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...Straight plays are where I feel most comfortable,” says Hodgson. His roles in straight plays have included Dopey in “Balm of Gilead,” Rosencrantz in “Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead,” and Derby in “Richard...
...fear that the U.S., absorbed by the Islamic world and a desire to rebuild its relations with Europe, spends too little time thinking about the region. For an Asia left to its own devices, where China and Japan are allowed to intensify their rivalry without Washington spreading its mediating balm, would be a dangerous place indeed. That's blindingly obvious...
...southern Philippines and southern Thailand. So long as such conflicts persist, with the perception that Muslims are suffering persecution, existing and new radical groups will find it easy to recruit members. For the governments of Southeast Asia, there is no agenda item so important as finding a healing balm for long-festering sores in the region. If that is not done, the threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia?directed at local and Western targets?will continue to darken the next four years as it has the past three...
...religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeezethe fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious communitythe Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communionis real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
...religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeeze-the fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious community-the Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communion-is real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...