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Nine hundred miles away in the Western Cape, white farmer Henry Hall, who was uprooted by a quirk of the same apartheid regime, is helping his black workers become shareholders in his thriving $10 million fruit-exporting business. The 170 laborers on his farm, some descended from slaves of the original Dutch settlers, have for the first time in their lives a financial asset to pass on to their children...
...viewing current events through the prism of the Nazi and fascist past can be distorting. With the exception of Italy, neofascists wield no real power in any national parliament, and the Italian case is too much of a political quirk to be considered a harbinger of Europe's future. "The situation today is not at all the same as it was in 1933," says Karsten Voigt, a spokesman for Germany's opposition Social Democrats. "The problem in 1933 was not that there were too many Nazis but that there were too few democrats. Today we have enough democrats...
...sentences on the average 50 times more severe than penalties for other drugs? Part of it is due to a quirk in the federal law which mandates the vessel in which the LSD was stored is included in the weight of "the drug." For instance 100 hits of pure liquid LSD (which is unusable for commercial purposes and unheard of at street level) would get you 10 months, the same amount soaked into blotter paper would warrant 5 years and those doses in sugar cubes would result in 16 years...
...female actors bring the only hints of color and life to the show. As an interesting quirk, Patricia Conolly's initially strained performance improves as her character's drug abuse increases. Her greatest moment comes during the play's final monologue, leaving the audience with a disturbing eeriness at curtain-fall. Sue-Anne Morrow as the servant Cathleen is one welcome release from the monotony and moroseness of the other characters because she moves excitedly around the stage...
...ironic quirk of timing, Mrs. Bush was preparing her speech when the latest round of adultery stories erupted. But she was bearing up proudly in an interview the next day. "You know, we're talking about people's lives," she said. "It's really not a very nice thing. I should quickly tell you that the fact this comes up every four years is not an enormous surprise to me, but it's a disappointing one . . . I know it's a lie, so it doesn't bother me. But it bothers me that we've come to this...