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...this production may seem at times (at almost all times), it is generally faithful to the intentions of the original. Even the band's name, "Love Juice," comes from a line in Shakespeare's script. The Athens T-shirts add another dimension to the confused identity of the players mistaken for Athenians...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...forest primeval--and with a little help from magic dispersed by the minions of Oberon, king of the fairies--these relationships grow more complicated, and true love turns false through mistaken spells. Add in a band of workers rehearsing a play about Pyramus and Thisbe; Titania, the queen of the fairies and the butt of Oberon's a cruel trick; and some cacophony from "Love Juice," and the play is on its merry...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...Hartman, then, nothing is more destructive to human growth than the + mistaken belief that if a people does not have everything (i.e., all the land), it has nothing. The issue for him is whether Jews can say grace without being totally satisfied. Even more important, the question is whether religious loyalty requires believing that there is only one way. Or does Judaism affirm that no human community has access to the total truth? In responding to these questions, says Hartman, "the most profound Jewish values are at stake. Israel cannot claim the allegiance of Jews everywhere if the spiritual content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HARTMAN: Sage In a Land Of Anger | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Suddenly, the credit-travel enticement had turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare of mistaken identities, computer screw-ups and human errors, all spilling out of the vast and powerful credit-reporting system that tries to keep tabs on $720 billion in total U.S. consumer debt. But this was not just one person's bad dream. While the credit industry claims that errors are discovered in fewer than 0.5% of individual credit records, some analysts believe glitches are more common. According to a study by James Williams of Consolidated Information Services, a New Jersey credit bureau, 40% of the 150 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Your Card Is No Good | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...Mistaken identity is not the only brand of credit nightmare. Other glitches include out-of-date information, as when loan payments have been made but not yet recorded, and erroneous or inaccurate information supplied by creditors or consumers. Student-loan providers are notorious for incorrectly reporting that people have missed payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Your Card Is No Good | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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