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Although there are only a few moments in which there is actually only one character on stage, the drama nevertheless centers around an individual performance. In Maggie and Brick’s first scene, Rich rattles off an impressive soliloquy. Brick lies listlessly on the bed and the relatives make a hullabaloo back stage, but Rich seems to be the only person in the theater. While Rich initially over-dramatizes her frustration, her character becomes increasingly real over the course of the play...
...Will Rule Pakistan? The question is paramount and critical at this moment. If the Musharraf-Bhutto deal has fallen through, then Pakistanis are left with an extremely unpopular dictator who nevertheless is the only moderating force on a military-and-security apparatus that many fear harbors extremist elements. Bhutto, whose return to Pakistan was a nod toward democratic ideals, already believes that members of Pakistan's government and intelligence agencies knew about the attack on her homecoming convoy and helped plan it. Musharraf's closest foreign allies have long feared that those same military and intelligence bodies still include officials...
...leaders gathered around her car cheered. The police started laying down another two rows of barbed wire, further locking her in. A water cannon truck pulled up. Still, Bhutto remained defiant. "We consider this a victory because there is no government today. We brought the government to a standstill." Nevertheless, she told the crowd, "If he restores the constitution, takes off his uniform, gives up the office of the chief of army staff and announces an election by Jan. 15, then it's okay." And if he doesn't, she said, "We will come out and fight...
...Nevertheless, that same day, more than 6,000 miles away, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seemed to ignore any such olive branches. He declared that his country now has 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges at Natanz churning out highly enriched uranium that he says will be used to generate electrical power. But Washington and its allies fear that Iran's enrichment capability will be used to create fissile material for nuclear bombs. So, the U.S. continues to hedge its bets. After all, while it released two of the five Iranians captured in Irbil...
...Sciences—or its 18-member executive body—would overrule the Dean of the College.Ultimately, the UC is still facing the exact same reality that it faced a month ago: It is an association of students in an institution where the real power lies with administrators. Nevertheless, this is far from a statement proclaiming the UC useless. It has had many successes as an advocacy organization in past years that have improved the quality of student life immeasurably. Those successes, however, almost always depend on the goodwill of faculty and administrators to student concerns—particularly...