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Negotiations have apparently broken down only recently. At a rally outside the Faculty Club on April 17, union leaders characterized the negotiations as "a healthy process...
While the first act of "Ordinary People" is depressing, the second act builds the audience's spirits back up, so that by the end a glimmer of hope has actually broken through Conrad's darkness. Unlike his friend Karen, Conrad manages to survive. He sings that he has learned from the people he has met and there are "A lot of things I'd like to change, but I'll take what I can get." In the program, director Victor Chiu asks the audience to remember this as the musical's message: "This Hope. Have faith in it. Take...
...rules. Slobodan Miljkovic, called "Lugar"--the Gamekeeper--would not have been thinking about that when, as eyewitnesses allege, he had 50 Croat and Muslim Bosnian civilians lined up against a wall and took part in shooting 16 of them, when he sliced an old man's throat with a broken chair, when he clubbed and shot another Bosnian man to death, or when he savagely beat a Croat priest and five others with a police baton, a metal wrench and a car jack. From April 17 until Nov. 20, 1992, the witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands of non-Serb residents...
...Bennett Park in 1896, will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
...long made their "peace together." McCain may be our most famous prisoner of the Vietnam War; Ifshin, the most famous protester to go to Hanoi (save Jane Fonda). Ifshin's antiwar sentiments were piped into McCain's cell repeatedly via Radio Hanoi. McCain, who was left hanging by his broken arms for hours a day, shriveled to less than 100 lbs. during his five-year imprisonment. Both men would end up in Washington in 1984: McCain, by then a Congressman sharply critical of Ifshin's antiwar politics; Ifshin, a lawyer working on the Mondale presidential campaign. Two years after that...