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...sought urgent clarification on the meaning of Sharon's statement, and asserted that Washington would continue to work with Arafat. Still, the Israeli decision left little reason for General Anthony Zinni to remain in the region hoping against hope to broker a cease-fire by prevailing on Arafat to crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Implicit in Sharon's announcement was the assertion that Israel is no longer expecting a truce with Arafat, but essentially looking instead to replace him. In an interview published Friday, Sharon said Arafat was "history" and that Israel would seek to negotiate with local...
...It’s a tough group to crack, when you’ve got four experienced guys in the backcourt,” Sullivan said...
...Sullivan operettas are as English as a cup of tea (and this is a show that makes its audience sing “God Save the Queen” before the overture), then The Yeomen of the Guard is the cup that got laced. It is operetta on crack. The plot starts off with characteristic gleeful entanglement, but when the time comes to tidy everything up for neat resolution, the miraculous ploys fail and tragedy, usually avoided by a hair’s breath, dominates the conclusion...
...only current or former roommates in the group were Suzanne M. Pomey and Hilary, who lived together freshman year. Suzanne thought her claim to fame (or notoriety) was kissing Anthony Hopkins on stage. She drank at the dinner, but all FM’s crack staff could not find out if she was enjoying a nice chianti. (This is an allusion to Hopkins’ famous portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Funny...
When three flame emails burned up my mailbox I lost half my readership over a crack about Charlie Brown. In spite of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" being the definition of a mainstream, co-opted comicstrip, it would seem that the cynical, iconoclastic comixcenti hold it as close to their hearts the rest of America. Could I have been wrong to dismiss Charlie Brown's 50 years of antics as a "crudely-drawn dwarf's repetitious bumblings?" As luck would have it a new book, "Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz," addresses just such doubts about the most popular comicstrip...