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...siege marks a personal victory for Arafat over Sharon's efforts to sideline him, it also makes the Palestinian leader's political life infinitely more difficult. Arafat will be expected, by the Americans with some degree of support from the Saudis and other moderate Arab leaders, to contain Palestinian rage and crack down on militants even as he tries to rebuild his battered political, administrative and security structures. And despite Arafat's newfound freedom of movement, most West Bank Palestinians are still living under siege - the Israeli army remains encamped around most Palestinian towns, tightly controlling access and launching...
...Paine, located behind the Science Center, is quite a trek from the River Houses and even farther from the Quad. Its hours are miserly, especially on weekends, and its grand pianos tend to be far less than grand. Although the Houses have practice facilities of their own, they often contain few rooms dedicated to keyboard practice, and their pianos are perpetually out of tune. Even the illustrious concert grand in the Eliot House tower—donated by Leonard Bernstein no less—needs serious reworking...
Last week, the Supreme Court overturned parts of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 that banned all representations of sex that appeared to contain children. This included both a ban on computer generated child pornography as well as a potential ban on the representation of sexual acts by consenting adults appearing as minors, as happened in the movies Traffic and Lolita...
...most noticeable weakness of the production was the inconsistent performances from individual performers. Though Patience does not contain particularly nuanced characterization, the substantial dialogue and songs with wide vocal ranges demand considerable acting and singing know-how from the performers...
...Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting!” exclaims the publicity flyer for Warren I. Cohen’s The Asian American Century. The book tries to achieve more substantial analysis than the above quote, but its broad generalizations about Asian-American relations rarely contain more insight than the average pop song...