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Williamstown Theatre Festival in western Massachusetts offers a summer program that has been called "theater boot camp." British-trained actor Roger Rees is the company's new artistic director.

The American company Chevron faces disruptions -- big and small -- in its oil operations on a regular basis. The source of the trouble is a Niger Delta population that says it is not benefitting from the oil industry. Locals say the government and multinationals are colluding to keep the spoils for themselves.

Karen Grigsby Bates offers an appreciation of Ebony publisher John Johnson, who died last week at the age of 87. Johnson created a legacy by insisting that ads in Ebony feature black models.

In Seoul, three stories above street level, a cafe caters both to people and to dogs. As the human clientele sip drinks and slurp noodles, the canine clientele eat dog food and just about anything else.

Airline officials in Greece say passengers on a Cypriot jetliner may already have been dead when their plane crashed into a mountainside Sunday. The crash killed all 121 people on board, which makes it the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

The movie Asylum opens this weekend. It's an "erotic thriller" starring Natasha Richardson, Marton Czokas and Ian McKellen. It joins a long tradition of cinematic portrayals of mental hospitals, most of which are pretty off base.

On the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, the Japanese people are of two minds, willing to acknowledge, as Prime Minister Koizumi did, that Japan inflicted great harm and suffering on the people of Asia during World War II. But many also admit to feeling pride in Japanese accomplishments before and after the war.

Atlanta's City Council passes an ordinance to ban panhandling within part of downtown Atlanta. Business leaders urged the ban, saying they want more tourists to visit downtown Atlanta. Homeless advocates say the ban is unconstitutional and the city should be doing more to help the homeless. Susanna Capelouto of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.

Republicans on a House comittee say they want to begin a preliminary investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). But Democrats seem unlikely to accept the inquiry until new, lenient ethics rules are revised. They say new rules put in place by the GOP leadership were designed to protect DeLay.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines, has approved the re-nomination of two judges. The vote sets the stage for a showdown in the Senate over whether Democrats have the right to block some of President Bush's judicial nominees with filibusters.