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LIFE AFTER SENATE
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Bingaman still tackling energy issues
Summer fun for some tech-savvy kids means learning to put their computer skills to work.
Retired senator says he won’t seek office By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
Jeff Bingaman never has been known as a publicity hound. During his 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate,
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he developed a solid reputation as a behind-the-scenes workhorse completely uninterested in the national spotlight. So it seems fitting that Bingaman is able to quietly go about his business these days, even in a building full of reporters. For the past few weeks, Bingaman
has been working out of a downtown office in the The New Mexican building. Last week, he agreed to talk with a reporter in his new office. “This is just a place I can answer my email and work on this project,” said Bingaman, 69.
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19 killed battling Arizona wildfire
OPERA REVIEW: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Fast-moving blaze overtakes Hot Shot crews from Prescott city department
By Jacques Billeaud and John Marshall
The Associated Press
Pert, fresh-toned soprano Lisette Oropesa made everyone fall in love with her right from the outset in her company debut as Susanna in The Santa Fe Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro. PHOTOS COURTESY KEN HOWARD
sfo spins mozart’s magic By James M. Keller
IF you go
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udience members were greeted by a familiar sight as they took their seats Saturday night for the first performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in The Santa Fe Opera’s new season: a stage studded with blooming stems — phlox, perhaps — that represent the garden in which the work’s machinations would conclude four acts later. This is indeed the same production the company offered in 2008, when it was created by director Jonathan Kent, but for its revival it has been subtly transformed and improved by Bruce Donnell, whom the program now credits as its sole director. It was a good production to begin with, elegantly conceived in 1780s style. Apart from the garden, Paul Brown’s sets include paneled rooms for much of the coming and going and, for the Countess’ boudoir, a room dense with dark-silver rococo filigree. Brown’s period costumes make everyone look like they’ve stepped out of a painting by Greuze, and Duane Schuler’s lighting trains the eye on what might otherwise be overlooked, particularly essential in the nocturnal conclusion. Nonetheless, some conceptions in the
Oropesa and Susanna Phillips, as Countess Almaviva, perform a scene from Figaro.
original production begged to be cleaned up. The most egregious error in 2008 involved the Countess, who had been made to behave despondently in Act II, flailing about disheveled in her dressing gown, practically tearing her hair out. Donnell has rectified that, and she now commands the audience’s respect with far greater
dignity — a woman demeaned by her husband, but who has fully assumed the nobility that came with her now-unhappy marriage. Since most of the cast is new to the production, they needed to master how to convey their complicated interactions
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YARNELL, Ariz. — Gusty, hot winds blew an Arizona blaze out of control Sunday in a forest northwest of Phoenix, overtaking and killing 19 members of an elite fire crew in the deadliest wildfire involving firefighters in the U.S. for at least 30 years. The Hot Shot crews were forced to deploy their emergency fire shelters — tent-like structures meant to shield firefighters from flames and heat — when they were caught near the central Arizona town of Yarnell, state forestry spokesman Art Morrison told The Associated Press. The flames lit up the night sky in the forest above the town, and smoke from the blaze could be smelled for miles. The fire started after a lightning strike on Friday and spread to 2,000 acres on Sunday amid triple-digit temperatures, low humidity and windy conditions. Officials ordered the evacuations of 50 homes in several communities, and later Sunday afternoon, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office expanded the order to include more residents in Yarnell, a town of about 700 residents about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix. Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said that the 19 firefighters were a part of the city’s fire department.
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Santa Fe Bandstand Balladeer J. Michael Combs, noon; Strolling Scones, classic ’60s pop and psychedelia, 6 p.m.; Los Wise Guys, oldies/country/rock, 7:15 p.m.; on the Plaza, santafebandstand.org.
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Protesters: ‘By hook or crook, we will bring Morsi down’ Egyptian president’s inauguration anniversary marked by clashes, but leader says he won’t step down Index
By Hamza Hendawi, Maggie Michael and Sarah El Deeb The Associated Press
CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace, filling a broad avenue for blocks, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the most massive protests Egypt has seen in two and a half years of turmoil.
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In a sign of the explosive volatility of the country’s divisions, young protesters mainly from the surrounding neighborhood pelted the main headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood with stones and firebombs, and at one point a fire erupted at the gates of the walled villa. During clashes, Brotherhood supporters barricaded inside opened fire on the attackers, and activists said at least five protesters were killed.
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At least five more anti-Morsi protesters were killed Sunday in clashes and shootings in southern Egypt. Fears were widespread that the collisions between the two sides could grow more violent in coming days. Morsi made clear through a spokesman that he would not step down, and his Islamist supporters vowed not to allow protesters to remove one of their own, brought to office in a legitimate vote.
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Egyptian protesters chant slogans against Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi during a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday.
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