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...glorification of Agron, and they staged a protest at the show's first performance. Some members of the Latino community have complained that a white songwriter is perpetuating Puerto Rican stereotypes. "My fear is that the general public is going to see this as another Puerto Rican with a knife, and they will come out with that view of our community," says Melody Capote, executive director of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City. The show has even spawned a counterplay: Fred Newman, a playwright and director who was once Agron's therapist, has written and staged...
...cops out of shops and put them back on the streets. The primary concern of the police should be the safety of the community at large. Although underage drinking is illegal, it certainly is not as harmful as violent crime. Even some Harvard administrators might agree that preventing knife-point robberies is more important than depriving college students of beer. JONATHAN REGENSTEIN...
...armed assailants robbed twoundergraduates at knife-point late at night at theintersection of Follen Street and Concord Avenue...
...reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...infant daughter was poisoned and how he faced the prospect of cutting open her throat to save her, should she stop breathing. Although he averted the worst, Stevens knew he had the capacity to perform surgery on her himself. Egoyan presents this choice by juxtaposing the gleaming knife with the calm infant...