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...play, directed by Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...
...supplied with oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the same preferential terms (a 75% discount on the market price) it now receives from Iraq. Last week Dov Weisglass, director-general of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was at the White House for talks with Gary Edson, an economic and national-security aide to Bush. The Israelis, sources familiar with the negotiations tell TIME, have asked for an extra $4 billion in military aid for equipment such as missile-defense and early-warning systems, plus another $8 billion in loan guarantees. "This is our idea," says...
Harvard was singled out because of its influence around the world, said Edson Porto, who leads the Joshua Project. Since Harvard trains so many world leaders and international students, a spiritual revival at the University could have an enormous global influence...
...International Development head Andrew Natsios . As Thompson discussed the new HIV-AIDS plan, Natsios grew upset and insisted that his agency should play the lead role. Bush, who is famously impatient with internal bickering, was visibly irritated by the turf skirmish, and sharply instructed Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Edson to resolve the dispute...
...Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols. The subject is so strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...