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...year-old student, Robert Romano, is enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh and was at one time in the U.S. Marine Corps...
George Sikowski, the slow-thinking, dull-minded mayor of the town, is up for re-election. His position is shaky at best, and he desperately needs the financial support of his former teammate Phil Romano, a boorish but successful businessman. The problem is that Phil wants to support George's opponent Sharmen, ne Sharmawitz. To complicate matters even more, Phil has been sleeping with George's wife. Naturally, hostilities flare up when James takes it upon himself to enlighten George...
...intense ensemble performance, and the actors are generally able to provide it. David J. Anderson portrays convincingly the stupidly credulous George Sikowski, a tragically affecting figure who is foiled not by a lack of ambition but by a lack of brain power. Anderson and Philip Weiss (who plays Phil Romano) provide some of the play's most gripping moments in a scene where George, learning of his wife's infidelity, threatens to shoot Phil. Weiss exudes the loudly aggressive yet slightly nervous air of a threatened businessman. Although his flailing arms and gangling walk detract somewhat from the effectiveness...
...Catholic University who specializes in resuscitation. He remarked that a decision to remove the respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim of the right of 'death with dignity.' A right to death does not exist...Love for life, even a life reduced to a 'ruin...
...medieval chivalric code, partly because assassinating rival monarchs inevitably invited retaliation. In the Italian city states of the Renaissance, of course, the Medicis, Viscontis and Sforzas practiced murder against rivals in politics, love or family quarrels with satanic ardor. The first and possibly the worst was Ezzel-ino da Romano, the 13th century despot of Padua and Verona. "Here for the first time," wrote Historian Jacob Burckhardt, "the attempt was openly made to found a throne by wholesale murder and endless barbarities." Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), with his children Cesare and Lucrezia, used assassination for political ends when they...