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...show, written by Aphra Behn and directed by Partick Demers, runs a somewhat lengthy three hours but keeps a brisk pace throughout. It chronicles the complex misadventures of a group of Englishmen as they experience a variety of romantic troubles. Though the play was first performed in 1677, the plot seems strikingly modern—relationship problems are always relevant...
...didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. But the Koran is also enjoying brisk sales. In seeking intellectual and emotional resources for coping with the crisis no material seems too esoteric, no subject so “specialized” as to be off-limits to the curious layperson...
...brisk morning several weeks ago, I trekked up Garden Street to the Registrar’s Office in order to glimpse the recent past through my House file...
...fitness obsessed president's workouts which he and his aides credit with helping him stay measured through the crisis. To ward off jet lag from the trip, Bush had hopped on the tread mill aboard Air Force One on the way over and sprinted at a brisk 400 miles an hour while he flew over the Pacific Ocean. By the time Bush huddled with aides to discuss what he would say to reporters, he made it clear he didn't need tutoring. "Don't worry about it," he said according to one who was there. "I know what...
...breezy, brisk morning last spring, as Dan Whitener was tying down his single-engine plane at the Martin Campbell Airport in the tiny mining town of Copperhill, Tenn., an unfamiliar airplane landed. Two Middle Eastern-looking men climbed out, and the shorter one quizzed Whitener. "So, tell me about this chemical plant I just flew over...