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...entire length of the Mexican border, will not succeed unless Starr's citizenry can be enlisted in the war against drugs. At present many residents regard the narcotraficantes as local heroes, and their exploits are celebrated in ballads called corridos, which play on radio stations. In the river hamlet of Fronton, a monument was erected to mark a smuggler's death in a shoot-out with Customs agents...
Kozol's interest in literature began as an undergraduate at Harvard, where he was a member of the Advocate and wrote his senior's honors thesis on "Hamlet...
CONTRARY TO the titular claim, Rosencrantz (Linus Gelber) and Guildenstern (Andrew Watson), those two fatuous forgettables out of Hamlet, have been revived once again. Poor fellows, they're forced once more to wrestle with the existential riddles of Tom Stoppard's 20-year-old classic. Lucky for us, though, because the Leverett House production is a compellingly clever and lively show, a splendid send-off for the house theatricals season...
...action has already begun as the audience files in: on a bare stage, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are flipping coins to pass the time. Stoppard has removed them from Hamlet and left them in limbo, without a script or even stage directions. They can't even keep their names straight. Adding to their general disorientation, the coins keep turning up heads, 92 times...
...local residents, no longer shimmered a welcoming blue. Instead, the waters had turned a drab shade of reddish-brown, clay having been churned from the lemon-shaped lake's depths. The village that shares the lake's name showed no signs of life, save the rescue crews. Of the hamlet's almost 1,200 residents, only four, including a woman and her child, are believed to have survived. Five miles away in Su- Bum, army troops found a scrawny chicken dancing a macabre two-step atop a freshly dug family grave. "All the people, the goats, the pigs...