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...play ends with this brilliant culmination: Broadwater, who has forced the audience throughout to witness his slow descent, writhes on the floor amidst the disordered set, surrounded by the inscrutable and brilliantly complex characters that induced his fatal paranoia...
...Fatah organization and the more radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, putting on the backburner differences that have recently sparked intra-Palestinian violence; It reinforces (Palestinian-backed) calls for international peacekeepers, as the rising toll of child casualties on both sides raises the danger of a descent into uncontrolled savagery; and It stokes a brushfire that will ultimately force the U.S. to renew its mediating role, not least because of the Bush administration's own need for Arab support in any campaign against Iraq...
...many U.S. National Guardsmen in attendance in Salt Lake last week; Parra, a Mexican American who had learned to skate on rollers in the streets of San Bernadino, Calif., and Kwan, the star from La La Land, perhaps the country's most famous citizen of Asian descent. The Winter Olympics had never before looked like America, but during this night - this fortnight - they looked just like America...
Giselle’s descent into insanity, danced to a haunting effect by principle dancer Larissa Ponomarenko, is wonderfully powerful. When she finally collapses in the arms of her mother, the audience almost heaves a sigh of relief that Giselle has found some support...
...communist rule, their ethnic and national identities were actively suppressed. Now the Hungarian government is offering a belated homecoming to the 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries with a new "status law" that came into force last month. The legislation extends generous benefits to people of Hungarian descent in the region - ranging from stipends for Hungarian-language schooling to subsidized travel and facilitated work permits - but has stirred up vehement opposition in nearby countries...