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...undergraduates and to give “guidance to those students who are hungry for more.” Although it’s too soon for Paulus to reveal what productions she plans on launching next season at the A.R.T., she said she plans to attract a great deal of experimental talent. “I have a list of the most exciting people who are really breaking ground on what theater is all about.” —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...star. It's 27 years since Raiders of the Lost Ark started the Jones boy on his adventures, 19 years since the most recent Indy movie, The Last Crusade, and 30 years this month since Lucas and Spielberg sat on a Hawaiian beach and made a handshake deal for an action film that one would produce and the other direct. They'd be stupid to ignore the toll that time takes on moviemakers and movie stars. All were in their 30s when they made Raiders. Now Spielberg, Lucas and Ford are, respectively, 61, 64 and 65. And don't forget...
...large they have avoided freakish displays of violence like public beheadings of civilians, an amateurish, if deeply disturbing, guerrilla tactic. Instead, Mosul's insurgents have remained shadowy, sticking mostly to the kind of lightning strikes against U.S. and Iraqi security forces that mark a professional guerrilla organization aiming to deal blows and survive to do so again in the future...
...Administration had demanded them, over the quiet objections of the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority - both of which suspected that the service-providing terrorists of Hamas might win. And very soon after that initial, gracious statement, Bush changed course and, along with some of our European allies, refused to deal with the Hamas government unless it recognized Israel. The message to democracy activists in the region was crystal clear: We want elections unless we don't like the results of those elections. It stands as Exhibit A of the incoherence of the Bush foreign policy...
...deal with groups like Hamas should be an important debate in the coming U.S. election, but it won't be. It was taken off the table in the past few weeks. First, John McCain allowed his campaign to spread the word that Barack Obama had been "endorsed" by a leader of Hamas. That will be one of McCain's main lines of attack: Obama is soft on terrorism. He wants to negotiate with Iran. He has advisers like Zbigniew Brzezinski who have been "anti-Israel" in the past; the wantonly accommodating spirit of Jimmy Carter looms heavy over Obama...