Well, with Day of Defeat 3.0 coming out at 7pmEST tonight, and my flying to Norfolk, VA for a family reunion tomorrow morning at 7am, updates will be intermittent this weekend. (Berk will be here with dogsitter, but alas, he cannot type.) So, see y’all next week.
Month: July 2002
The bluff is called.
The US backs down on its earlier threat to remove peacekeepers from Bosnia and is now trying to negotiate a 12-month exemption from the ICC.
Beren and Luthien Pas de Deux.
Artists and dancers from Butler University have composed and choreographed a Tolkien ballet, The Simaril. (More here.)
Do as I Say, Not as I Do.
Dubya calls for the end of a corporate loophole he himself profited from back in his Harken days. Meanwhile, this being an election year (and since I’m sure their profiles aren’t doing so hot right now), the Senate voted unanimously on several measures to curtail corporate malfeasance, a number of which go further than Dubya desired.
Bond, Campion Bond.
Jason Isaacs (Black Hawk Down, The Patriot) joins The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Campion Bond.
Heirs of Toumai.
Archaeologists discover a surprising new ancestor in the Djurab desert.
Drug War Armistice.
In a burst of common sense the likes of which we’re probably not going to see Stateside for some time to come (except maybe in Nevada), Britain relaxes its cannabis laws to focus on more dangerous drugs.
Running for Cover.
“In the long run, there’s no capitalism without conscience. There is no wealth without character.” I dunno, Mr. President…you seemed to do pretty well for yourself. In his much-anticipated speech yesterday, Dubya tried to put the brakes on the Wall Street sell-off and quell the growing questions surrounding his own stock shadiness (timeline here.) Needless to say, it didn’t seem to work.
Suicide Kings.
In deciding to pay big bucks to keep emerging superstar Mike Bibby at point for the Sacramento Kings, the Maloof brothers are making a significant gamble that may end up as a lithmus test of the respective importance of basketball vs. business decisions for small-market clubs.
Swans and Toddlers.
Gillian gets a very positive review in the NYT for her performance as Odette/Odile (the lead) in Swan Lake over the weekend. No mention is made of the ridiculously bratty kid who was screaming through most of Act II, nor of the overly reactive shushs and gasps of utter disbelief made by most of the ballet cognoscenti at the child’s behavior. Gill and her partner (Jose Carreno) were real troopers through it, though, and it definitely got the crowd even more behind them for the rest of the show.