Word: sackful
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...DYBBUK. The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club presents Julia Pascal’s “The Dybbuk,” a Yiddish folktale adapted to take place in the Holocaust. The play, directed by Graham A. Sack ’03, follows five prisoners in a ghetto while waiting for Nazi death camps, and their reclamation of Jewish culture through folklore at the brink of their destruction. Plays through Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., with special performances on Tuesday, April 29 (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Tickets free, available at the Loeb Box Office (617) 547-8300. Loeb Experimental Theater...
...making the case that Saddam government was an odious regime and that the debt it incurred should not encumber the people of Iraq. The legal case for this has its roots in America's repudiation of Cuba's debts after the Spanish American War. After World War I Alexander Sack, a French economist developed the legal theory that loans to despots were personal loans and not sovereign debts. Lenders to Iraq warn that adopting this policy could do irreparable harm to Iraq's ability to borrow in the future...
...only every five hours. Otamendi, 45, says the police humiliated him for his homosexuality, telling him to "take the position I use when my lover and I make love." On the third day, he says, they gave him the notorious treatment known as la Bolsa - "the bag" - a plastic sack pulled over the head to cause a panic they hoped would compel him to name his ETA contacts. But Otamendi insists he has none. His only relationship with the terrorists, he says, was several interviews conducted years ago. "There's never been any suggestions from ETA to our paper...
...debut novel, The Guru of Love, Upadhyay applies his cool hand to universal themes like money worries, infidelity and evil mothers-in-law. He tells his story well?even if we have heard it before. The book's title is a cosmic joke on its sad-sack protagonist. Middle-aged Ramchandra is far from a guru of love, or much of anything except for mathematics, which he teaches at a grubby Kathmandu school and to private students desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move...
...machetes, clubs and spears, they slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. And now Uwize and thousands of other killers are coming home. At the end of January Uwize, 37, walked out of a Kigali prison carrying a small green plastic bag containing his entire wardrobe and a sack filled with the odds and ends accumulated during his almost nine years of imprisonment: water cans, pots, pans and an old pair of sports shoes. Along with other prisoners, he boarded a waiting white bus that would take him to his home for the next two months: Gashora Solidarity Camp...