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JERRY BERMAN, 60 Free speech on campus and beer in the Bear's Lair" was Jerry Berman's campaign slogan when he ran for student-body vice president at Berkeley in 1962. "I wanted the radicals," he recalls, "but I was trying to get the fraternity vote too." Berman lost that race, but he has used his big-tent style to become a major political operator as head of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. As a proponent of free speech and privacy on the Net, Berman helped overturn the Communications Decency...
...point that they detract from the overall style of the ensemble effort. We almost welcome the benign and believable sense of normalcy they add in counterpoint to the wild posturing that takes place in nearly every other nook and cranny of the stage area, as designed by Kevin Lair. Lair's ambitious but simple set adds an attractive visual component to the plot. The play itself seems to cry out for the overstuffed trappings of the period and Lair precisely captures the sense of place essential to recreate the mood of the period with his spare settings...
...that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...
...before anyone jumps to the conclusion that these connections could lead straight to Bin Laden's lair, it's worth remembering that his organization is far less centralized than those of previous high-profile terrorists, such as the Palestinian Abu Nidal. After all, Bin Laden is less of a CEO and more the head of a loosely grouped holding company. He built his network by putting his considerable resources as a funder and fund-raiser at the center of an international movement to recruit fighters from throughout the Arab world to help Afghanistan resist the Soviet invasion. Those fighters became...
...tour of his children's pet collection. Before his wife Cindy can holler back--"Just don't show him the bedroom! It's a mess!"--McCain has swept past the wide-open door to their bedroom, where clothes are strewn across the floor and bed, into the lair of McCain's 13-year-old son Jack, where a 25-in. iguana is staring back from a glass case. "We've had him since he was this big," McCain says, holding his index fingers about 5 in. apart. Standing there, he remembers the question about New Hampshire. "I don't know...