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...novel shifts easily and cinematically from present to past. Some contemporary passages are a bit dutiful, but at her best Brady writes with a poet's economy, evoking Jonathan's chaotic century in brief detonations of imagery. Without preachment, Theory of War says slavery involves more than the loss of freedom. It also means life without illusion and a lingering nightmare of anger that can pass from parent to child. That "secret bond," as Brady calls it, may be the most terrible consequence of America's greatest tragedy...
...ceremony underscored the growing organizational savvy of the militant pro-life movement. The Melbourne boot camp, organized and led by Keith Tucci, a pastor and executive director of Operation Rescue National, offered its first batch of students a comprehensive curriculum of conflict. Antiabortion demonstrations seem, to the uninitiated, noisy, chaotic affairs. The Melbourne IMPACT training (which stands for Institute of Mobilized Prophetic Activated Christian Training) disclosed some recommended methods behind the madness...
...package of aid to Russia. Japan no doubt will participate, but how much of the tab -- possibly $30 billion -- it can be encouraged to pick up is questionable. Even aside from its unresolved dispute with Moscow about the Kurile Islands, Tokyo has viewed funds poured into the chaotic Russian economy as money thrown away...
...also influence biology. Serotonin levels, for example, are not only controlled by genes but, according to research in monkeys, they can be lowered by regular exposure to alcohol. By the same token, says Kagan, a child with a fearless personality may turn into a criminal if reared in a chaotic home, but given a stable upbringing, "he could well become a CEO, test pilot, entrepreneur or the next Bill Clinton...
...literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...