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...Olivier Award for Play of the Year in 1991, is a three-person show about the violent confrontation between a rape victim and the man she believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya ’05) has been appointed head of a committee...
...Olivier Award for Play of the Year in 1991, is a three-person show about the violent confrontation between a rape victim and the man she believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya ’05) has been appointed head of a committee...
...thus liberated tens of millions of people, precisely because we prudently, albeit reluctantly, tolerated unfreedom in certain places. Why? In order to win the larger battle for freedom on the global scale. Today we "coddle" Musharraf of Pakistan, Mubarak of Egypt, the Saudi princes. Yesterday we coddled Pinochet of Chile, Marcos of the Philippines, the Shah of Iran, Mobutu of Zaire and a train of South Vietnamese generals...
Alliance with hell is justified as long as it is temporary. When Hitler was defeated, we stopped coddling Stalin. Forty years later, as communism ebbed, the U.S. helped overthrow Marcos and ease out Pinochet. We withdrew our support for those dictators once the two conditions that justify such alliances had disappeared: the global Soviet threat had receded and a domestic democratic alternative had emerged...
...side of civil liberties, an awful lot of Americans could lose their lives" [WAR ON TERROR, June 24]. But civil liberties are strongly associated with greater safety and security for the average citizen. Just think of countries without them: Afghanistan under the Taliban, Iraq, Chile under Pinochet, Somalia. Then ask yourself how safe you would feel living in those countries. I would not feel very safe living in a country where the government can arrest and detain indefinitely any citizen it chooses without trial or due process, as in the case of Jose Padilla. BRUCE ZUIDEMA Robbinsville...