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...turning point of the 20th century arrived in a clear, sunny sky over Hiroshima on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, in the form of a mushroom cloud that could be seen 250 miles away. President Truman's order to drop the atom bomb brought a decisive end to the war in the Pacific, but it marked the beginning of an era of dread and controversy from which we have never escaped. The issues that preoccupy us now as much as ever are not only moral ones about when it is acceptable to use weapons of mass destruction but also...
...adaptation is what sits at the heart of this 90-minute production. The familiar obstacles of the Greek play are all present. Three hookers in a jail cell serve as the play’s Sirens, an unstable, one-eyed librarian is the Cyclops, and a mushroom tea-bearing tattoo mistress combines Circe and Calypso...
...Afghan caves can't muster. Terrorist states can thrive without terrorist networks. But terrorist networks can barely exist without terrorist states. Deterrence no longer works to defeat them. Besides, the destructive power of weapons of mass destruction changes past calculations. The first smoking gun may now be a mushroom cloud. To risk that is irresponsible...
...variety of reasons. Many students choose some classes based largely on word-of-mouth, and sometimes, after hearing of a particularly talented professor, more even attend the second lecture of the year than the first. And certainly, between preregistration and the beginning of the semester, certain subject areas can mushroom in popularity after a watershed event. If students had preregistered for classes last year before Sept. 11, those tentative enrolment numbers would have drastically underestimated the demand for classes relating to the Middle East or terrorism. If there are no last-minute TFs to accommodate the extra students, the easiest...
History marks Nagasaki as one of only two places to have been devastated by an atom bomb. But four centuries before that epochal event, Nagasaki was known for something much sunnier than a dark mushroom cloud. Over a 200-year period during which Japan quarantined itself from the outside world-no explorers, no traders and above all no missionaries-Nagasaki was the one place foreigners were allowed to live. Dutch and Chinese traders, tolerated because they were not Catholic, called upon the city, leaving behind architecture, food and traditions that have been absorbed into Nagasaki's culture...