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Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was written heavy handedly about grave times and during comparably grim times. The length and gravity of the masterpiece, could, if performed prosaically, drag the audience into the grave along with John Proctor and Ann Putnam’s seven babies. Yet despite minimal distractions in the form of sets and costumes, the law school production of The Crucible managed to engage through its three-hour length...
...majority if not the near totality of those killed were Jews from all over occupied Europe. The Pope prayed with genuine grief for the Christians. But why didn't he invite a rabbi and nine Jews to have a minyan to recite the Kaddish for these Jews without a grave, who had been assassinated and burned and whose cemetery lies in the clouds? Did he not take into consideration that, right at the spot where the ceremony was taking place, many extremely religious Jews had been gassed to death? It was an opportunity missed to make an extraordinary and sensitive...
...Latham wins in the upcoming federal elections in Australia, due to be held sometime within the current year, the Bush administration will suffer yet another grave blow to its international relations. Australia, which could be considered the United States’ most loyal ally, has now begun to question its foreign policy on Iraq. It is time the Bush administration sat up and noticed that the support for their global program of bullying is thinning...
...most famous child potentate of all time - Egypt's young pharaoh, Tutankhamun - but his tomb's magnificent treasures have been shown in Europe only three times since the grave's discovery in 1922. After the last exhibit, in 1981, the Egyptian government barred the artifacts from leaving the country. Now, after six years of negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, the Museum of Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland, will offer a rare glimpse at the stunning artifacts buried with King Tut, who ruled from 1333 B.C. to 1323 B.C. - until his death at 18. The museum's director, Peter Blome, says...
...lunch of chicken soup and schnitzel, not a single legislator approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern mortgages and loans tied...