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...committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black Is My Robe. Even the most upbeat play, A Granny for All Seasons, about individual freedoms, is clouded by the dark legacy of partition...
...supertiebreakers. Though he won four of the six singles sets he played, slow starts in two supertiebreakers resulted in a 2-1 singles record. Kalfayan posted a matching record in doubles, playing alongside freshman Alistair Felton. “As a team, we need to get better at knocking our opponents out at the end of matches,” Kalfayan said. Sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien started off hot, defeating Notre Dame’s No. 2 player in a supertiebreaker and handily winning a doubles match with junior Sasha Ermakov. But a minor shoulder injury proved enough to knock...
...Despite my trepidation, it turns out that the only ritual required in requesting an audience with the hermit is a knock on the door. Father Dario emerges from his quarters wearing a black cowl and a warm smile. He explains that although he has many visitors - some of whom wake him in the middle of the night, or use his pencils to graffiti their names on the walls of his cell - all are welcome. It is the duty of Christian hermits, he explained, to serve both God and humanity through prayer and penitence, and that apparently includes suffering fools gladly...
...Ground operations - the doughnut-fueled armies of volunteers who knock on doors and man the phone banks - are the trench warfare of political campaigns. These are the people charged with finding and persuading voters who might support their candidate, and then making sure they actually show up at the polls. A good ground operation might mean just an additional percentage point or two on Election Day, but in a close race, that margin could easily be the difference between winning and losing. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe calls his ground operation the "field goal unit...
...addresses and sent me out to meet Brian Varrieur. He's a 34-year-old lawyer who lives in Washington, D.C. and looks barely old enough to vote himself. This was the fifth weekend he returned to his parents' home in the neighborhood where he grew up to knock on doors for Obama. Brian is soft-spoken - not exactly a natural personality for this kind of work; back when his elementary school would hold candy-sale drives, "I was one of those kids who would get their next-door neighbor and their mom to buy some, and that...