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...Gingrich's indictment sometimes verges on the laughable. After the treachery of 1441, he says, "The State Department then accepted Hans Blix as chief inspector - even though he was clearly opposed to war and determined to buy time and find excuses for Saddam. The State Department then accepted Blix's refusal to hire back any of the experienced inspectors thus further drawing out the process...
...Saroyan's film; his mother, Ani (Egoyan's real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return to Toronto. The characters talk endlessly. "The opposite of denial is the tendency to talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened room over the contents of Raffi's cans, labeled...
...REAL INSPECTOR HOUND/BLACK COMEDY. This doubleheader of serious comedies offers up Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) and Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) at their funniest. The plays operate within the conceits of the dramatic and artistic spheres, respectively, in order to highlight the contrasts between illusion and reality, the unseen and the visible. Both plays tinker with theatrical conventions to create an evening of non-stop hysterics. Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $8, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for Adams House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Adams House Pool Theatre...
Later, the deputy police inspector in charge would explain that day's impact: "For those of us in [the] public morals [division], things were completely changed ... Suddenly they were not submissive anymore." Today gays and lesbians memorialize that night each year with a weekend of rallies, parades and parties--a spectacle as inspiring and raunchy as the Stonewall itself. --By John Cloud
Though it was not clear at the time, the attempt to build a unified international position on Iraq died that day. Everything that followed--the gnomic reports by Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief biochemical-weapons inspector; Powell's presentation of new intelligence on Saddam's WMD capabilities; increasingly frantic British efforts to forge a new resolution that might win a majority of the Council--was no more than flowers on the coffin of Resolution 1441. Powell was furious at the Martin Luther King Day ambush. "He had won an internal debate within the Administration...