Word: pascale
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...number and strength of terrorists, has instead increased them. What was needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," à la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short, rarely have the famous words of Blaise Pascal rung more true: "He who would act the angel becomes the beast." What begins as a noble moral intention to bring down a tyrant becomes a political disaster and a gigantic step backward in the long, necessary war against fascislamism. A field of ruins...
...hold a candle to Stevie Wonder’s version of “Seasons of Love†from the 1996 soundtrack. But with only a few exceptions, the entire cast approaches this new recording with a new maturity. Older and wiser, Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal have refined their performances while maintaining the quirky characters of Mark and Roger, respectively. Idina Menzel, fresh from her Tony Award-winning performance in “Wicked,†breathes new life into her hyperbolic rendition of “Over the Moon,†reimagining...
...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...that the remaining 267 HIV-positive detainees had to be released: “The Government has failed to demonstrate to this Court’s satisfaction that the detainee’s illness warrants the kind of indefinite detention usually reserved for spies and murderers.†Pascal was finally flown off of Guantánamo and settled in New York, where her children and her mother later joined...
...said ‘I got it,’†Goldstein says. “‘I know how I want to write this thing.’†Writing was one thing, but gathering information through interviews was another. Yvonne Pascal, the tortured Haitian refugee whose journey through Guantánamo is painstakingly detailed, was very reluctant to talk. “She had been a bit of a cause celebre†when she finally arrived in America, Goldstein explains, but after the reporters got her story, she dropped off their...