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...course, few people, except Ralph Nader, go to Washington hoping to change it. Many think that their pilgrimage will be brief. Often they stay and become fodder for the press or are spat out in this place where, as the late Vincent Foster put it, "ruining people's life is considered sport...
Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do nothing. They spend their time waiting, watching others, now sucked into the hurly-burly of the Danish court, now spat out. Director Arzhang Kamarei generates this hopeless tone from the outset: to the thundering strains of Mission Impossible theme song, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern race furiously round the stage on hobby horses. This wild dance builds to a galloping climax as the music ends, and then...nothing. As always, R and G rush around achieving diddly squat...
...this liaison went asunder, the bankruptcy court on March 12 turned over the paper to Hirschfeld, who promptly axed Hamill. Within hours, the mutiny was under way. The cause of the Post staff's animus toward its new chief was twofold. One, Hirschfeld fired 72 employees. Two, he once spat on a reporter from the Miami Herald, a first-rate newspaper, so there's no telling what he might do at a paper like the Post...
Climatologist Robert E. Lautzenheiser says despite a spat of warm winters and low snowfall totals, statistics show no signs of long-term warming...
CARDINALS AND BIG-CITY MAYORS OUGHT TO HAVE greater concerns than deciding who marches in local parades. But in New York City's hopelessly fractious public discourse, a spat over including homosexuals in the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration has once again grown into a political war. After the organization that has staged the parade for more than 150 years refused to permit gay groups to march under their own banner, Mayor David Dinkins handed control of the parade to an ad hoc group that favored including the gays. John Cardinal O'Connor used his pulpit to decry Dinkins...