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...become pawns in a game with mysterious players. Despite the title of the musical, “Chess really ends up taking a backseat to the international intrigue and romance,” Bala says. Amid the romance and competition, political tensions stemming from the Cold War are a constant presence. “Characters are confronted with identity issues, the question of, ‘Can you really be independent in these times?,’ and the feeling that any day [the War] could end,” Bala says. “It’s hard...
...entrance to their flat, they keep a 265-gal. storage tank--locked to prevent theft. The couple are awake by 6:30 a.m. to ensure that the municipal supply is running, and they use an ultraviolet filter to purify water intended for drinking or cooking because contamination is constant...
Weber cautioned against making changes to the recruiting system on the basis of a single bumpy system, saying that "for the past 25 years our program has worked quite well." According to Weber, employment rates at time of graduation have remained relatively constant in recent history...
...obvious concern about ethnic differences or religious differences"; sometimes it's about whose job it is to do the ironing. "From women of the older generation, there was a sense of being frozen out of the relationship," says Apter. "And from the younger generation, a sense of constant disapproval or intrusion." In Apter's study, two-thirds of women said they felt their mothers-in-law were jealous of their relationships with the sons, while two-thirds of mothers-in-law said they felt excluded by their sons' wives...
...there is one potential powder keg we haven't come to yet: children. Apter found that, in all the ethnic cultures included in her research and across the generations, child-rearing was one of the most constant and stressful sources of conflict between daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law. "If I don't see my grandkids as much as I want, if I don't think they're being cared for properly, if I don't think they're being raised in a way that is consistent with my beliefs of a good life," then trouble can ensue, says...