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...want to prevent such violence and bloodshed before it occurs. What is at stake right now is not just the sovereignty of Kuwait but the destruction of human civilization in one of its earliest birthplaces...
...only does this unique constraint provide the audience with moments of conspiratorial delight (we know, for example, that Robert has discovered the affair before Jerry knows), but it also invests the final, earliest scene with a sense of pathos that would be absent in a more traditional arranging of the play's events. This affair is, quite literally, doomed from the start, and the convincing passion which Ducey and Cottingham demonstrate in the play's final scenes elicits our sympathy in one of the play's few genuinely touching moments...
...Luxor, Egypt. According to Yurco, the figures dressed in ankle-length clothes at the upper left corner of the top slab are the defeated Israelites; more Israelites lie in a confused jumble at the slab's bottom edge. If Yurco's theory is correct, these images would predate the earliest known depiction of the Israelites by six centuries. The figures in the bottom slab depict Merenptah's defeat of the Canaanite city of Ashkelon...
What accounts for this sudden sprouting of caution on the right? Partly it is a return to isolationist tendencies that go back to the earliest days of the Republic. In 1796 George Washington warned against the dangers of entangling alliances: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." Over the centuries, the desire to retreat from a global role has ebbed and flowed, and in the 1930s Congress even passed neutrality laws in the hope of preventing the U.S. from...
Like two lovers confronted by the practical realities of marriage, East and West Germany are having a bout of prenuptial nerves. Though the two countries will not formally tie the knot until Oct. 3 -- the earliest practicable date -- the euphoria of unification has given way to a summer of unemployment, rising prices and political disillusionment. Both sides remain firmly committed to the merger, but East Germans have begun to fret over the economic disintegration of their country and West Germans worry about the price of preventing...