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NEIL SIMON, American playwright, after a revival of his play Brighton Beach Memoirs closed a week after it opened...
...tangle of wires and a maze of amplifiers. Sergio M. Ramierez ’10 was tapping beats, M. Andres Camacho ’10 strummed tunes on his guitar, and Tomas (Tommy) Balcetis ‘10, the lead singer, stood in a light blue South Beach t-shirt, ready to belt into the microphone. After light-heartedly strumming out a rock rendition of the jazzy aria “Summertime”, the band members settled down to talk about their music...
...been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could have been a perfect year for a country more accustomed to serving as a battleground in regional power struggles was the fact that Lebanon has had no government since parliamentary elections in June. That was until Monday, when the majority U.S.-backed political bloc and its rivals in the Syria- and Iran-backed minority coalition finally agreed on a new power-sharing Cabinet. But while the deal ends the three-year political crisis that brought...
Hate crimes against Gypsies abound in Europe. In Hungary, at least 30 Molotov cocktail attacks have been perpetrated against Gypsy homes over the past year. Last year in Italy, appalling photos were published showing indifferent sunbathers enjoying a day at the beach a few meters away from two drowned Gypsy girls, who lay dead under towels. In Slovakia, police arrested six Gypsy boys, forced them to remove their clothes, and then demanded that they hit and kiss one another...
Naturally, when Picower's wife found him at the bottom of the pool at their Palm Beach, Fla., home on Oct. 25, speculation about what had happened ran wild. But the county medical examiner quickly ruled that Picower had drowned after suffering a heart attack. His death may ensure that this chapter of the Madoff affair will remain veiled in mystery...