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...Female Transport" is set on a ship carrying female convicts from England to Australia in 1809. It is a historical play that dramatizes the horrible experiences women had on the ships, which were used to relieve bursting correctional facilities. Virtually all the action takes place in one cell, where six women share two mattresses, little space and all of their experiences...
...difficult to turn a ship around once it gains momentum," Forbes said. "We have felt and still feel that the president is the only one in the position as captain of the ship to turn it around...
...Chechen sympathizers continues to steam towards Istanbul, Turkish officials appear close to resolving the crisis. The hijackers have offered to release all hostages in Istanbul in return for a Friday news conference to publicize the plight of Chechnya. Turkish officials, who say that they will not let a ship that the hijackers say is packed with explosives sail through the crowded Bosporus straits to Istanbul, have offered the port city of Eregli as an alternative site. While this hostage crisis seems headed to a peaceful end, TIME's James Wilde says that its effects will be far-reaching. "Observers here...
...links with Iran. Ejup Ganic, the federation Vice President, gave Time official confirmation that Bosnia had received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps in the nato no-fly zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's kind of a science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship with ammunition and bring it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about cutting Iranian ties now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't look anywhere else...
Asked about persistent rumors that he'll soon jump ship, Bratton says even if he stays only another year, "that's enough time to consolidate our gains, so that long after I'm gone, my successors won't retreat." As for Kelly's burning-village imagery, Giuliani and Bratton dismiss such talk as sour grapes, pointing to the benefits of reduced crime being enjoyed by those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people...