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This week the chief Chief Executive has invited the heads of some 60 companies to the White House to raise the c.r. issue. The timing seems a bit odd. The economy is moving along nicely, it seems, and the unemployment rate is a low 5.4%, courtesy of the more than 8 million jobs created, ahem, in the past 31/2 years. Yet the anxiety rate among workers, still being spit out in huge numbers by a transforming economy, is high enough to give the Democrats a platform. And Clinton will use it to spotlight corporations--Procter & Gamble, Harley-Davidson, Xerox...
...right to left (at least across the page--The Crimson never moves right of left, I'm afraid), the next editorial we come to is Emily R. Carrier's "'She' Remains on the Margins." While I sympathize with Ms. Carrier's unfortunate choice of thesis advisor, I find it odd that she could write so bluntly that she does not recommend anyone read her thesis. Was it so poorly written, or so uninteresting, that she wishes it to be buried along with the other reams of unread academic research by this year's senior class? If Ms. Carrier went...
Nothing is more galling about the post-Dayton behavior of suspected war criminals than the way some flaunt their freedom and stolen riches. Zeljko Raznatovic, who fought under the nom de guerre Arkan, is the most notorious of Serbia's paramilitary chiefs. He personally led his 200-odd Tigers through Bosnia to rape, torture and murder. Yet he has not even been indicted, and today he shows up all over Belgrade. He lives in a luxe marble mansion that he clearly did not buy out of earnings from his cafe. He is affiliated with Belgrade's biggest soccer club...
...Freidrich Abendsland, as the ever-confident yet consistently odd William Hard, manages to keep us balancing on the razor's edge of discomfort at which the play's confusion aims. He manages this wonderfully, despite having to deliver tiresome recurring jokes about a mysterious element called tantalum...
Finally, it would be a disservice to the play to omit mention of the various other experimental devices or odd techniques. These range from the set pregnant with meaning (the plain soil of a garden; the sexually suggestive rope of a swing) to the rather obtrusive lighting (a programmed sequence of flashes as Dora polishes a plate). The sun seems to rise and set in the same place, or never to set; a moon figures prominently as well. Singing crops up now and again unexpectedly. Sound effects--a car starting, space-aged boings--provide a sort...