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...abuse, but they stay for the words. LaBute's sharp lines ride along on natural rhythm and casual wit. His pointed dialogue regularly inspires comparisons between the 42-year-old writer and two long-established masters of acerbic, dysfunctional exchanges, Harold Pinter and David Mamet. As a nod to their influence on him, LaBute has dedicated plays to both. It's the acid-tipped everydayness, both devastating and dangerously funny, that translates well, making him as popular in Europe as he is in the U.S. "He's bold, unapologetic and willing to go where others don't dare," says Eckhart...
...earlier in the year when a group of its high-flying parents demanded a greater say in the school council's choice of headmistress. Elsewhere, some teachers admit that when school captain/prefect elections are close, the candidate with the ubiquitous mother or father is more likely to get the nod. Parents who test teachers' nerves come in various types. Principals will often meet the demanding parent before the child is enrolled. This mother or father will have 20 questions along the lines of, Why should I entrust my precious child to you? "Just once," says a Sydney primary-school principal...
...nod knowingly, but I am not fooling my subject...
...diplomatic roundelay was a heartening shift in the pattern of Middle East maneuvering, but will the renewed to-ing and fro-ing about peace yield concrete results? Not many diplomats were willing to venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the Israeli nod toward an international forum for the peace process is "a substantive development." Said a U.S. official: "It means we can begin to talk seriously." --By George Russell. Reported by John Borrell/Cairo and Roland Flamini with Peres
...shabbily written newspaper content to doze in the shadow of its bigcity neighbor, the Los Angeles Times. Its news columns were infected with the libertarian philosophy of its editorials (public schools were called "tax-supported schools"), and the biggest headlines were saved for crime and sex stories. A sympathetic nod should also have gone to Chris Anderson, whom Threshie picked as the paper's editor in 1980. A onetime disk jockey and former associate managing editor of the Seattle Times, Anderson, then 30, had never run a newspaper. Anderson, in fact, had not even heard of the Register...