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...down the middle between men and women. The men, mostly former convicts, expect the women to uphold a higher standard of morality, to "have souls." Too often, however, the women fail in the moment of trial. Vassilissa (Kimberly J. Ravener '03), Peppel's landlady and sometime mistress, is as pure an expression of bitchiness as recent memory offers. The one potential for action in the play comes when she tries to persuade Peppel to kill her husband. Nothing comes of it. That ambition is as abortive as any other. Adding to the cycle of destitution, Vassilissa and Peppel...
...Well, if you think about it, that's a lot like our current presidential race. And of the two candidates, it's possible that I'm the one who is more boring and less exciting. But you know what? That's a lot better than being a force of pure, unmitigated evil...
...Israelis and the Palestinians want to make it the capital of their state. I say Jerusalem should be left alone. It is a place in which to pay homage, not to formulate government policies. Making Jerusalem an administrative capital would only aggravate the situation. Jerusalem should be left pure, holy and free. PUANESVARAN SUBRAMANIAM Kuala Lumpur...
...Italian footage offers the view of a tourist meandering through a foreign landscape, happening upon scenes and subjects. Agnes shot pure observational footage in Italy, never developing any particular characters or a specific narrative, but focusing on the spontaneity of situations. In one scene she shoots an intimate moment between a boy and a girl by the sea in Naples, and in another she captures a church procession. It seems a daunting task to take your camera out and film strangers, but Agnes says that "what lent itself to this idea is that I'm a tourist...
...instance, one of the Gore/DNC campaign objectives has been to discredit Bush's Texas record, in much the same way that President Bush successfully trashed the Massachusetts Miracle that was Dukakis' intended trump card in 1988. The Gore campaign has achieved its task in pure terms - there is certainly an awareness that Texas isn't quite the Garden of Eden that Bush has been portraying. But at the same time they were also trying to convey the belief that Bush, as a one-and-half-term governor of a state where the chief executive has very little power, would therefore...