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This flatness stems more from the play itself than from any fault in Uphoff's direction, as Brian Clark's script seems to permit little deviation from the conventional. The play centers on the anger and alienation caused by Harrison's injury and the impersonality of the hospital staff. Doctors and nurses must act detached to perform their jobs effectively, and in portraying the hospital personnel, the actors must adopt this same aloofness. Contrasted with the emotional charge of Harrison's scenes, those featuring these professionals are often dull...
Carter's message, which he repeated to Premier Li Peng and Communist General Secretary Jiang Zemin, produced no visible results, though the former President did receive assurances that Chinese students in the U.S. who obtain a permit to return home will not be harassed or arrested once back in China. Chinese analysts believe the regime may have let Carter speak to help persuade Washington to continue most-favored-nation trade relations...
...referendum--the largest in Princeton history--students resoundingly approved PIRG. Rudenstine refused to honor the results. No matter what one thinks of PIRG, it simply wasn't right for Rudenstine to allow students to organize for a referendum that the University would never permit to take effect. The entire affair left a bitter legacy with students, alumni and faculty...
Surprisingly, no critics turned up at the Clear Creek hearing last February at which county commissioners unanimously approved a two-year special-use permit to allow construction of the 140-ft. tower on land zoned for mining. "I expected hordes of people to come out against this, but the only concerns were about transportation and parking," says Carl Finocchiaro, president of Bungee Jumping Colorado. "I was absolutely dumbfounded. The whole concept of bungee jumping was supported...
...decades, South Africa's policy of apartheid has rested upon a set of rigid laws reserving 87% of the land for the nation's white minority and requiring strict housing segregation. Last week President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation that would repeal all racial restrictions on land ownership and permit all South Africans to live where they choose...