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Like this semester's production of Daisy, The Errols proves that Harvard undergraduates can create superb musical compositions and assemble talented casts. Although in future plays Fletcher should attempt to flesh out the plot and production values associated with his musicals, this play remains a significant triumph...
...listen, "We Kurds are finally free." Jails were thrown open; prisoners set at liberty. Kurds spoke openly of their travails without fear of retribution from Baghdad's once omnipresent spies. Even the discovery of the horrors of Saddam's torture camps -- corpses studded with maggots, canisters of rotting human flesh stored at local outposts of the dreaded Estikhbarat (military intelligence), prisoners who had not seen the light of day for so many years that they thought they were still living in the 1970s -- seemed a catharsis before the new era of freedom...
...motley convoy stops before the small town of Altun Kupri, 25 miles from Kirkuk, and everyone jumps out. A truck with a flat tire zooms by from the direction of the city carrying wounded. One can smell the odor of burned flesh as it passes. As the twilight gathers, Abdul Rahman Aju Ali, 54, a barrel- shaped man with fierce eyes, explains, "We will attack at night...
...president might even use the occasion to flesh out his much-heralded "New World Order." If we're really lucky, Bush might introduce a domestic agenda...
Just about the only spark of life is Poitier's flamboyant performance. Not that the spark is always warming. Though Poitier, 64, is still a magnetic screen presence, his precise diction, darting gestures and eccentric pauses have become so mannered that any resemblance to flesh-and-blood conversation seems merely coincidental. In his big courtroom speeches, one can hardly find the legal arguments amid the actorish flourishes. No real judge would be swayed, but the Emmy jury will undoubtedly be bowled over...