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...putting on airs, Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...might even say, then, that the Salvador Dali painting hanging on Schacter's office wall serves more than an aesthetic purpose for this professor of psychology. The painting is a tribute to the "art" of memory--an art which colors all our lives...
Washington's continued willingness to negotiate with Haiti's military leaders stuns Aristide supporters. "Apparently," marvels Robert White, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and an unpaid adviser to Aristide, "nothing will shake the touching faith the Clinton Administration has in the Haitian military's bona fides...
...revival of the United Nations has led to a proliferation of peacekeeping and nation-building operations in places like Somalia, Cambodia, Angola and El Salvador. These are often long term operations that have social or political goals rather than military ones; they focus, not on vanquishing an enemy, but on rebuilding societies. Still, these U.N. operations often involve some military presence, and forces are still necessary both for general security and for providing occasional muscle...
Dowling allegedly suggested that he could find Diaz another job in the University, perhaps in custodial work, where the immigrant from El Salvador could "be with his own kind." Dowling has denied making the comment, and the University, the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission all ruled against Diaz when he appealed his case to them...