July 12, 2005

Ben Brantley reviews one-man play Primo, National Theater of Great Britain production based on Primo Levi's memoir If This Is a Man, directed by Richard Wilson and adapted by and starring Antony Sher; photo (M)

Once again, the future of the space shuttle program will be carried on the wings of the Discovery. The shuttle sits on a launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center here, redesigned and re-evaluated from the top of its giant orange fuel tank to the bottom of its engine nozzles.

Article on aggressive and focused marketing campaign being undertaken to promote this year's Lincoln Center Festival, which celebrates Western and non-Western artistic forms; festival, perhaps more than any other in city, relies on enthusiasm of local foreign residents; festival relies on fliers placed in ethnic communities, specialists from foreign countries who bring in steady stream of performers to US and ticket kiosks in local bookstores, mobile phone shops and large neighborhood theaters; photos (M)

Evangelical Christians are growing force in Air Force chaplain corps, illustrated by recent government-financed 'Spiritual Fitness Conference' at which hundreds of chaplains held evangelical services and workshops and scanned material from organizations like Focus on the Family; photos; chaplains, who pledge to minister to everyone in military, come increasingly from evangelical and Pentecostal churches, as numbers from Catholic and mainline Protestant denominations decline; tensions emerge when chaplains whose teachings emphasize proselytizing encounter growing number of enlistees who are from minority religions or are atheists; Gen John P Jumper issues warning against proselytizing, view shared by deputy chief of chaplains Brig Gen Cecil R Richardson, himself an evangelical (M)

Bush White House, which said in past that any official who leaked name of CIA agent Valerie Plame would be fired, and also said Karl Rove and other senior aides had nothing to do with 2003 disclosure, refuses to answer questions about new evidence of Rove's role in matter; Sen Harry Reid and other Democrats demand full account; press secretary Scott McClellan, in two contentious briefings, declines to repeat promise to dismiss leaker or to say when Pres Bush learned of Rove's role; questions follow Newsweek report that Rove talked with Time reporter Matthew Cooper about CIA agent, without identifying her, after Plame's husband, Joseph C Wilson IV, debunked Bush claim about Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program; Rove refuses comment and continues policy work at White House; Bush and McClellan comments in past recalled; photos (M)