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...Beale has been playing the Dane for nearly a year now. For some such a run might be no trouble at all. But for a performer who so completely slides inside of a character as abused and abusive as Hamlet it is no surprise that his stamina may flag ever so slightly. The emphasis here must be on the slightly, though. Beale remains a marvel. To watch him in action is to witness something incredible: the steady and graceful transformation of a myth into a man and a monument into a story. We all know the tale of Hamlet, even...
...opinion. And that made it counterproductive to continue the legal fight to stop the impoverished African country most severely affected by the pandemic from importing or manufacturing cheap copies of AIDS treatments. Legal representatives of 39 international pharmaceutical manufacturers acknowledged as much Thursday, when they ran up the white flag in a Pretoria courtroom, withdrawing their suit challenging South African legislation that authorizes the government to begin importing generic AIDS-treatment drugs...
...state leaders led the push for this vote, and many of them led the push for the change to a new flag," says Democratic state representative Frances Fredricks. "But if the people don't want to be led, then you have to just leave them there...
...choice was whether keep the current flag, which dates from 1894 and has elements of the Confederate battle flag in its upper-left corner, or adopt a new flag with circles of 20 stars to represent Mississippi's admission as the 20th state...
...that the 1894 flag has passed referendum, supporters are trying to change state law to give the flag constitutional protection. "There are obviously shadows in our past," says John French, a leader of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who are conducting a petition drive for the constitutional remedy, "but we still don't want to erase our history...