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...same can be said of most activities on campus, of course. The water polo team probably never attracts more than a smattering of people beyond its core fan base. But whereas a sport can thrive on a small but dedicated set of adherents, theater is apt to die from such a situation. Perhaps die is too strong a word, for this death depends on one's vision of the function of theater. If theater is to function strictly as a form of entertainment then it doesn't really matter whether you're entertaining the same 20 people or a different...
...antithesis 5. One with an "Esq." tag 6. Business-card abbr. 7. Poet's preposition 8. '70s lottery org. 9. Bring to ruin 10. Clinton called Giuliani "a tool of the right-wing __ machine" 11. Make public 12. Help a checker 15. Is afflicted with 17. Islamic title 19. Apt. feature, in classifieds 20. Billionaire Broad, who has donated $1 million to the Democratic National Convention committee 21. Either Griffey 23. Luau offering 25. Sound of awe 26. La __ Tar Pits 27. Omaha Beach craft 28. "Caught you!" 29. Cook in a microwave 32. One in a pen, perhaps...
Axelrod found that players are most apt to gravitate to this system when they are likely to encounter the other players again. Without this "shadow of the future," there is every incentive to cheat--to drink but not share blood or, in the case of the stock market, to dump your shares at the first sign of a panic. So the larger and more anonymous the situation, the greater the incentive to be selfish...
They say history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. But sometimes it manages both the first time around. Brit Bob Hoskins is a surprisingly apt choice for the Panamanian kleptocrat, whom he plays as a cruel yet pathetic schemer--a lower-class striver who in another life might have become a crooked appliance salesman or sticky-fingered union boss. This playful film teases out the inherent absurdity in the dictator's fall (this was a man besieged by U.S. troops blaring bad pop music to drive him out of his Vatican-embassy refuge) without trivializing his predations...