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...often risky to attempt to change and alter a famous piece of literary work, especially Shakespeare’s, and the results are hit or miss. But if taking risks will result in plays like A Counterfeit Presentment then one can only hope that more people will take the chance...
California Democrat Zoe Lofgren characterizes Graham?s bill as an attempt "to alter the Constitution through statute." Thursday, Lofgren, who also sponsored an unsuccessful alternative to Graham?s 1999 bill, presented a rider that would have enhanced penalties for anyone who attacks a pregnant woman (whether the pregnancy was known to the attacker or not), but would have classified such an act as a single-victim crime. Voted down in 1999, Lofgren?s alternative was defeated Thursday as well...
Additionally, American sports can't be entirely detached from the context that surrounds them. There are reasons why the Fighting Illini attract more scrutiny than the Fighting Irish. There is painful and unfortunate history there, and its effects alter what the nicknames really mean...
...dramatic escalation - Palestinians firing mortars from Gaza into Israel; Israel for the first time reoccupying territory ceded to Arafat under the Oslo agreement - neither Sharon nor Arafat has a strategy to transcend the increasingly violent impasse. Arafat can harass and occasionally provoke the Israelis, but he can't alter the strategic balance; Sharon can pound and pummel Arafat's resources but he can't subdue Palestinian militancy. So even as violence increases, politically the situation remains at a stalemate. And that's likely to mean Secretary of State Powell will find himself devoting more of his time than...
DIED. ED (BIG DADDY) ROTH, 69, dotty hot-rodder whose cartoon alter ego, "Rat Fink," glared at convention and Mickey Mouse; of a heart attack; in Manti, Utah. He was called "the most capricious" of car customizers by Tom Wolfe...