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...part, the Kurdish delegates, who represented the four major Kurdish organizations, figured they were negotiating from strength. Not only has Saddam been weakened by his defeat in the gulf war, but, explains a European spokesman for the Kurdish Front in Paris, "this is the very first time that the plight of the Kurds has been internationalized." The minority leaders are also desperate to bring their people home, down from their squalid border shelters where they are perishing by the hundreds every day. If a shaky truce is the price, so be it. The Kurdish chieftains feel especially responsible for ending...
Unfortunately, the strength of Chick's performance highlights the play's greatest flaw. A drama so focused on the plight of one charismatic individual has difficulty sustaining interest when that character is not involved in the on-stage action. Chick's impassioned acting enhances this contradictory aspect of the play--he is so absorbing that the scenes in which he is not involved appear flat...
Inspired by the plight of his people, he said, he decided to become "the voice of the voiceless, an unofficial spokesman of my people...
From the beginning, the Opportunes demonstrated the comic flair that differentiates them from other campus singing groups. A barrage of jokes about the Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds and President Bush's "New World Order" jolted the audience into full attention...
This portrait of privileged classes in late 19th century Russia is especially poignant in view of the desperate plight of the Soviet Union today. When Alexander Ignatevich Vershinin (Woody Hill) tries to make sense of the Russian people's suffering by predicting a brighter future for his descendants, it becomes clear that the current generation of Soviets possess little but this same, small hope...