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These efforts, however, have not silenced critics. Says Ben White of the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose members take to the seas to disrupt whale and dolphin captures: "Yes, captive dolphins educate, but it's bad education. It tells people it is O.K. to keep these animals and make them do tricks...
...accusations and finger pointing give many Flight 103 families the sense of being trapped in an impenetrable web of international politics and terrorism. Says Eleanor Bright, whose husband Nick died over Lockerbie: "I feel as if I've been dropped in the middle of a bad spy novel." Among the disclosures...
...Good Men is at least as good a play as The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which it resembles. The production is adroit, and its subject -- the degree to which the military is properly subordinate to civilian values -- has never ceased to be topical. But it suffers from bad timing. Plays that are in essence debates need each side to be able to make a reasonable case. In this conflict between career military "defenders" and soon-to-be-civilian attorneys over the rights of the accused, the imbalance is not in the play but in the minds of audiences. The flood...
...killings and imprisonment of dissidents at SWAPO detention camps that emerged during the campaign. Nujoma was also blamed for ordering his armed troops to return last April in contravention of a U.N. cease-fire; 300 of them were killed by waiting South African forces. Nujoma tried to counteract the bad publicity with a conciliation offensive. He met with South African officials, released white doves at rallies to symbolize peace and reassured the country that SWAPO "has no intention of imposing our views on others." Now that the elections have bound SWAPO to a broad-based assembly, those white doves...
...wrenching sense of disfranchisement and weakness, as their once adequate annual buying budgets of $2 million to $5 million are turned to chicken feed by art inflation. "There are many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight is an annual booklet that used to be titled Notable Acquisitions. In 1986 it was renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe...