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Unlike many of Fugard's other works, in which more prominent racial themes articulate the concerns of a generation of South Africans, The Road To Mecca revolves primarily around the friendship between Helen, an older Afrikaaner woman, and Elsa, a young English-speaking white South African. While there is a subtext of racial awareness in the form of Elsa's activism, this play is really the story of a special friendship between women as they discover the importance of living their lives as they will them to be, and learn how to take on the courage and responsibility...
...home when she first worked in Washington; to Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell, who was the managing partner of her law firm and the former mayor of Little Rock. Hillary had a strong say in the appointment of pal Donna Shalala as Health and Human Services Secretary, although the friendship grew complicated after Hillary grabbed the health out of the Secretary's title and Shalala blurted out that a value-added tax was being considered...
...became the slot manager. But several stockholders of the hotel turned out to be stand-ins for Detroit mobsters, and Wynn was forced to sell early. He was never accused of being anything but an innocent in the affair, and he did get something invaluable out of it: a friendship with the most powerful banker in Las Vegas, E. Parry Thomas. Wynn came to his attention partly because he stood out in the Las Vegas of the late '60s: he was young, fit, wore understated tailor-made suits, had the vocabulary of the English major he had been...
...when Madeleine and Fergus find that it is each other that they want, the confluence of their hallucination leads to a cataclysmic end, when both are left without the friendship they had once trusted, drained of their former illusion of security at least in each other...
...that response, which was obtained by The Crimson, Dowling did not dispute the differing treatment of the supervisors. He said Parker could not work days with weekends off because he had not learned how to do the unit's payroll. Dowling also suggested that Parker had betrayed his friendship by charging discrimination because Dowling had helped Parker on numerous occasions, including loaning him money and saving his job on two occasions...