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...door and asks her cousin who they are. Irritated that her cousin will not explain what he means by "fallen women" and "rape," she questions a young boy. The boy describes how he hid under dead bodies until the massacre of his village was complete and then went to search for his mother, whom he found hanging naked in the village mosque. When pressed by Lenny to explain further, the boy states "My mother was raped" and then immediately asks Lenny if she wants to play marbles with him. The juxtaposition of extreme violence with childhood innocence highlights the senseless...
...emotional territory of Simpatico, the most recent work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, is something familiar to Kellerman. His production last year of David Mamet's American Buffalo in the Loeb Ex explored the same realm of underworld deceit and betrayal, the same search for loyalty and friendship that marks this play. That is not to say Simpatico is a large scale retreading of the same dramatic ground Kellerman mapped so clearly last year. Sam Shepard is not David Mamet. He isn't able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create...
When the meeting moved on to the president's business, Rudenstine discussed the formation of the Radcliffe Institute and the ongoing search for a new Dean to head the institute...
...search committee, Rudenstine said, is composed of 20 members, with each school represented by at least one senior faculty member...
...somewhat unusual in a democracy for police to barge in on the former prime minister and search his house, but Israel isn't exactly reeling with shock over the corruption investigation of Bibi Netanyahu. Mr. Netanyahu was due to be questioned by police on embezzlement allegations Thursday, following a Wednesday police raid in which dozens of valuables ? believed to be gifts presented him while in office ? were removed from his house. "There were certainly rumors of corruption during Netanyahu's term in office, and nobody was particularly shocked at allegations that he and his wife had pilfered the state silver...