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...Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60 percent of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee - the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland who cast the lone vote against war - with a campaign titled "It's O.K. to Love America." For now, Berkeley's woes have inspired the town of Santa Cruz, another former hippie haven down the California coast, to quietly shelve its own antiwar resolution. Making foreign policy, it seems, can be bad for business...
While a lot of nonchalant high school seniors can count on their aggressive parents to ask the right questions, e.g., “Is there breakfast in bed?”, some are braving the application process alone. The history lecture that these lone warriors get on the campus tour, with its wild tales of cannonballs denting the bricks in Harvard Yard, is not exposing them to the reality of student life...
...assassination of Israeli politician Rehavam Ze’evi last Tuesday, are reprehensible. Americans now know the fear in which Israelis live on a daily basis. Israel has not known a single act so terrible as that which occurred Sept. 11, but the constant, omnipresent fear of a lone man in a marketplace killing himself to annihilate anyone nearby may be even more terrifying...
...wire marks the outskirts of a separate military installation. Few people are on the streets. The banging of ripped corrugated iron against concrete supports is the only sound competing with the ever-wailing wind. In the bar room on the ground floor of the Hotel Surkhon, the town's lone oasis, a few young men are drinking beer and vodka chasers around the pool table. The melody, Things Can Only Get Better, booms from the audio system. It's a tenuous hope...
...lone drawback to the production is the unfortunate fact that only a lucky 40 people have the pleasure of participating each weekend; but that sacrifice is necessary for the intimacy of the production...