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...tried to think of the intent of the character Oyamaifat (I don't remember his exact name). I realized there was a lot of making-fun going on during the play about male/female issues, Latino machismo, etc. I tried to make excuses for having the Jewish character contrived as such, but I could not. They were making fun of an ethnicity, a race. It frankly surprises me that students at Harvard University, who are supposedly so "educated" and welcoming of diversity, are really so ignorant...
...action--"as soldier, war correspondent and public servant in high places. One sometimes has the feeling that the man has skipped a century, harking back to less pedestrian and comfort-loving times, to older and more tested virtues. He restores to the leadership of Britain the nobleman, in its exact sense of being a man and being noble...
Technology also promotes democracy--the exact opposite of what Orwell foresaw. The fax machine helped bring down communism, and the Net makes state control of information impossible. Even in free countries, citizens have new powers to communicate with and about their elected rulers. A.J. Liebling said that freedom of the press was guaranteed only to those who own one. Now almost anyone...
...leapt into action and launched a full-scale investigation. Trouble is, they don?t even know what was taken. ?The exact nature of what the papers were and whether anything is missing is the subject of the investigation,? said a State Department official who -- understandably -- preferred to remain anonymous. Next question: Could the brown tweed man be tied to a Washington Times report that the feds are also investigating the passing of information to an Iraqi agent? The spy, according to the Times, procured information about U.S. air strikes, then imminent. However, given the trumpeting of attack plans...
...They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government, arguing that the rule applies "the exact same indecency standard" the Justices said violated the First Amendment when they rejected it for cyberspace...