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Those words come from a statement released by blind Cuban lawyer Juan Carlos González Leiva this past July. Through his wife, Marítza Calderin Columbié, he has been smuggling out such messages ever since his incarceration in March 2002. In his most recent letter, dated Sept. 16, he reports that prison officials are “releasing chemical or biological substances [in his cell]…that are making me progressively very...
...section?" The buyer says he had nothing of interest to tell the interrogators; his group, he insists, had long ago quit the weapons-of-mass-destruction business. As they pressed him about what he purchased and for whom, it seemed to him that "it was just like the blind man clutching for someone's hand to hold." After three days he was blindfolded, taken back into the city and released...
Take Craig Wilson's Recent Tragic Events, another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice...
Those who are looking for the classic Steve Winwood of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith and his solo albums, Back in the High Life and Roll With It, will be disappointed with Winwood’s performance. Instead, his show is based on his new album, About Time, the newest step in Winwood’s continuous maturation. This time, the Hammond B-3 organ is the center of the album, which allows him new ways to experiment and continue his exploration of his diverse influences. Watch him break new ground. 7 p.m. Tickets from...
...KSG’s administration—that the only nations whose flags could be represented at the ceremony were those recognized by the U.S. State Department—is embarrassing. The KSG is supposed to teach its students to think critically and make good policy, not to be blind apparatchiks to Washington. The State Department may have compelling political reasons not to include the Palestinian Authority on its list of independent states, but Secretary of State Colin L. Powell can’t set the curriculum in Cambridge...