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...Making cleat marks and crashing into other solid bodies on the same field where my brothers had played,” Ted Kennedy writes in “True Compass,” his recently-released memoir, “it didn’t seem that life could hold anything better than that...
...Donkey Show,” co-directed by Paulus and Randy Weiner, attempts to bring those good times back, by transporting the audience into the club atmosphere that many of them left behind in the 70s—and that some unknowing theater tagalongs clearly seem to have wished stayed that way. Even before the show begins, Tytania’s glittering fairies—adapted to the more modern interpretation of the term rather than the supernatural Shakespearean conception—work to set the tone for the evening. In a style that would do Of Montreal?...
...talent shone through on the turf.From the very beginning, Keating grew up surrounded by her favorite sport. The Crimson standout’s hometown of Bryn Mawr, Penn. is a field hockey hotspot and, as one of six sisters—all of whom play competitively—Keating seemed destined to pick up a stick.“Field hockey is really big in my area, even more so because I went to Catholic school,” Keating says. “When I was younger, my grade school didn’t even offer soccer...
...vision of a modern, peaceful nation the government is normally at pains to portray to the rest of the world. Such discrepancies probably matter little to those planning the anniversary parade. They know there is only one audience for this particular extravaganza: the Chinese people. And Beijingers don't seem concerned that their city has been turned into a high-security zone once again. "The rehearsal was a major headache, you couldn't get anywhere because of the traffic jams," says a chic woman in her early 30s. "But I think everybody understands. It's a very important...
...setbacks - the assassination of its operations chief last year, the electoral loss at the polls in June this year, the discovery this spring that an Israeli spy ring in Lebanon had bugged Hizballah's vehicles - Hizballah has lost some of its aura of invincibility, and its supporters no longer seem so ready to hit the front lines and the barricades...