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...enough respect in America, brought over his own Scarborough troupe to present the U.S. premiere of his chamber piece about the interconnections among six lonely London souls. Ayckbourn's delicate, understated direction showed, once again, that laughs are the least important thing in his vision of the sad comedy of ordinary lives...
...Duhamel wrote, "Chirac has failed to tackle France's two most pressing social problems: unemployment and the integration of immigrant populations." Duhamel and other French intellectuals must now accept that all the French psychobabble about victimized youth did not explain the riots in the banlieues. What is really sad is the number of burned cars and shops it has taken to open the eyes of France's so-called intelligentsia. Nicolas Thébault Versailles, France The riots that exploded in the French suburbs are another proof, if needed, that French immigration policy is a total failure. Our demagogues have...
...very sad to hear of the passing of TIME columnist Hugh Sidey [Dec. 5]. Over the years I have always found his writing inspiring. Somehow, as he commented on Presidents and the office they held, he was able to show the significance of the seemingly insignificant in their lives. Sidey brought the best of what the U.S. stands for to readers. We shall miss him. DERICK BINGHAM Belfast, Northern Ireland...
...respond to telephone or e-mail requests for comment yesterday. Williams told The Standard-Times that the incident made him reconsider his plans to teach a course focusing on terrorism. Harvard professors found the incident disturbing. “My personal reaction is that this is a sad but perhaps predictable result of the way the war on terrorism is being pursued domestically,” Gordon said. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...about a Chicago weather reader dealing with an almost classic midlife crisis-a divorce, a disaffected child, an accomplished, disapproving (and dying) father (Michael Caine) the tempting possibility of taking his act from local to national TV. Steve Conrad's excellent script is directed as a sort of sad frenzy by Gore Verbinski and the result is a very affecting movie, offering a convincing portrait of middle class desperation that ends in unsentimental affirmation. If it could have been made as an independent production it might have had the cachet of something like The Squid and the Whale. Instead...