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...letters she received after Shepard’s passing; some of them had condemned Matthew for his sexuality. “I didn’t understand the magnitude with which people hate,” she said. Understanding the power of hate and remedying its effects are central goals of “The Laramie Project.” The characters lead the audience to a number of realizations about the world of Laramie. As a play, “The Laramie Project” strives to reveal the evil that resides in America; by owning up to prejudice...
...private international primary and soon-to-be-high school, established to give an education steeped in environmental awareness. To that end, Green School is constructed almost entirely of bamboo and mud - nary a nail holds up its beautiful buildings in Sibang Kaja, a 15-minute drive from Ubud in central Bali. School tours, held Mondays and Wednesdays at 3 p.m., are so popular with tourists that they require advance booking...
...China, which essentially meant the U.S. was no longer trying to contain the Soviets alone. Carter told Americans not to panic every time leftists overran some banana republic. Even Reagan, although he funded anticommunist guerrillas, refused to send U.S. troops to battle communist rebels and regimes in Central America...
...magazine's cover. At the time, it was also the fastest cover close in the magazine's history. The photo was shot and processed in Washington in about three hours, then the art director took the transparencies on a plane to Chicago, where they were taken to TIME's central printing plant, where a color engraving was produced. Then those images were taken by air to printing plants in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington and Albany, N.Y. All in all, about 36 hours. Now it's almost instantaneous and done completely digitally...
...Iran is central to the regional polarization because of its alliance with Syria and backing for Hizballah and Hamas, which the rival moderate camp interprets as Persian meddling in Arab affairs at its expense. "In the past, the Arabs showed their disagreements by closing borders, interrupting trade and massing troops on borders. Today, they use handshakes and lunches to put a civil face on their disagreements," said Mustafa Hamani, chairman of Jordan's weekly newspaper Al-Sijill. "But the Arab rift always remains...