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...meantime, Little finds plenty of work to fill her 12-plus-hour days in the prop room, where she paints sets and cuts foam...
...terror. The tyranny of Castro’s regime is reprehensible; but its complicity in terrorism is simply unacceptable. Bush should seize this moment to marry America’s moral imperative in Cuba with its strategic one. Now is not the time to ease sanctions and prop up a desperate government; now is the time for increased pressure. A carrot-and-stick policy is fine—so long as the stick is real and unequivocal...
Opening new talks also provides an avenue for improving regional security and reshaping the flawed 1994 Agreed Framework, which most commentators consider equivalent to international blackmail. South Korea and China are unlikely to discontinue aid provisions (official and unofficial) that prop up the faltering North Korean economy, since they both hope to avoid an influx of refugees from a collapsed neighboring regime. Because of this support, their influence on Kim is strong, but they will need to forcefully assert their opposition to his nuclear program and advocate its immediate and unequivocal dismantling with extensive verification by international inspectors...
Loews owns the print and treats it like any other movie showing. But a cast and crew of more than 50 volunteers—actors, directors, lighting crews, security personnel and prop managers—works to put on the production each week. They lug their costumes from home in rolling suitcases and duffel bags. They’ve built scenery to look like the coffins and elevators in the movie, and they store it at the theater between performances...
...make no apology for those who blindly reject scientific evidence due to contrived religious doctrines; I have equally little tolerance for those who ignore scientific evidence to prop up a naturalistic anti-religious dogma...