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...Class of 1983 who struggled with the issues posed by the new fund last spring. Your article suggested that fewer seniors gave to the Senior Gift last year than did in previous years because they were "uninformed." That nation is at best inaccurate, and more than likely groundless...
That fear turns out to be entirely groundless. For Director Michael Rudman's fluid, driving production is not just a revival and a restaging, nor even a reinterpretation of the play, but a virtual reinvention of it. And Hoffman's performance as Willy is nothing short of a revelation. He has stripped away all the doomy portents that have encrusted the character over the years and brought him down to fighting weight, a scrappy, snappy little bantam, whom the audience may, if it wishes, choose to see as a victim, but who almost never sees himself that...
...hearing was convened through a 68-minute conference call, with three appeals judges listening from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas while Presser and Assistant State Attorney General Leslie Benitez talked from Marshall. The appeals court seemed mindful of the Supreme Court's growing desire to cut short apparently groundless last-minute challenges to death sentences. Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Texas time, the court rejected the petition in an eight-page opinion...
...number of press accounts, especially a Boston Globe piece on the unscrupulous KAL organization--have pointed out, the issue can be colored in many shades. However, the conclusions reached by some in the media have proven to be even more groundless than the initial hysteria that provoked them...
Moreover, Deng's writings specifically condemn the dogmatic "whateverisms" of Mao's followers: that whatever policies Mao espoused and whatever directives he issued were to be followed uncritically. Insists the authoritative weekly Beijing Review: "It is groundless to equate the study of Deng's works with idolatry of the man himself...