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When the Italian author Primo Levi was in Auschwitz, a guard told him, "Hier ist kein warum." (Here is no why.) He was right. That was the terror, the mystery and the evil...
...expounds on a widespread theory: young Cubans who never experienced American capitalism are far more eager to put to sea in its pursuit than their parents, who knew capitalism's dark side firsthand. "They see pictures of their relatives in Miami with late-model cars and Seiko watches and Levi's," he says, "and they are tricked into thinking Cuba's problems are internal and salvation lies elsewhere." The revolution brought fair distribution of the country's wealth, he says, and improvements in health and education. Even if it had not brought those things, he went on, it is justified...
Walling, who won Harvard's version of the best actor Oscar, the Levi prize, before her graduation this spring, is excellent in a deceptively simple role. It is difficult to play perk and spaciness with depth and comedic timing. To Walling also falls the burden of illustrating the title of "Nothing On" by tripping and skipping over the stage for three hours as two characters clad only in what the housekeeper calls her "smalls." Let's not forget that this is a British sex farce...
...Technology and a four-year veteran of the Marine Corps. who planned to quit fighting fires after this summer and seek a master's degree in engineering. Also on board was Bonnie Jean Holtby, 21, who had run track and played basketball in high school. And there was Levi J. Brinkley, 22, who phoned his mother back in Oregon to tell her that he and his Prineville colleagues had been to hell -- a fire in California -- and were now headed for heaven -- the Storm King site in Colorado...
...acres to 2,000, subsided enough to let rescuers in, the bodies of four women and eight men were discovered, most of them just below the ridge. The bodies of two more men were found two days later. Among the 14 dead were Scott Blecha, Bonnie Jean Holtby, Levi J. Brinkley and six of their Prineville Hotshots colleagues...