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Sushi Sunday begins at 9 p.m. and goes until about 1 a.m. Because Topjian’s is a one-man once-a-week operation, the menu is small: California rolls ($4), eel rolls ($5), cucumber rolls ($3) and a twelve-piece California/eel roll combo ($8). He must compromise between authenticity and economy. “I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible for now and also accommodate what people want to eat,” he says. “People like California rolls and eel—that’s the reality...
...Authority, looking to uncover malfeasance. When they are done, according to an agreement Arafat signed in August under pressure from U.S. and European officials who threatened to cut aid, the Authority's investments will be given over to a fund administered by independent Palestinian businessmen. That will end the one-man dominion Arafat has enjoyed over Palestinian funds for decades, first as chairman of the P.L.O. and since 1994 as head of the Palestinian Authority...
...show up at someone’s door and they don’t have candy, I will blast my boombox and throw a one-man dance party in their common room to teach them a lesson,” he said...
...reason, producer Katherine O’Gara ’05 calls it a “truly original production” and one that will be of great interest to anyone who “wants to see something that is really a creative endeavor.” The show is set in the 1940s and focuses on Ben Murphy, an office worker struggling to escape job pressures and conformity who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock and the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized society. O’Gara describes...
...Burma begins like that of any gap-year activist. In 1996, inspired by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's book Freedom from Fear, he hooks up with a refugee group in Burma, where he teaches English. Soon he hungers for a direct confrontation with the regime. After his one-man protest in Rangoon is broken up (it consists of Mawdsley locking himself to a gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism. "The powerfully written reports...