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...Still, at least my cell phone worked. And while it's hard to escape from Colonel Ghaddafi's image or his words - his every statement is read word-for-word on the evening news - every building appears to sport a satellite dish, and the city is dotted with Internet café s where Libyans try to keep up with the modern world from which they've been shut out by U.N. sanctions. Well shut out, up to a point - the Colonel's routine denunciation of the wicked West didn't appear to have deterred the cinema nearest my hotel from...
...that they're easily offended - the Libyans are kind people who smile easily, and they respond with curiosity to outsiders. Probe a little deeper, though, and their feelings are very mixed. On the one hand, their satellite dishes and cell phones and Internet café s signal that they want to be part of the modern world from which they're isolated by sanctions - and from which Libya's rigidly organized social life discourages them from partaking. On the other hand, they feel unjustly victimized by the West, and many are ready to spring, unprompted, to Ghaddafi's defense...
...Many young Libyans prefer to get their news from the Internet rather than the turgid evening news programs filled with slogans and clichés. And yet their conclusions may not be that different from those on the nightly news. In an Internet café where Epson printers are for sale in a glass case, former Libyan Airways employee Mohammed Hussein, who completed an M.A. in the U.S., offers a typical view of the Lockerbie trial. "There was no solid evidence against the two in this case," he says. "It is a verdict that does not make sense. America...
...Korean cars blasting a mix of Western and Arab pop music. Besides a few leftover buildings from the Italian era and a collection of high-rises overlooking the sea, Tripoli's architecture consists mostly of the dull and functional. But the corniche is wide, well paved and clean, with cafés and colored parasols and some children's toboggans, jungle gyms and a merry-go-round. With an epic leap of the imagination, one can almost be reminded of the French Riviera - except that the promenade looks out only onto Tripoli's sleepy harbor...
...Small caf tables and chairs are placed on the set to create the ambiance of a dance hall and to allow audience members to become a part of the production itself. Augustine and Walsh also introduce the use of two clowns, played by Thomas Odell '04 and Sophia Chang '01-dressed in fantastic costumes of over-sized shoes, tutus and striped stockings-who carry large signs with messages such as "The First Kiss." These signs aided the transitions of the musical, while the whimsy of their bearers keeps them from being perceived as simple plot devices...