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...situation. So basically what it involves is just letting an audience know from the beginning that it's okay for them to laugh. After the first night we put in a little sort of schtick at the beginning with Dan[iel J.] Goor ['97], who plays the butler, who sort of comes out and does a sort of little funny thing. I'll let it be a surprise...
First, in Levy's nine-plus years as coach, he has never called a meeting four hours ahead of their usual 1 p.m. schedule. Never has he brought general manager John Butler and owner Ralph Wilson along to chat about strategy from the previous game...
This communal catastrophe is beginning to breed unconventional and disquieting responses. A forthcoming article in the Yale Law Review by Paul Butler, a law professor at George Washington University, reports that inner-city juries are increasingly acquitting black men they know to be guilty. "They do a cost/benefit analysis," he says. "They look at this person and decide, 'As a community, we're better off with this person out of jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands...
...HOUR! COLIN POWELL. PRESIDENT to be or not to be? A black man in the White House. The time has come. GUNVER BUTLER La Crescenta, California
KAZUO ISHIGURO'S THE REMAINS of the Day (1989) is an astonishing novel in several regards. Its narrator, an aging and obsessively punctilious butler named Stevens, sets out in 1956 on a motoring trip; he wants to persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near...