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...regime is not shy about its embrace of violence. The MDC, say Zimbabwe's rulers, is an instrument of a Western plot to restore the white rule it overthrew at independence in 1980. On June 13, Mugabe was quoted by the Herald as saying that Zimbabwe's voters had made a "mistake" by giving Tsvangirai a majority, one that "can cause a lot of suffering for the people if we go back to war." The militias had asked him if they could do just that, he added. "They said this country was won by the barrel...
...hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland says. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m." (Read "Gloucester Pregnancy Plot Thickens...
...Stanton's futurist nightmare vision of the modern home computer that is our work, shop and play station. After centuries of digital reliance, he says, "We'd turn into big babies that haven't grown up, that have lost the need to mature physically and socially." The movie's plot pirouettes on the ability of the humans to show as much grit and heart as WALL?E has back on his trash planet...
Letts based the play on two real-life family events: when he was 10, his maternal grandfather drowned himself, and his grandmother spiraled into drug addiction. The rest of the outré plot twists--from money squabbles to incest--are invented, he says. Still, the shocking portrait of a pill-popping, mentally unstable, almost pathologically vicious matriarch (played by Deanna Dunagan) was close enough to reality that he had qualms about showing the play to his mother. "I knew it would be difficult for her to read," he says. "But her response was, 'I think you've been very kind...
...Plot to Save the Planet By Brian Dumaine Crown Business; 288 pages Global warming is a problem that will need more than just one good idea to solve it. Dumaine, editorial director of FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS magazine, found dozens among the entrepreneurs of the thriving green-tech industry. His new book is a lively tour of everything from green buildings and carbon-eating algae to, in this excerpt, electric cars...