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...Bard's A Comedy of Errors, one set of twins serves another set of twins on the island of Ephesus. At the beginning of the play, however, the city's people do not realize that there are two identical master-servant pairs, for one long-lost pair has just arrived on the island...
Predictable mishaps ensue: One of the servant twins mislays a bag of gold he never received and is nearly killed because of it; one of the master twins does not appear for dinner and nearly loses his wife. Luckily, at the end of the play, the twins realize their mistakes and all ends well...
...roadside inn in Montfermeil. Garcia has a charming--though perhaps overly mature--voice, and the audience feels the abuse she suffers in her foster home. She watches the innkeeper and his wife pamper their own daughter, Eponine (Oguma and Garcia on alternate nights), while she is treated like a servant...
These labor developments in baseball revolutionized American professional sports. Now, all the major sports leagues have some kind of free agency, and the almost indentured-servant type conditions that used to be the norm in player-team relationships are just a vague memory to today's athletes--in large part because of baseball...
...says Omar Belhouchet, an Algiers newspaper editor who has survived two assassination attempts. Even middle-class people who are frightened by the fundamentalists have little faith in the government. "Every official statement for the past three years claims to have broken with the past," says an exasperated civil servant. "But we haven't seen an iota of change...