Word: shores
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Meeting at a quiet conference center on Maryland's Eastern Shore, negotiators for Israel and Syria held informal discussions with U.S. State Department officials in an attempt to restart the peace dialogue. The talks had collapsed six months...
Brown (1-5) may be better than its record indicates. The Bears have had a tough time of it lately, losing three games by a combined margin of just seven points, the last two to St. Francis (NY) and Maryland-Eastern Shore. But with senior guards Steve Silas and Eric Blackiston beginning to find their touches from outside, they are sure to bounce back...
...noblest in Sabbath, and perhaps in Roth, is the coming-full-circle, the rejoining of ends. Recalling his Jersey Shore childhood, Sabbath is a modern day Thornton Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...
Even when "family preservation" is the right goal in theory, caseworkers say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to enact, owing to wholesale cuts in the programs they use to shore up a household in crisis. Drug and alcohol counseling, mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and parenting courses have already been scaled back in most places, and may disappear entirely under the legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less...
Perhaps the greatest strength of this unconventional production of "The Tempest" is Freeman's strong conventional performance. Prospero is a magician exiled from his dukedom who seeks revenge. When the men who betrayed him are near the shore of his island, he sends a storm to wreck their ship and bring them all onto the shore. As he plans revenge, oversees the engagement of his daughter Miranda (Jessalyn Gilsig) to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Scott Ripley) and foils Caliban's plot against his life, Freeman evokes every doubt, conviction and emotion Prospero experiences. He is temperamental and harsh with...