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...brought to Common Casting.ACT ONE“There are many parallels to Shakespeare,” Spillane-Hinks says to one actor. “It’s a beautiful, poetic way of writing.”For the affable Spillane-Hinks, Pizza Q is a relaxed affair among friends, full of laughs and hugs; and yet, when talking to those few roaming actors at the under-attended event, she is sure to emphasize the play’s selling points and try to give it a more universal appeal.Spillane-Hinks and her producers mill about the Loeb...
...next day, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari fired back, saying the formation of the government is strictly an Iraqi affair. ?When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is ?no, we do not want a sectarian government-not because the U.S. ambassador says so or issues a warning,? he told a news conference. ?We do not need anybody to remind us, thank...
...Lorand Matory, professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies, says that the Shleifer affair had long been whispered about, but in part because the economics department closed ranks around both Shleifer and Summers, few spoke out about it. Until now. ?People were coming out of the woodwork,? he says. The article has been forwarded around campus for weeks, and the ethics issues surrounding the Shliefer case were on many people?s minds, including Abernathy?s. He took the microphone and asked Summers about the allegations raised by the article. But Summers, a longtime confidant of Shliefer - not to mention...
...daily intelligence briefing at the White House is a secret, serious affair, conducted each morning for the President in the Oval Office by the experts in charge of knowing as much as possible about as much as possible. The President routinely asks what's going on in some of the darkest corners of the world. But last week George W. Bush's concerns included what was going on in an office down the hall, where Vice President Dick Cheney had been lying low since shooting his friend Harry Whittington in a late afternoon quail hunt in Texas over the weekend...
...costly yet important lesson: it's always good to know exactly what you're paying for. Jo Matsumoto Fujisawa, Japan Cowboys in Love The critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain is well deserved [Jan. 30]. It takes a courageous filmmaker to tackle the subject of a love affair between two men. Like many, I was awed by the depth of the movie and its characters. But I am concerned about gay men who continue to carry on homosexual affairs while married to women who have no knowledge of their husbands' extramarital activities. While many people are moved...