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...most precious commodity. Between coursework, extracurricular pursuits and the oft-ignored need to sleep at least a little bit each night, taking on anything extra is usually out of the question. But an event that has been unfolding thousands of miles from Cambridge is anything but usual. Atrocities akin to those committed by the Nazis and by the Khmer Rouge occur every day in the civil war pitting Serbs, Croats and Muslims against one another in what was once Yugoslavia...
...straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience) rather than explaining gay angst to the uninitiated. The author and the delighted spectators reflect an evolution in attitude akin to what happened among blacks and women: one generation sought empathy; the next demanded justice; the generation equivalent to Kushner's just flat-out asserted equality and spurned any more debate...
Mosquitoes and other flies that make noise have feathery antennas to pick up low-frequency fly buzzing. Crickets, by contrast, make high-frequency chirps that require mechanisms much akin to eardrums to hear these sounds...
TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S DAUGHTER ALICE used to say that her father longed to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. In SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, a thriller that opened on Broadway last week, actor Stacy Keach achieves something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes...
...many sporting events, wearing enemy colors is akin to suicide. But Sheronas survived, and the mystique of The Game left its mark on the Yale captain...