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...rarely a coincidence that Hare's characters have an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. His hard stares at Britain's institutions - the Church of England in Racing Demon, the tabloid press in Pravda - are so well-researched that his critics have sniffed that he's a better journalist than playwright. Before the opening night of Pravda, a 1985 collaboration with provocative British playwright Howard Brenton about a Rupert Murdoch-like press baron, the show's producers were so nervous about the similarities that they consulted a libel lawyer. In Obedience, Struggle and Revolt, a 2005 collection of his lectures...
...make a Nazi move the audience, even as the full horror of her actions unfolds. The trickiest scene - for Hare, Winslet (who plays Schmitz) and director Stephen Daldry - was the war-crimes trial, in which Schmitz is accused of killing 300 prisoners by keeping them locked in a burning church. Having earned the audience's sympathies by refusing to reveal a personal secret that would mitigate her responsibility, she then takes them from empathy to horror. When Schmitz finally blurts out that she couldn't unlock the church because to do so would mean "chaos," the moment is astonishing...
...Ivoire. Unlike many Harvard students, he did not arrive in Cambridge with the certainty of a sparse-but-stable dorm life ahead of him. At 8:00 a.m., Yelbi will soon be forced out of the room, into the cold. At the homeless shelter at the First Church in Cambridge, Yelbi is the youngest of the shelter’s 14 guests. He joins an ever growing population that finds even the barest of necessities—a warm bed, breakfast, and consistent shelter—hard to find, especially in difficult economic times.Over the last two years, Yelbi...
Lynch took a bus down from Tulsa to Slidell, Louisiana, in St. Tammany Parish. She apparently told relatives she was going to join a church. According to Sons of Dixie papers seized by Louisiana law enforcement authorities, Lynch was assessed on categories such as "Honesty," "Klannish Practices" and "Ambishous." Lynch's criminal record was so appealing to Foster, authorities say, that he waived the Sons of Dixie's $25 application fee. (In 2005, she had pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a controlled drug - methamphetamine - that police found on her living room coffee table. Friends say Lynch never married...
...fundamentalist Mormon sect, Bountiful has been home to clans of polygamists since the arrival in the late 1940s of the homestead's founder, Harold Blackmore, who - according to one account - was drawn to the valley after envisioning it in a dream. Blackmore was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was expelled from mainstream Mormonism in the 1930s. For generations, local farmers co-existed with the polygamists of Bountiful. But this relationship, based on the country tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly uneasy over time as strange stories of life within the settlement...