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...book, the initial shock of the suicide has spread through the network of characters and dissipated. The plot appears a mechanical process, divorced from the actions of those whom it surrounds. McNally creates no rapport between the story and the subjects, no common development of scope and substance. The narrative never takes off, never generates its own momentum, never grows--it just plays itself...
...TANGLED EQUATION OF BALKAN POLITICS, neutrality is a chimera. That was the first painful lesson of the U.S. airdrop of food and medical supplies over Bosnia, an effort widely touted as nonmilitary in intent and, by offering help to all, evenhanded in scope. In night after night of high-altitude cargo clearing missions, U.S. C-130 aircraft parachuted tons of goods to the republic's warring multiethnic residents. But the rain of relief had unpleasant consequences. Not only did it make sniper targets out of many who ventured out to retrieve it, but it may also have helped provide cover...
...only is Eliot unique in the amount of financial resources it devotes to public service, Lee says, but the residents' individual commitments allow these projects to grow in prestige and scope. "If we do have a stereotype now, our former elitism would have been washed away by 'volunteerism,'" he says. "That's what sets up apart from other houses...
...scope of the week will extend beyond science's veiled gender biases, and will spotlight some traditionally ignored cultural perspectives...
Audiences around the world gawk at the production's snazz and scope: / lightning bolts, trapdoors, a musician's tomb that is bigger than Grant's. They bathe in the show's warm melody and soap-opera suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...