Word: cannot
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...pages, working as a bar tender constantly apart from the customers. Each of these experiences is one of separation, of losing touch with humanity, each is a symbol of loneliness and sadness, sometimes even regret or despair. At the heart of this dehumanizing sentiment lies New York, and one cannot avoid the feeling that the authors are trying to blame their unhappiness on the city itself as if the buildings, the dark allies, the cabbies or the glamorous but cold parties were the root of every human problem. Detachment, perhaps the most universal theme of this century, leads slowly...
...second half of Slavs! begins exchanges dark humor for just plain darkness, but the exchange is an important one. Jessica Shapiro '00, playing a "mutant" little Siberian girl named Vodya who cannot speak due to radiation poisoning, gives a haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot...
...cannot, in good conscience, live in a placewhere women are permitted in men's rooms, andwhere visiting men can traipse through the commonhalls on the women's floors--in various stages ofundress--in the middle of the night," Hack wrotein a New York Times opinion piece Sept...
...government's concern too nip in the bud any signs of Islamic militancy. "It appears the Tanzanians have had these people under surveillance for some time and are using the bombing as a pretext to arrest them," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. A Tanzanian official's statement that "we cannot say we have got somebody who is really responsible" but "we think we are doing well" underlines the grounds for skepticism. U.S. investigators continue to probe for the forensic evidence crucial to establishing a "fingerprint" modus operandi that could help identify the bombers: Reports from Nairobi that the terrorists used...
...sins of the Old World seep across the New as blood across a sheet. Vittorio Innocente--the name itself doesn't travel light--lives unanchored in a Toronto of immigrants, with nothing, as he says, but his freedom. Driving around town in his late father's Oldsmobile, he cannot slough off his mother's infidelity and the out-of-wedlock child she bore, while dying herself, on the passage to America...