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...chair and raised her left hand to her face, letting her body tremble in pain. But, when a photograph of the real Henriette Mutigwarba appeared on a screen, it suddenly became clear that Anna Deveare Smith was an impersonator. The all-consuming pain that Mutigwarba must have felt was only imitated onstage; she was the only one who could truly experience her emotion. Smith thus revealed her position as a medium through which these people’s stories could be told, stories that filled and carried the one-woman show. Without the testimonies of real-life Africans, Americans, preachers...
...first set I felt like she made more mistakes, and I was more consistent with putting the ball in the court,” Ko said. “But she stepped it up and was more consistent in the second set, hitting winners all over the place...
Relatively few second-year students attended the meeting—in part because many were interviewing for summer jobs—even though Kagan said she felt most uncertain about the grading system they will use. According to over 100 feedback e-mails solicited by the Law School’s student government, opinions of second-year students remain mixed...
...extremist Sunni Muslims as heretics, fallen-away Muslims, usurpers who should be put to the sword. In the late '70s and early '80s, the Sunni extremists came close to getting their way. During a February 1982 Muslim Brotherhood insurrection in Hama, Syria's third largest city, Hafez al-Assad felt compelled to flatten it in order to stay in power...
...Collins warns that it will discount any artificial use of the endangered words, meaning Motion's readers and Pound's constituents must actually take them up themselves. There's certainly interest in doing so. The Times of London asked readers to vote for the word they most felt should be spared from oblivion and attracted more than 11,000 votes in a week. The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second. Roborant (tending to fortify) and nitid (bright, glistening) failed to shine; they finished last, drawing...