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...political take, however, pales next to the chagrin of watching Path move inexorably toward its climax. The last few minutes--inside the planes, the towers and the conference rooms on 9/11--are tastefully handled, though no less chilling. But they're beside the point. What matters is what happened before and what happened--and didn't--afterward. An epilogue notes the commission's report card, issued last December, which found that most of its recommendations--securing weapons of mass destruction, delegating antiterrorism funds by risk--have been carried out badly...
...Most of this awkward time she has been quiet, with a dull gaze that harbors reproach, for him or herself or both. At one point she touches her dark shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death...
...theme under breath, you begin to notice something funny. All of the people walking about with their purposeful, ardent strides are young. Interrogation follows intuition; you quickly discover that they, like yourself, are interns. This process repeats itself again and again until you finally realize, with some chagrin, that you are just one of many thousands irresistibly drawn to this place of politics and power. Interns are the lifeblood of the city. Most Senate and Congressional offices have between five and 30: the interns often outnumber regular staff. A little grade school math and a rough estimate...
...sliding into the wallow around the plate after a shallow single by eventual winning pitcher Taylor Meehan (1-1). In fact, the dirt areas of the mostly-turf Friedman Diamond—the batter’s boxes and the mound—required constant maintenance, much to the chagrin of the benches and the grounds crew alike, throughout the soggy afternoon. “It’s huge,” Brown said. “Especially on a day like today, it’s miserable, there’s lots of delays, things like that...
...stand-up-out-of-your-chair, musical whirlwind is about young, energetic protagonist Ren (Kevin Barlowski) who moves out of the city with his monther to a rural town that has outlawed dancing. So what does this little revolutionary sparkplug do? He puts on a dance, much to the chagrin of the uptight Reverend Moore (Sean P. Bala ’09), but to the delight of the Reverend’s daughter and his own love interest Ariel (Sarah-Jayne Blackmore...