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...play may be a surreal charade, a pre-Borgesian construct, but it is beautifully arranged and acted. And in demonstrating how the mind can be fooled, it manages to touch the playgoer's heart. At the end - I've decided you're not going to London just because I recommend it, and if you are you can skip this paragraph - the mystery woman, whose name is either Lina or Julia (or neither), materializes, embracing her mother fervently, kissing her husband passionately. Her gestures take no sides in the dispute; she seems equally indulgent of the contradictory beliefs held by these...
...priority, and if secrecy is lost, blowing the chances of a successful prosecution, so be it. Director Robert Mueller has replaced nearly all the bureau's mid-level executives, and many of the agents who were over 50 have retired. Agents are being told they can no longer simply construct an edifice of known facts, as they would for a traditional prosecution. They must instead look around corners and try to understand a terrorist's intentions, habits, methods and psychology. And where the agency once turned tips around with the speed of a turtle, it now operates on a hair...
...Purser's personal ethos is based upon old-fashioned ideals of hard work and country living. On a fine, Monday morning, the women of Tembi gather in a pleasant pavilion in the center of town to construct nested rattan boxes for Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department store chain. As Purser wanders through a clean-swept clearing sheltered by what he calls a "hugely important" banyan tree, where a member of the royal house of Yogyakarta is buried, residents make way for him with discreet Javanese gestures of respect. "When someone gets married, I'm there. When someone dies...
...cleric in Iraq and he opposes theocractic rule. Rather than leading chants of "Death to America," he's been working quietly to help restore order. But the moderates will lose if America is seen to be marginalizing the Shiites. They win if the Shiites see that America is helping construct a fair new order in Iraq. There is no escaping the reality that a majority of Iraqis are Shiites and they are expecting their slice of the cake...
LISE is the second of four major new buildings the FAS science departments are planning to construct in the North Yard, totalling about 500,000 square feet altogether...