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...voting guilty is his desire to wrap up the deliberation so he can see the Yankees game that night. His character, complete with a New York accent and a Yankee fan’s overconfidence, is the source of many of the lighter moments in the play. By contrast, Juror #9 (Gus T. Hickey ’11) commands the attention and empathy of both the jury and the audience when he, an old man himself, earnestly describes what it feels like to be elderly and overlooked. Runcie and Young’s direction fully complements the strength of their...
...sharp contrast of old and new Belfast raised one overriding question: Did Northern Ireland's Catholics get anything they wanted? Northern Ireland, after all, still belongs to the Queen. I asked a former IRA car bomber. "We got absolutely nothing," Marion said. "We were betrayed...
...anti-trust exemption which helps free up millions upon millions of dollars for MLB teams to spend on raiding Japan's top stars. Most MLB teams use stadiums for little or nothing, having strenuously convinced the cities they play in to build new facilities for them. By contrast The Tokyo Giants pay $250,000 a game to use the Tokyo Dome, while the Softbank Hawks pay $40 million dollars a year to use a similar facility in Fukuoka. Says one longtime observer of the situation, "The NPB should file a grievance with the WTO [the World Trade Organization...
...Senator, along with another member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. Lieberman and Graham said little - and what they did say was in praise of their "plain-speaking" companion McCain - but they enunciated their few words clearly. McCain's voice, by contrast, proved too soft to withstand the gusts of a blustery London day. Journalists who normally hover behind the banks of TV cameras and photographers during press conferences held on the private street outside 10 Downing Street could not hear his answers and were forced to maneuver crablike below the massed...
...placed into one of 12 upperclassmen Houses.Just two weeks ago, Dunster announced that the House will receive fewer freshmen in the housing lottery, increasing the number of singles and easing the burden on the cramped quarters.College administrators have remained tight-lipped about where these students will be relocated.In stark contrast to the developments in Winthrop, residents of Lowell House can expect more senior suites, said Elizabeth Terry, a house administrator, in an interview yesterday. Similar to the situation in Dunster, the changes in Lowell result from an effort to minimize the number of rooms that have been deemed unsafe...