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...Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 do well to reflect the heated words exchanged onstage and keep the show’s intensity high. The costumes even manage to contribute to the play’s characterization—as when King Edward emerges in mirrored garb that partly blinds the audience and partly reflects its image back. It’s coupled with exquisite makeup that creates deformity in Richard and the effects of aging in Queen Margaret...
...III’s reign comes to an unexpected and startling end while at the peak of power. Richard’s demise is plotted by Richmond, a character who is barely even mentioned in earlier acts. Richard then becomes a virtual Montezuma, with his slayer represented in European garb...
Viola’s main task is to help the Duke woo the widow Olivia—which wouldn’t be a problem except that Viola falls in love the Duke and Olivia falls in love with Viola in her male garb. Things get all the more confusing when Sebastian, who looks just like the disguised Viola arrives on the scene...
Fedayeen Saddam ("Saddam's Men of Sacrifice") 20,000-25,000 Formed in 1995, the fedayeen handpicks members as teenagers from loyal tribal areas and are considered among the fiercest of Saddam's fighters. Often disguised in civilian garb, fedayeen units have mounted attacks against coalition troops. Operating outside the law, the group has a "death squadron" that executes people in their homes...
...those who specialize in international law are worried that the U.S. has lost some of the moral authority it needs to ask others to uphold the conventions. Some experts complained last year when U.S. special forces in Afghanistan wore local garb and beards in an effort to blend in. There was talk even within the Pentagon that such deceptive appearances could amount to perfidy in a war-crimes trial. The official line was that the Americans were wearing the uniform of the Northern Alliance. "But that may be a distinction without a difference for someone from the Arab community," says...