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There is no doubt that the performance is intense; no rendition short of a farce can escape the play's inherent potency, Director Edward Gilbert makes a grave mistake, though, when he sustains the play's intensity from start to finish (a total of three hours and ten minutes), a move that results in tediousness and a slumbering audience...
...acted as a session leader, recalls the intensity of emotion. "The pain within the Chrysler corporation was evident from Day One," he says. "They cared a lot about the business and took enormous pride in having been part of the greatest turnaround in U.S. industrial history. There was a grave sense of disquiet that it could happen again, damn it, on their watch...
...Chin Indian reservation south of Phoenix, Arizona, self- government and self-sufficiency are taken for granted. The Ak-Chin broke away from the paternalistic U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the federal agency that still controls much of Indian life from cradle to grave, in 1961 when the tribe insisted on farming its own lands rather than leasing them out to non- Indians for negligible revenues. Today the 600-member tribe takes in profits of more than $1 million a year by growing crops on 16,500 acres. About 175 Ak-Chins work on the land or in community government...
Small wonder French citizens find the heated U.S. campaign rhetoric about "family values" quaintly irrelevant. While Democrats and Republicans play , their game of dare-to-care one-upmanship, the French look upon the benefits that attend citizens from cradle to grave as inalienable rights. Why has France -- and many other West European countries -- long since reached a consensus about government's obligation to family while Americans continue to argue across party lines? While both cultures regard the family as a precious and fragile unit that requires governmental attention and care, historical and ideological factors make the terms of that obligation...
...A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela to settle allegations by former detainees of atrocities committed against them by the A.N.C.'s security department in its detention camps. Conceding that the abuses had violated the A.N.C.'s own code of conduct, Mandela promised the report would be considered "as a matter of grave urgency...