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...cleans up, complete with caption “Bolingbroke cleans up”). “The Tragedy of King Richard the Second” is, at least in Zalisk’s incarnation, not tragic at all, but rather a dark comedy played out on a large scale. If a serious Richard would be infuriating in his obliviousness to the problems that beset him, this Richard is amusingly so. While some of the choices were a bit strange, changing tragedy into comedy made the play a highly entertaining experience. —Reviewer Elisabeth J. Bloomberg can be reached...
...seminal 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities--miffed the powerful and revolutionized the field; in Toronto. She challenged the accepted wisdom on urban renewal--razing areas and erecting isolated, uniform housing projects--arguing instead for restoring old buildings, creating new ones of similar scale and mixing residents and merchants in a happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower Manhattan she helped defeat, Jacobs was arrested for storming the podium at a hearing. She said...
...Will full-scale war break out? The L.T.T.E.'s political head in Trincomalee, S. Elilan, says the Tigers are ready to unleash attacks that would be "catastrophically disabling and devastating to the enemy," but adds that the rebels have no wish to "adversely affect the peace process." Government defense spokesman Keheliya Ram-bukwella speaks of "coordinated retaliation" that will "continue as long as the L.T.T.E. targets the security forces." But President Mahinda Rajapakse, a nationalist, declared himself a "man of peace" last week...
...Hitler at creating the atom bomb. If that was a problem of national security, this is a problem of global security concerning all nations. Hence an equivalent international commitment is needed, instead of bickering among developing and industrialized nations and gimmicks like carbon trading that do not address the scale of the problem. All nations must act decisively. Peter Priyantha Dias Nugegoda, Sri Lanka...
...clear that most present-day global warming is a consequence of the developed world. For the developing world (especially India and China), any project to reduce its environmental impact on a large scale will be ambitious and costly. But the ambition is definitely there. There should be a new Kyoto-style agreement that would have the developed world, especially the U.S., finance such a project. That way the developed world will pay compensation for the harm it has done to the environment and will be instrumental in saving our planet. Vineet Pande Stockholm...