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...This adaptation of the Hugh Wheeler libretto (from Christopher Bond's play) is both faithful and liberating. The story, of a bitter man in 19th century London who has lost his wife and child and determines to carve out his revenge, has never seemed so human or so bleak. It's no longer just a Guignol songfest, staring at its creatures, with fascination but not pity, from an Olympian distance above the cage in which they claw at one another. Inside this sarcophagus of a play, beneath Sondheim's cold-steel lyrics, Burton finds a pulsing, mournful heart...
This is when running for President gets really hard. A bleak, windy Sunday morning in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The local roads are ice. As John Edwards enters the community-college cafeteria, his campaign workers are picking up rows of chairs--to make sure the media don't shoot the empty seats. Edwards trudges through his stump speech--the least engaged I've ever seen him--and specifically asks the sparse gathering for questions about the issues he considers important: health care, global warming, poverty, the economy. There are none such. The questions are odd, off point. A Native American accuses...
...percent against the pound and 10 percent against the euro, hitting record lows. At press time, one euro was worth 1.46 dollars, according to the Bloomberg currency exchange. Students abroad this term made their decision to leave last March, when the outlook wasn’t quite so bleak. Christina L. Elmore ’09 said that when she changed her study abroad destination from Argentina to Spain, she considered the exchange rate, but didn’t think it would make a major difference. “I knew it would be a little more expensive...
Perhaps only the icy winter wind that swept the bleak ruins of eastern Europe really understood?the wind that moaned through an emptiness where once people had turned up their coat-collars against the cold, young men who dreamed of great careers, young girls who dreamed of sons. There would be no careers and no sons now, for the girls and the boys were gone...
...market. Ever since the American invasion, poppy production has climbed back up. Additionally, she contends that the terrorist training camps attributed to the Taliban were actually created under the mujahideen, the very same people the US helped to reinstall in its invasion. Gannon ends the book with a rather bleak epilogue, calling on the West to forgo its hypocritical rhetoric and contradictory policies toward Muslim countries and their non-Muslim neighbors, which, she argues, only create the appearance that the War on Terror is, in fact, a War on Islam.Perhaps when the West learns to look at itself as critically...