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...never saw my adoptive father again. Twenty-seven years after I put my napkin down at breakfast, I heard that my adoptive mother, now widowed, was ill and lonely. I sighed and made contact with her. We never forgave each other. Still, I'm glad I did it. It may seem very cynical of me, but if I hadn't, I never would have written Three Tall Women. That play was the beginning of a particularly fertile decade for me that produced The Play About the Baby and The Goat, among other things. And it's not over...
...Georgian-Chechen border, waiting either for a chance to slip across or, as Georgian security officials maintain, negotiating with corrupt Russian army commanders to buy a safe corridor into Chechnya. Marsho is Mazayev's first feature film. Since leaving Grozny six years ago, he has had little contact with his family, but says that his elder brother is slowly recovering from his time in one of the Russian "filtration camps" - brutal improvised prisons where, human rights groups say, torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings are common. Funding for Marsho came in part through Akhmed Zakayev, before the war a theater director...
...however, contemplated employing modern technology in a bid to keep himself barefooted 365 days a year. Thus far, Teddy reports that he has failed in his efforts to engineer a sort of “furry” foot mitten that could insulate and permit ample foot-to-earth contact...
...also conducting a study in which he tests fathers who spend two days with their children followed by two days without child contact...
Students sat on blankets and so did Harvard’s president, who braved not only the wet but the inevitable human contact involved in putting on a show like this. He gets two thumbs up for throwing the party and for sticking it out in the rain...