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...writer of the book and lyrics for Paul Simon's long-awaited musical The Capeman, he has a Broadway opening this month--an unusually suspenseful opening. The Capeman, which tells the story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican teen who killed two white youths in a Manhattan playground in 1959, has been plagued by a drumbeat of doomsaying in the New York media, last-minute changes and a postponed opening date. The Nobel curse may be chasing Walcott, but his productivity seems unaffected. His most recent book of poetry, The Bounty, was published last summer to good reviews...
...Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen...
Even when she was just a child on the playground in her hometown of Falls Church, Va., Annina Burns could see that some of her playmates were lacking toys, clothes and often attention. At age 15 she was still troubled by the inequity, and one day found herself turning to the section on human services in the telephone book. She began to dial. Her call to the Embry Rucker Community Shelter, a facility that houses homeless children in nearby Reston, would better not only the lives of hundreds of children but Annina's life as well...
...small feat. For the Amistad was eventually taken into custody by a U.S. Navy vessel, and the mutineers charged with murder, threatened with a return to slavery and forced to stand trial three times before they were freed by a Supreme Court decision. Worse, their case became a playground for special interests: abolitionists not at all certain their cause wouldn't be better served if they allowed the blacks to be martyred; a President, Martin Van Buren, running for re-election and trying to appease the slave states by suborning justice; Spain's child Queen furious over the loss...
...securities markets are not the same thing as the economy, and press reports that suggest the two are equivalent are misguided. Your article relates how mystifying the market plunge is in terms of either the current economy or any reasonable predictions about it. The U.S. markets are the playground of the securities-exchange members. The small traders, even those with online access, did not participate in the panic; only the members on the floor did. To ask "What is the market telling us about the economy?" is to ignore your own analysis. JACK REPENNING Santa Clara, Calif...