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...Antenna aquiver for false notes, she checks in at the abortion clinic and doesn't like its casually clinical attitude. This kid can hear false notes pitched too high for most human ears to discern. So she checks out the alternative press and finds an ad placed by a couple seeking adoption. The Lorings (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) are rich, welcoming and ostensibly eager for the fulfillment their biology has denied them. OK, she's a little uptight, and underneath his charm there's something elusive about him. But still, given the limited alternatives available to Juno they qualify...
...Dakin holds students partly responsible for the state of dance at Harvard, and suggests that they could be doing more. With so many student groups competing for rehearsal space, she decries the lack of any “rational, professional, responsible” plan to turn “ad hoc” individual groups into a coherent force for recognition. “[Dance groups] schedule with no respect for the other groups,” says Dakin. “Quite frankly, the division is extremely detrimental. The basic field is the basic field. It?...
...English department professor,” says Senelick. He adds that before the A.R.T. took over the space, all the productions were student-run. “People had the chance to fail,” says Senelick, who directed his own share of productions. From this ad hoc, self-driven environment came the likes of John A. Lithgow ’67, Stockard Channing ’65, and Peter M. Sellars ’80.While the environment was conducive to independence, students had nowhere to turn to learn the practical theater arts in an academic setting. This dilemma...
HILLARY CLINTON, on Leeland Eisenberg, who took hostages at one of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign offices on Nov. 30. Frustrated that he could not afford mental-health treatment, Eisenberg went to the office after seeing a Clinton health-care campaign ad...
...diplomatic pressure has been embraced only reluctantly, if at all, by Bush and Cheney. Even when the President does get behind an initiative, as he did with the recent Annapolis conference to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there is an ad hoc, unprepared quality to the effort - a transparent, last-minute rush to cobble together a legacy. What the NIE makes plain is that diplomacy, combined with the threat of international sanctions, has much greater potential when applied to the Iranians than it has ever had in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To be sure, dealing with the Iranians...