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...over his mishandling of last year's conflict with Russia. The demonstrators, representing a wide range of opposition parties, criticized Saakashvili's lavish lifestyle and his defeat in the war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Some threw carrots and cabbage at the presidential residence, released a live rabbit (to represent, they said, his rabbitlike cowardice against Russia) and mocked him in political theater performances. But after a week, the number of protesters had dwindled to fewer than 20,000. Saakashvili has so far refused to step down...
...Troy,” a fictional extension of an ancient city. The travesty of men aggressively raping women in concentration camps—as presented in the play—is an atrocity unattached to a specific time or place. It is almost as though Lotte falls into a rabbit-hole, only to emerge in a wreckage of smoke and mirrors. The reality of the play is disorienting, and solid ground exists only in the characters’ personal sufferings. The eerie presence of dolls furthers this surreal effect. The play flirts shamelessly with the line between doll and human...
Leverett’s game of Survivor—so dubbed supposedly due the House Master’s disapproval of the violent undertones of “Assassins”—began Monday at 8 a.m. and is being carried out in true Rabbit-style...
...these comments cast the Treasury as a collection of desperate people, cornered by the faltering financial system, who are willing to pull any rabbit that they can find out of their hats. This makes the new Geithner plan for public /private partnerships to buy toxic bank assets look like a carnival show. It was not heartening to see that the Treasury admitted that it did not have many takers for this new program, so it extended the deadline for applications by two weeks until April 24. Unfortunately, world class financiers keep track of things like dates. Those who have passed...
...wise rabbit had a reminder both for in-house formal defenders and those ready to give HoCo a good pre-formal flogging: “Guys, it is just a dance.” Sure. You can say that again. A dance that’ll take place in a musky library instead of 52 stories above the city...