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...slant and I have conservative chums who use the show to do opposition research. Washington and Hollywood have always enjoyed a clandestine courtship with one another. Now after eight years of the most telegenic and show biz savvy presidential administration in the history of the republic and against the backdrop of cutthroat 24/7 cable news coverage these two power towns are flaunting their romance in public...
Against the backdrop of yet another Palestinian suicide bombing (this time, a failed attempt outside Jerusalem), U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni continues work to bridge the gap between Israeli and Palestinian versions of a cease-fire plan. It doesn't appear to be getting any narrower. The Palestinians are in no hurry to close a deal - they even called off a new round of truce talks scheduled for Monday night. Yasser Arafat and his aides appear to believe that the U.S. and Ariel Sharon currently need a cease-fire a lot more than he does, and he's going...
Against that backdrop, and with Washington sending Zinni back to the region, it makes sense for Sharon to offer at least an opening for negotiations. And therein lies the region's only hope. The alternative is continued escalation of the mutual bludgeoning as each side tries to bloody the other into submission. In the Knesset's cafeteria last week, Sharon asserted, "In the current situation, it's either them or us." But it is never only one side that suffers. It is always both...
...purpose of adapting a work of art is to allow for its universal themes to emerge in a context readily identifiable and relevant for audiences. In transporting the action of George Bizet’s opera Carmen from 19th-century Seville to the tumultuous backdrop of the free trade protests in Quebec and post-September 11 Wall Street, Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) new adaptation fails to shed light on the complex, weighty issues of free trade and globalization, while confusing and compromising the dramatic appeal of the opera itself
Given that as a backdrop, Walton’s hopes for an NCAA berth may sound like a captain’s blind exuberance, but that’s not the case...