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...unusual background of symbolism for this play. For example, when Crampton, who cracks nuts with his jaws and rinses his mouth out with plain yellow soap, needs to have a tooth extracted, this incident seems like a prophesy of his impending castration as the paterfamilias of the Clandon household--but concluding that may be taking Freudian fetishism...
...priority subject: presidential politics. When the Star, its cover splashed with scarlet, citron and purple, asserted that Gennifer Flowers enjoyed a 12-year affair with Democratic candidate Bill Clinton -- in an issue that also retailed movie star Harrison Ford's "brush with death" (resulting in four stitches) and a household "ghostbusting" by rocker Joseph McIntyre of New Kids on the Block -- "real" journalists scoffed. The interview with Flowers was tainted, they said, by the reported $130,000 to $175,000 that she was paid (amply recouped via an estimated $800,000 that her well-hyped recollections earned at newsstands). This...
...side effect of the trial's opening is allthe characters who are coming out of the woodworkwith interesting testimonials about theirexperiences in the Dahmer household. One such taleappears in this week...
Clarence Mitchell Courthouse, a brooding Beaux Arts monolith in the heart of Baltimore, contains the Baltimore City Juvenile Court. Like the 2,500 similar juvenile courts across the nation, this is where the battles are being fought against some of America's toughest problems: drugs, disintegrating families, household violence. As these problems have grown worse over the past two decades, the judicial system designed to deal with them has crumbled. These courts are an indicator of the country's compassion for families and its commitment to justice, but increasingly they have neither the money nor the personnel to save most...
Meanwhile Algeria's military men gambled on nostalgia. By bringing Boudiaf aboard, they hoped to create an aura of historical legitimacy. But Boudiaf, 72, is hardly a household name now. He has been absent from Algeria for the past 28 years, since he fled to Morocco after refusing to serve as the puppet President of an army-controlled government. With nearly 75% of Algeria's 26 million people under age 30, it is questionable whether young voters will grasp the symbolism...