Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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The Pope resigns too old. A writer claims old age is blissful liberation. Kinglier theatrically

promises to crawl unburthened unto death. I grow old, I grow old, as someone once said.

How do each of us and all of us imagine being old? Well, with care for the elderly and the

pontiff's departure in the headlines, Nightwaves asks, when are we old and how have we imagined

it in literature? Also, an interview with a man who's received death threats in his own country

for denying that Jewish people are a people

or have any right to feel morally superior.

It has to be clear.

We came there. They didn't come there. We came.

My parents came there.

Europe pushed us out from Europe and threw us on the

backs of the Palestinian. This is the reality. This is history. More from Shlomo Sands later in

I think what the Foreign Office calls a spirited interview. But first, a chorus line, a musical about

dance, an art form almost as brief and bright as life itself.

This is the first London production since 76,

and it's a full Broadway number.

One singular sensation, every little step he takes

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