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Allen collected a ricochet off the cross-bar and deposited the ball post the fallen New Hampshire goalie...
...ageless performance that reminds theatergoers of what it means to see a star; and this particular Hello, Dolly! is a superb production of one of the happiest creations in all of musical comedy. In general, cross-country tours of old musicals featuring septuagenarians who have, let's say, fallen out of the public eye can be the dreariest events in all of show business. Not this time...
...realists. Will the popularity of books on tape further erode the interest in reading? Or should we welcome any new literary medium -- even a slightly degraded one like books on tape? One hopeful sign is that despite the boom in audio books, sales of hardcovers and paperbacks have not fallen. Just as Hollywood once feared the advent of videocassettes but later discovered they fed rather than discouraged interest in movies, books on tape may actually promote the cause of literature. Four hours of Doctorow or McCarthy is better than nothing, especially when the alternative is to stare...
While Rwandans set about hacking one another to pieces in the frenzy of killing that followed the April assassinations, Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi parties struggled to agree on a new President. They might have succeeded if the Rwandan capital of Kigali had not fallen to the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan | Patriotic Front on July 4. The victory emboldened Burundi's Tutsi opposition to make more demands, creating a dangerous stalemate. "There is a government, but the whole structure is weak and barely functioning," says a Western diplomat in Bujumbura. "There are 27 ministers, 11 of whom are from the opposition...
...most pernicious feature of the recent welfare debate, though, from a feminine point of view, has to be the thriving new rhetoric of "illegitimacy." Until a few months ago, the term illegitimate, when applied to a human child, had more or less fallen from use and been replaced by the less pejorative out-of-wedlock. The courts have been steadily erasing the ancient disadvantages of being born to unmarried parents. Feminists have insisted that every child is equally real and deserving, regardless of the circumstances of his or her conception...