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Dionyshus (pupetecred> by Raphed Sperry), god of aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...
Inside a Tuzla sports hall being used to house the evacuees, Merima Sinanovic, a small 20-year-old woman, sits quietly. Her soft blue eyes are set in a face etched with pain and grief. After Serb nationalists sacked her hometown of Vlasenica early in the war, killing her parents, she and her three young brothers roamed the forests in search of food and shelter. "We learned to survive from the old people who had lived through the Second World War," she explains. "They told us how to cook tree buds into a kind of bread. They were surprised...
...million; John Smiley, $18 million; Doug Drabek, $19 million; and Barry Bonds, $43 million. It would have added up to almost $110 million to keep them. We couldn't do it." So these days, Bonilla is a Met; Smiley hurls for the Cincinnati Reds; Drabek has jumped to his hometown team, the Houston Astros; and Bonds is a Giant, in both team and contract size. But don't hang the skull and crossbones at half-staff for the Pirates quite yet. "No one or two players can replace Bonds or Drabek," Simmons conceded. "But 25 men can. Baseball history...
This David-vs.-Goliath struggle is part of the enduring charm of the game. Most fans, other than hometown fanatics, enjoyed last season's spectacle of wealthy clubs like the Dodgers and the Red Sox finishing in last place in their divisions with lineups filled with high-price, low-performance malcontents. A small-market club, the Twins, won the World Series in 1987 and 1991. But the architect who built these championship teams, the Twins' boyish general manager, Andy MacPhail, is worried that Minnesota will be hard pressed to compete in the future, even though it just re-signed Kirby...
Last summer Gvozdikova lived with her parents in Boris Yeltsin's hometown, a city of 2 million called Yekaterinburg, about 1,000 miles east of Moscow -- and the place where Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1960. Today, thanks to a few good-hearted citizens in Ruston, Louisiana, who are raising $50,000 to cover their tuition and expenses for four years, Gvozdikova and her twin sister are enrolled at Louisiana Tech University. "When I left last July," explains Gvozdikova, who so wants to blend into America that she calls herself Nancy, "I thought things...