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...three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer terminals. One message read, "It's the fish, stupid!" Another, "It's the ecosystem, stupid!" And finally, "It's all of them, stupid...
...Harvard Radcliffe Summer Theater production of Isn't It Romantic succeeds overall despite these difficulties. Go see it, for the costumes and the Yiddish puns and Jewish mother jokes and the exploration of modern woman hood. Or just go for the coupons you can cut out of the program, good for discounts at restaurants in Harvard Square...
Today, however, he is best remembered as a composer of colorful, sweeping Hollywood film scores such as Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. What happened? A new recording of the 1927 opera that Korngold always considered his masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane), offers some clues...
...Yale Drama School and spent most of her first professional decade shuttling unnoticed between Broadway (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), television (Tour of Duty) and movies (John Sayles' City of Hope). The roles grew meatier -- she played the mother of a troubled ghetto youth in Boyz 'N the Hood and Michael Jackson's mom in abc's The Jacksons: An American Dream -- but she still labored in the shadows until Tina thrust her onto center stage...
...burgeoning, trafficking incidents are also cropping up in the U.S. In Houston, Korean-controlled nude-modeling studios have been supplied by flesh traders who bribe American soldiers based in South Korea. The G.I.s are typically paid up to $5,000 to marry Koreans and bring them back to Fort Hood, Texas, where they divorce them for an equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry...