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...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE QUOTE THE PLAYERS THE CONTEXT 'Ready to lead on Day One' John McCain Hillary Clinton McCain features the slogan on his website, but Clinton has been trying to make it her own 'Fired up ... ready to go' Hillary Clinton Barack Obama She's used the words of Obama's chant, started by an Obama supporter but also an NAACP rallying cry 'Yes, we can'/'Sí, se puede' Barack Obama Cesar Chavez This echo of the United Farm Workers' motto became the basis for a popular YouTube music video...
...What is it like to watch your plays being performed? CME: It ranges from hellish to wonderful, depending on the context. It’s very joyous when you have a really good collaboration with the director and cast, and then it’s an amazing thing to see the play coming to life. When it can be very painful is when the production is fighting with the play’s style and rhythm. It’s all about what marriage you have, whether you have a good partnership with the company producing it. But...the thing...
...contemplated in the forthcoming house-by-house renovation effort. This may sound like a satisfactory alternative—and a reasonable justification for refusing to farm out the job to a lone entrepreneur—until one considers the meaning of “forthcoming” in this context. Late last year, Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam said of the general timeline for renovations, “You folks won’t see anything, but your children might.” While the comment may simply be rhetorical flare, the underlying sentiment is clear: cable...
...strengths is its ability to weave the four narratives of the characters together in a way that isn’t cloying or overly connected. Some of Ellen’s monologues often have little bearing on the plot of the play, but these and similar moments create the context that keeps the play from being one-dimensional.The play ultimately walks a fine line between satire and something more tragicomic. One feels that a send-up of Hollywood and its literary cannibalism can’t be the end goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play...
...fundamentalists that would use it for political advantage, explaining how the concept of jihad, meaning a personal struggle "to follow the right path," had been adulterated for the purposes of fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She puts the treatment of women as described in the Koran into context, demonstrating how at the time it was revolutionary and far more progressive than what was practiced by contemporary Christian and Jewish societies. The problem, she laments, is that Islam's progressive traditions calcified in the 17th century, when religion was reduced to a tool to consolidate power...