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Gheri Dosti: An Evening of Plays with a South Asian Bent...
...first glance, Gheri Dosti: An Evening of Plays with a South Asian Bent ;-) is a baby with seriously mismatched parents. What led the South Asian Association (SAA) to team up with the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) to produce a project of this magnitude—a professionally run show with a four-week running time? After all, these two student groups are on opposite ends of the spectrum; one celebrates tradition, the other breaks with...
...when you’ve got a “South Asian Bent,” it’s easy to spice up such stale material—by discussing, for example, how India still has laws to prevent what it calls “sex against the order of nature.” Gheri Dosti’s playwright and director Paul Knox discovered the complications caused for gays by the hostility of a tradition-bound society while he was exploring issues of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Adding considerably to the show’s pathos, the five...
...psychology of the Iraqi people" to become willing suicide bombers. In Washington's view, the troublemakers are foreign terrorists, either al-Qaeda operatives or returning members of the al-Qaeda--linked Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Many Iraqis blame the big hits on an influx of Arab Islamists bent on holy war. Observers say unknown numbers have slipped into Iraq from Iran, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The declining influence of Saddam's loyalists has apparently emboldened Iraq's Islamist groups to begin coordinating with foreign fighters eager to battle America. "They are coming into Iraq through many gates," says...
...minutes later, the Crimson did convert when Sedgwick sent a long ball to junior forward Alisha Moran, who cut back toward the middle of the field and bent a shot into the top right corner...