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...months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive was faxed to the offices of White House Cabinet Secretary Christine Varney and domestic policy chief Carol Rasco. Almost everyone, including the President, had left for Christmas vacation, and the proposed order sat unread. "In fact," says a White House aide, "Carol never got it at all." Not so, counters an HHS official, "and we've got the fax receipts to prove it." No matter. Everyone knew what...
...daring Christmas Carol, transposed to the ghetto...
...remarkable thing about Community Carol is not, however, what it says but who is performing it. The cast of 30 includes equal numbers of professional actors and members of Washington's impoverished Anacostia neighborhood, an area pioneered by slaves working farms they had bought in secret, and so long benighted that some areas lacked electricity in the 1930s. The amateurs are not stereotypical victims or lowlifes: while some come from straitened circumstances, one is a Berkeley-educated attorney, others are students at a selective high school for the performing arts, and one is a former seminarian who does managerial tasks...
...noble aims and aggressive attitudinizing are both in evidence in Community Carol. Says Rauch, who directed and co-wrote: "We started years ago in places where the barriers were geographic. In cities some communities can be just as isolated because of other factors. We could tell Anacostia was responding because 270 people, by far a record for us, showed up for auditions. Urban work seems to be our future...
...audience member who has sat through what feels like three hours of urban despair, albeit interwoven with homilies and hopes, that statement is startling. It is also a reminder of the real message of A Christmas Carol, in any form: Look at the forgotten and see them whole...