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...shabby industrial area of Minsk, the capital, he watched an underground theater performance. The Belarus Free Theater (FT), a group of some 40 playwrights, directors, producers and actors, operates in the repressive regime of President Alexander Lukashenko. Stoppard was there to see FT's first-ever production, a Russian translation of 4.48 Psychosis, a play by another British playwright, Sarah Kane, about a suicidal young woman. The subject matter is deemed dangerously subversive in the paranoid world of the last Soviet-style dictatorship in Europe, so the FT mounted the play quietly. "It's not without precedent, this situation," Stoppard...
Beyond saying that "unnecessary spending" must be targeted, the President has suggested few specific cuts of his own so far. During a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day after his televised speech, however, Bush stressed that more tax cuts remained a top priority. Neither side of the aisle has seemed capable of demonstrating fiscal prudence and compassion simultaneously, while the President, hobbled by a $331 billion budget deficit, an unpopular and expensive war in Iraq, and an official admission that he mishandled the initial crisis, could neither afford his Gulf Coast largesse--nor afford not to extend...
Much of Levenson's work depicts old-fashioned working-class life--people felling trees, mining a granite quarry, repairing locomotives, working a farm. That reflects his own blue collar background in Danvers, Mass. His Russian-immigrant parents were poor, but his mother, a seamstress, and father, a tailor, bequeathed good genes to Levenson and his three younger sisters. Today two sisters are also in their 90s, and the "baby" will be 87 on Sept. 30. Levenson, who yearned to be an illustrator, was able to attend the Massachusetts College of Art but left during the Depression. The only work...
...first match I got to this morning is a perfect example. There was Maria Sharapova on Court 7, uh, wait a minute, that?s not the No. 1 ranked Russian. She?s the feature attraction at the evening session. No, it?s 16-year-old Nicole Vaidisova, another one of those Eastern European wonder women. A Czech, she?s just short of six feet tall with legs that go from Prague to Brno and the power to hit the ball just as far. This kid can smash it. She?s seeded 26th in Queens, but she reached the 3rd round...
...Only Kesayev's commission of inquiry has broken new ground, forcing prosecutors and military officers to admit that rocket-launched incendiary grenades and tank shells had been used, details that had previously been denied. Russian officials say these weapons did not cause the fire in the school, and tanks were called in only after all the surviving hostages had been freed. Kesayev, who was in the Russian emergency command center in Beslan throughout the crisis, also claims that the Kremlin deliberately failed to respond to an offer by moderate Chechen guerrilla leader Aslan Maskhadov (killed by Russian special forces...