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...forward in college, he will join a Rapids club that is already loaded with top striking talent. Forwards Conor Casey—a member of the U.S. Men’s National Team—and Omar Cummings had 24 goals and 13 assists between them during MLS play last season. But the Rapids expect Akpan to mix in well with their current roster and hope to provide him with ample learning experience...
...modern audience through his effective and restrained use of video footage and dream sequences. While such contemporary touches to a firmly historical show might risk losing the substance in the spectacle, Esbjornson is careful to only use these effects to enhance the material and maintain the integrity of the play...
...character. His Joe is one part Mister Rogers and one part Gordon Gekko, with a hint of Vito Corleone mixed in for good measure. A suggestion of darkness hides in Lyman’s friendly neighborhood persona, the many aspects of which he effectively explores throughout the play. Lyman’s only fault is the apparent mouth full of cotton balls he possesses every time he speaks, but his diction is never so unintelligible as to be distracting...
These weaknesses, however, do not detract from the intensity of Miller’s play and Esbjornson’s skillful direction. Esbjornson’s opening lightning-struck apple tree is eventually brought offstage: many American principles, too, have been shattered in the process, their damaged pieces ready to be reconstructed to establish a more positive national morality...
...tests of whether the Democrats will extend their gains of recent years or succumb to the same backlash that propelled Republican Scott Brown to his upset victory in the Massachusetts Senate race this week. The stakes are particularly high in Michigan, because whoever is elected governor will play a crucial role in redrawing legislative districts in the wake of the 2010 U.S. Census, which is expected to show significant population declines here during the past decade. (See the top 10 everything...