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...Smith burst into the national consciousness with Fires in the Mirror, which played off-Broadway and around the U.S., became a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for PBS. That piece took on a confined conflict between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn. Her new Twilight tackles the complex sociology of the Los Angeles riots. After a spellbinding debut there, it has been revised and restaged for an off-Broadway run starting next week, with a transfer to Broadway planned for April...
...president, who has traditionally held only a ceremonial position. Until recently, the two heads of state had a contentious relationship. The Times reports that on one occasion a while back, the prime minister made fun of the president at a public gathering, causing the latter such shame that he burst into tears, covered his face with his hands, jumped off the dais and ran away...
Rene Reyes '95, a Lowell delegate and former council treasurer, said he saw no particular reason for the sudden burst of interest in serving the council. He said he believed each candidate developed an interest in the council this fall...
What made the mortar shell that burst in Sarajevo's central market that Saturday morning different from the innumerable other rounds that have slammed into the Bosnian capital over the previous 22 months? "Strategically it meant nothing," says a senior U.S. diplomat. But the grisly footage broadcast round the globe showing 68 people blown to bits while peacefully shopping made for peculiarly revolting television. The timing of the attack, seemingly planned to kill the greatest possible number of innocent civilians, dramatized the brutality of the war all over again to a world populace that had grown benumbed to reports...
...Ryan stepped out of an open limousine, Harvard fans who had paraded with her around Holyoke Center that afternoon burst into cheers...