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CEREDASE, A BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENT for the crippling and sometimes fatal , genetic disorder called Gaucher's disease, is changing lives, even saving them -- but not always making them better. For Jeanne Rogal, 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ceredase has reduced the pain from her crumbling bones, removed the lipid deposits choking her liver, and restored her energy so she can enjoy life again. But with it comes a crushing financial burden: Ceredase can cost up to $350,000 for a year's treatment...
...Rogal has already exhausted one health-insurance policy and is whittling down a second. Although Medicaid pays part of the cost of the drug, the government dictates brutally austere terms: if Rogal accepts the payments, she isn't allowed to own major assets or have a bank account with more than $250 in it. "I finally have this great new life where I can do things," she says, "and I can't even save the money for a vacation...
...Keith H Rogal '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled. Of Dreams and Towers William Beckford and the Practice of Associationism Professor James S Ackerman...
...distract us, though the pacing remains subtly off--the end of each scene, including the last, comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this load; Curse would weigh down the blithest spirit with distaste for these starving and unstarving misfits, compassion for their situation, and deep-rooted discomfort at their closeness to a twisted but familiar reality...
...sense of relaxation, in fact, pervades the performance. Most of the comic leads--Feste, Olivia's drunken uncle Toby Belch, (Keith Rogal) his wimpy cohort Andrew Aguecheek, (Peter Howard), and the wench Maria (Dolly Wiggins)--stick to understatement, letting the situations and the lines do the work. This tendency results in several nearly inaudible scenes, like those ones between Sebastian (Jeremy Black) and his follower Antonio--but often it works to the play's advantage, making the occasional broad comedy doubly comic. Rogal as Toby Belch may swallow a line or two, but his grimaces in otherwise underplayed scenes spark...