Theater & the Arts
Inter Press Service (IPS), Nov 15, 2007
New York stages are filled with strong women asserting themselves forcefully in musicals and classic comedy — forms that speak to the popular culture. 
Five current hit plays that depict strong women are Legally Blonde, Avenue Q, Xanadu, George Bernard Shaw’s classic, Pygmalion and Curtains.
Let’s start with the young college girls in Legally Blonde, a stage remake of a popular 2001 film that was part of the post-feminist girl power movement, when young women were fighting a men are what matter backlash that threatened their chances for career and independence.
Blog
Nov 3, 2007
Learning of General Pervez Musharraf‘s declaration of emergency rule (martial law) in Pakistan, I can‘t help but recall the gushing introduction of the general made by Citigroup honcho and Democratic financial eminence grise Robert Rubin when the dictator, who came to power in a military coup, spoke at the Sept 25, 2006 meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. 
Rubin urged the audience to “understand a great deal more than those in our country tend to know about Pakistan, the Muslim world, the meaning of democracy in the context of countries very different from our own.”
Rubin‘s obsequious comments might be connected to the fact that Musharraf had appointed a top Citigroup official to be his finance minister, giving the bank privileged entrée into the country.
A question now for Robert Rubin: Just how do you fit martial law into your expansive meaning of democracy?
