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...director who brought composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman together for Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991). He is known for his unconventional settings of operas and plays: he set Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, and only last year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously apt and vivid...
...buying. A vendor named Jorge is doing a brisk trade in his homemade marinade of vinegar, garlic, onion, salt and cumin. ``I used to teach language at the university,'' he explains. ``But I was making only 325 pesos a month. Life is very expensive, so I have become a merchant.'' His entrepreneurial efforts earn him 1,000 pesos a day. In general, Cubans now sense that the country has turned a crucial financial corner since the black days of 1993, when the worst effects of the economic collapse were being felt. ``For a while, even among revolutionaries, there...
...weapons to U.S. allies, rather than reduce sales, as the defense industry had once feared.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays that despite Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to cut back on arms sales sharply, the new policy "does nothing to reduce the U.S role as the world's leading arms merchant." Like its predecessors, he says, the Administration still "allows a wide variety of weapons to be sold to a wide variety of nations." Defense contractors did come up one short on their wish list, though: The White House refused to continue U.S. loan guarantees to foreign countries, though contractors insisted...
...other changes in rules, though more arcane, are just as crucial and welcome: among them, eliminating three committees and 25 subcommittees, cutting the size of committee staffs by a third, limiting chairmen to six years on the job and the Speaker to eight. The Democrats were skeptical. "Eliminating the Merchant Marine Committee? Big deal!" scoffed Charles Schumer of New York...
...tarmac and instructed them to crawl toward the terminal, where the wounded were given emergency treatment, mostly for scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such a successful intervention...