

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