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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a single stroke, the gangs have fulfilled two of Governor James' dearest campaign promises: saving money (inmates, when chained, require fewer guards) and getting tough with criminals. Fortunately, today's crews do not have to wear the heavy ankle irons that used to cause "shackle poison" (the new, handcuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

A controversy has raged for more than four decades about the reasons for the exit of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947-1948. Any attempt to attribute this mass exit to a single cause is only true in part, and therefore false. In part, the Palestinian Arabs fled with the encouragement...

Author: By Einat Wilf, | Title: Israel's Independence Day | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

Each one of these motives and incentives form a part of the picture. None of them is exclusively true. Every one of them was true in some context, in some place and at some time. The overriding fact is that the flight was the consequence of war, that it would...

Author: By Einat Wilf, | Title: Israel's Independence Day | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

But soon Iago is up to his old tricks, and, in a clever scene, turns Desdemona against Constance with the same words that had convinced Othello in the opening scene. Constance's only escape is another sudden jump, this time into Romeo and Juliet, where the abundant joys of sexual...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

The cast's sense of timing is also underdeveloped. Some of Williams' most beautiful, human moments escape while others are emphasized with misguided zeal. The scenes' natural tensions are often not allowed to build. At times, a character who was whispering rememberances just moments before suddenly turns into a shrieking...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Streetcar Arrives In Familiar Form | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

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