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...scientists hesitated to support his views because they couldn't see those canals for themselves. Later it turned out there were no canals; the dots on Mars Lowell squinted at so long probably arranged themselves into lines in his mind. The canals were simply an optical illusion. Lowell was forgiven because he really believed what he saw. But those who supported him without seeing anything were not forgiven...
...forgiven if it's in the name of academics. Memo to Dean Knowles: just don't forget to keep the cats and dogs running around the new complex spayed and neutered...
...Yourgrau, South African born playwright and director, began to write the play after President Nelson Mandela established the Truth Commission to ensure that crimes committed during the apartheid era were to be forgiven but not forgotten. Jacob Zulu was written in this same belief. "The search for truth is balanced with the needs of the present to go forward," says Yourgrau. "Healing begins with true talk...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE WAS IN BUDApest last Thursday when he received Secretary of State Warren Christopher's call informing him that he would be returning to Bosnia. After serving as the primary architect of the Dayton peace plan, Holbrooke might be forgiven if he thought his business in the Balkans was finished (he's rumored to be leaving the State Department and returning to Wall Street later this month). But the arrangement was beginning to unravel, and the man who had knit it together in the first place was being summoned to perform some quick-stitch diplomacy...
...seem to know exactly who he is or why he is on stage. He has a tendency to over- or under-act, and at the wrong times. Jeremy Geidt mumbles too many of his lines, but he's playing an old, near-crazy curmudgeon, so he can be forgiven. Both Evett and Geidt fail to convey and deep understanding of their characters, and come across as flat figures on the stage...