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...most spellbinding, intricate, beautiful, moving and dramatic student production I have ever seen on the Mainstage doesn't have a word of spoken dialogue. No capitol-A Actors parade around the stage hysterically wailing for audience empathy in horrible faux-British accents. No garish sets detract from the graceful bodies moving across the stage. No plot line carries the performance from start to well-concluded finish. But you don't miss these dramatic "necessities"--trust me, you hardly realize they're missing. Without characters and plot, an intricate and fascinating drama is created nevertheless through the intimate connection of footwork...
...hashing out solutions, making plans and addressing issues based on facts, not images. What is so admirable about local politicians like Duehay is their persistence is doing this work despite the petty argumentation and rapid mood swings in Washington. In many cases, a bill gets passed in the Capitol, and by the time a local politician sees its effects, it is being repealed by a new regime...
...risk of a U.S. veto over their economic decisions. Meanwhile, the administration -- already on the defensive over allegations of Chinese nuclear spying and Chinese campaign contributions -- is concerned about getting burned in Congress over anything Chinese and wants to look tough. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky showed up on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the American hard line. But she and the administration could now risk getting burned from another direction: Many U.S. businessmen feel the White House may have let a good deal slip...
...split first surfaced two weeks ago on the Senate floor, when only 16 Republicans voted to support the NATO air strikes. "To say Republicans are uneasy about this is an understatement," says a top G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill. "This is a party that likes to think of itself as the mirror image of those antiwar protesters who undermined those American boys in Vietnam. But because the situation is so volatile and the President hasn't laid out an endgame, it's hard to react...
...outcome of the trial will not help Ken Starr?s own case later this week when he appears before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to defend the independent counsel statute, which many on Capitol Hill would now like to see quietly buried. Starr will appear before the panel with his critics? accusations of overzealousness confirmed, in their eyes, by the verdict. In addition, Starr will be faced in the days ahead with another decision, which his congressional opponents will be eyeing very closely: Will he decide to retry McDougal on the deadlocked counts? Those who have criticized Starr...