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Only through such a directed, conscious effort can Rudenstine keep the presidency from becoming a highly efficient, highly distant office...
...largely confined to Asia. The play's real subject is what "they" -- Third World people, Asian people -- think of the basically Western "us" that is presupposed to be the audience. To make Kim and the Engineer vivid when they reveal almost nothing of themselves except their fantasies of these distant others requires skillful acting and incandescent star quality. The London production had both, and Mackintosh fought fiercely to bring its two leads -- each of whom won the Olivier Award, London's equivalent of the Tony -- to Broadway. Actors' Equity objected to Salonga because she was not a citizen...
...eight-line poem seemed innocent enough. Its themes of homesickness and patriotism clearly appealed to the conservative editors of the overseas edition of the People's Daily, where it appeared two weeks ago: "I miss my distant home/ Never will I give up my aspirations to serve my country." But hidden within these traditionalist sentiments, attributed to Zhu Haihong, a student studying in the U.S., was a subversive message. When the Chinese characters are read diagonally from upper right to lower left, a slap at the country's repressive and unpopular Premier becomes clear: Li Peng must step down...
...James Cook. Even scientists studying the way the earth looked hundreds of millions of years ago have tended to ignore this solitary landmass. So it came as a surprise to many researchers last week when a pair of American geologists reported that Antarctica may not always have been so distant. In fact, about 570 million years ago, the scientists estimate, today's South Pole was probably less than a thousand miles from the future site of Las Vegas...
...country's first free elections. "We want the same things as the rest of Europe -- freedom to go where we like, to work hard and to secure our future," said Shaban Sula, 37, who works on a nearby collective farm. But in Mamuras, where Europe seems like a distant continent, his words betrayed a wistfulness born of generations of cultural and political isolation...