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...awakening to our plight began on Tuesday, March 27 while in the audience of a performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV at the Barbican Centre in London. One of my fellow countrymen, I believe hailing from the mid-western region of our fine nation, availed himself of the opportunity to make a call on his mobile phone. He apparently wished to share his exuberance at witnessing an incredibly powerful theatrical performance with some loved one unable to be in attendance. This experience was greatly heightened by the presence of a largeish woman from Rhode Island...
...less human? If we respond with force to violent hatred, are we in the wrong? If international law does not protect us, must we be held accountable for not respecting it? The Palestinians and their supporters are rightfully indignant at the arbitrary way in which the Palestinian plight is belittled by the American press. But to respond by calling for a one-sided, simplistic understanding of the facts on the ground is just as irresponsible and just as criminal...
...student Kristina S. Bennard said she sympathized with Brown's plight, but is disappointed that he will no longer be on the show...
Think you've got a big tax bill? Consider the plight of Luis Figo. The soccer star was acquired last year by the Spanish team Real Madrid, which agreed to pay him $4 million a year and bought out his contract by paying archrival Barcelona a world record $56 million. Spanish tax authorities have not normally considered the funds for such buyouts to be income taxable to the athlete. But Barcelona--smarting from the loss of its best player--initially indicated it had received the funds from Figo rather than Real Madrid, which attracted the attention of tax officials, Spanish...
...angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments and all that stuff.'' Many people were awakened by individual experience: the plight of a homeless neighbor, the collapse of a bank, a friend's job loss...