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...always hard to get people to write them, which puts a time constraint on the U.C.," especially with the housing lottery approaching rapidly, Grovesaid in an interview yesterday...
Also problematic for the procuction was its rather small stage, where its 29 members were frequently assembled. While the size constraint often made the ensemble scenes appear static, the enthusiasm of the actors and occasional inclusion of dance piece helped lighten the mood...
...Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this man is that like Nazism itself, his irrationality cannot be contained by any appeal to civility, any system of legal or moral constraint. He is evil in all its banality, all its primal ferocity...
...absurdly small figure of 5,000, while P.L.O. officials have said they would wave in the whole 800,000. That would increase the Palestinian population in the territories by one-third and bring in many individuals deemed security risks by Israel. In reality, both sides recognize that the main constraint on the number of returnees is economic: the West Bank and Gaza Strip are impoverished and cannot afford to absorb a gigantic influx of newcomers. During the secret negotiations in Oslo, both sides informally batted around the figure of 200,000 returnees...
...choice is meaningless without the means to choose. Only 13 states voluntarily fund abortions for those who can't afford them; the poor elsewhere are looking to Clinton to save them from the back alley. But Clinton's options are limited by the Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially allowed federally funded abortions only if the mother's life was endangered, was expanded last , summer to include cases of rape and incest. Furthermore, the revised Hyde Amendment requires only that...