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Unfortunately, as the election stumbles onward, it has become ever more clear that Yale's strong showing on the ballots, at least those not marked for Pat Buchanan, is a freakish departure from the school's decidedly subpar norms. Rather than entering a new period of enlightenment and detoxification, Yale is slipping back into its long-accustomed Dark Ages. The iron gates in front of its dormitories can barely withstand the Viking onslaughts and stray bullets, and Yale's brief moment in the sun is revealed as an Indian summer before the long, howling winter of Eli discontent...
...today's directors think they should be. For years boards allowed underperforming ceos to bumble onward; after all, many board members are CEOs too. But increasing pressure has forced them to oil the trapdoor. Boards, just like stockholders, don't want to be surprised. ceos such as McGinn and Procter & Gamble's Durk Jager, who was forced out in June, were sunk by overly rosy earnings projections. In both cases, the chief executive predicted better earnings than he could deliver--twice in Jager's case, three times in McGinn's. At Gillette, director Warren Buffett, famous for his long-term...
...disillusioned young people swung toward Nader, who didn't seem to need or be asking for money. Who never asked for anything but their vote. Who argued passionately against corporate welfare and for the "little people." Meanwhile, Gore and Bush plodded onward, bickering over whose Medicare plan would save grandmothers more money on prescription drugs...
Luckily, however, these early jitters disappear as the play moves onward. Rayd Abu-Ayyash '01 gives the production's most outstanding performance as Creon, King of Thebes, whose Machiavellian exterior hides a more compassionate realism that cares more for the living than for the dead. Declaring Polynices a traitor was a political expediency, yet Creon argues it has created a peace that Antigone's actions may threaten. Abu-Ayyash has Antigone's most finely drawn character in Creon, to be sure, but he does not shrink from the task, maintaining a strong, clean elocution and succeeding at keeping his long...
...Although Israel has never tried to formally annex the West Bank and Gaza after capturing them in 1967, it began confiscating Palestinian land and building Israeli settlements from the 1970s onward in order to create "facts on the ground" in any future peace negotiations. Those facts on the ground now include some 120,000 Israeli settlers dotted throughout the West Bank and a further 5,000 in Gaza - territory that Israel, by the logic of the Oslo peace process, ultimately intends to cede to a Palestinian state. Needless to say the settlers, who are predominantly armed ideologues laying claim...