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...fire, blowing out the Toyota's side windows, the car lurched forward, finally coming to a rest on a median strip 40 yards south across the intersection. Glass fragments scattered around the car where it stopped show that the killer or killers continued firing as the Americans tried to flee. The right hand side of the car was hit with at least 24 bullets and the side windows on both sides of the car were shattered. Blood pooled beside the car's front doors...
...fight-or-flight response hasn't changed. Sometimes it's still useful: a demanding job can lead to a sense of pride; a bout of precurtain jitters can motivate a spectacular performance. But many modern stresses are continuing, not acute, and arise in situations we can neither fight nor flee: an unreasonable boss, a harrowing commute, a stormy relationship, a plummeting stock market, a general sense that life is out of control...
This production, now playing at the American Repertory Theater (ART), marks the eighth professional staging of Euripides’ little-known tragedy about children who are forced to flee their homeland after their father’s death. Sellars’ adaptation was recently performed in Germany, Italy and France, each time with a dramatically different dynamic, according to the director, who now brings the show to the United States for the first time...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK He was the leader who had unified most of China under a reformist government. She was a daughter of the eminent, Western-oriented Soong family who became his effective propagandist in the U.S. Though they had been forced to flee the Japanese invasion in 1937, TIME saluted them for forging a Chinese "national consciousness...
Consider Ayaan Hirsi Alis, a Muslim Somali refugee turned Dutch political activist. Before death threats convinced her to flee the country, she made her name documenting a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population and railing against the orthodoxy of multiculturalism that refused to pass judgment on practices she unapologetically labeled “backward.” Alis is not affiliated with a right-wing party and the Dutch are famously tolerant people who put up with everything. Neither Alis nor her country fit the usual profile of claustrophobic bigots...