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...these phrases have become so ingrained in our culture that it is hard to look at them differently. I looked at the word, what the characters were thinking and doing, and just let the blocking come from that. In the “To be or not to be?? speech, all of it has been cut except the first line and the last line, it gives it a different approach. It prevents the audience from reciting the lines along with the actor, they have to ask themselves: “How is this different...
...invisible hand”: how many fables are structured around the foolishness of mortals grasping at immortality? There’s just something about being young that makes us seem one step farther away from the inevitable, that makes us to appear—however irrational that belief might be??to have that much more time left. Modern society, for all of its benefits, can do little more to assuage an age-old fear of death than to dress it up in cosmetics and collagen...
...women and children are slaughtered. We are not man enough to buck up, take responsibility, and send an army down to impose our will, or to simply admit, honestly, that the events do not concern us, and that the time and money are better spent at home. This would be??gasp!—imperialistic, or it would be callous. It would not be easy, and we need it to be easy...
However, American news sources are remarkably unsophisticated in their understanding of the reality on the ground, in a way that seems consistently to paint Israel and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) as black as can be??rather than admit the grayness of the situation. The restrictions and humiliations inflicted on Palestinians that have often been described are, unfortunately, quite accurate. Nor can anyone debate the disparity in numbers of dead and wounded, or the sad, inevitable results of a clash between violent Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli army. American media have given extensive coverage to the ugly realities...
...excused by the fact that both candidates' reservations about equal rights are premised primarily on their hesitancy to officially sanction committed, monogamous homosexual relationships as marriages. Noting that Lieberman is "open to taking some action that will address… unfairness" towards homosexuals and that Cheney "[tries] to be??tolerant of homosexual relationships," such commentators claim that the only thing preventing the candidates from unequivocally supporting equal rights was an inconsequential semantic reluctance to call homosexual unions "marriages...