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...Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater last fall presented writer-director Eric Simonson's big, imaginatively staged adaptation of Moby Dick; there was no whale, but a surprising amount of Herman Melville's imposing novel made it onstage. (Adaptations of epic novels, like John Irving's Cider House Rules, have a habit of flopping in New York.) Houston's enterprising Alley Theater last fall staged a fine production of The General from America, Richard Nelson's brooding, against-the-grain, surprisingly convincing historical drama about Benedict Arnold. (The play later opened off-Broadway, where the critics, predictably, dissed...
...anarchy by design. An organization called Direct Action Against the War was loosely responsible for the San Francisco protests. Its leaders picked a time, sent e-mail to sympathetic groups as disparate as Food Not Bombs and the Lutheran Peace Fellowship and organized a 10-minute orientation at Justin Herman Plaza on the tenets of civil disobedience (and on the importance of preparing a sound bite if you are arrested near a camera crew). Then the groups scattered. Police couldn't follow the mob because the mob was everywhere and nowhere, working in tiny, constantly evolving cells. In their obstreperous...
...that needs urgent regulatory attention. Alternative-medicine gurus and the burgeoning over-the-counter drug industry have fostered the notion that anything natural is safe. Well, the poisons strychnine, belladonna, ricin and botulin are all natural. Legislation is needed to prohibit advertising that implies "all natural ingredients" means "safe." HERMAN BIEBER Kenilworth...
...Barbara Herman, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, pointed to the number of successful female students Rawls’ had as another mark of his pioneering liberal thought in the 1960s...
...Herman said Rawls always had a “confident expectation that he would learn something from his students...