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...last second of the play. Well, sometimes Macbeth had a cardboard crown on his head, and occasionally Lady Macbeth wore a very long wig, but that was all. When "she" took it off, there was Lady Macbeth with short blond hair and a penis. The stage was covered in gore and what I think was supposed to be human excrement. The standing ovations at the end went on forever. I wonder what the Bard would have thought about all that. William Woodley Munich I read your reference to Shakespeare as "Will" with a shudder of distaste. Should we British...
...drugs’ limited availability in South Africa. Achmat described AIDS as “the most important challenge for leadership in the twenty-first century.” He criticized the “AIDS denialism” of the South African government and accused Clinton and Gore of being swayed by drug companies. A “practical morality” in dealing with the issue, he argued, was critical. Any agenda to address AIDS, he said, would have to protect society’s “most vulnerable and marginalized members” such as young...
...John Kerry for a similar straitjacket in the 2004 campaign. In some ways, the Kerry campaign was even worse. After all, the Senator was a student of politics. He had spent his entire life hankering for the presidency. And then he proceeded to make precisely the same mistake as Gore, allowing himself to be smothered by his consultants. Perhaps the worst moment came with the Bush Administration torture scandal: How to respond to Abu Ghraib? Hold a focus group. But the civilians who volunteered for an Arkansas focus group were conflicted; ultimately, they believed the Bush Administration should do whatever...
...Austin, Texas, the political consultant Mark McKinnon watched the Gore and Kerry campaigns from a unique perspective. He had spent his life as a Democrat and now he was working, as a matter of personal loyalty, for his friend George W. Bush. Very much to his surprise-and to his wife's horror-McKinnon was in the midst of a conversion experience, not so much to the Republican philosophy but to the Republican way of doing campaigns. It was so much simpler. Maybe it was because Republicans were more businesslike and saw their consultants as employees, rather than saviors...
...Happy 58th birthday to Al Gore. I don't want to say Al Gore is boring, but his party broke up before they finished singing the song Happy Birthday." JAY LENO...