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...scientific method can be used to strike back at the talking heads that invade the national airwaves every night (here’s looking at you, ESPN) with their a priori arguments and baseball superstitions...
...party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves. The Dahab attacks - the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months - came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country...
...Dahab attacks--the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months--came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting...
...Lazarcheck says of this production—is bound to attract some attention, not all of it favorable, from purists. Yet all of the members of the cast and staff contacted by The Crimson emphasize their reverence for the text. “We have strived to strike a balance between maintaining the classical aspects of the play and creating a production that is unique, fresh and accessible,” says Golin, a co-producer of the show. Zalisk agrees. “Our goal...is to make this old, important story live and breathe...
Catenaccio says that her staging of the play will strike a compromise between contemporary and Classical aesthetic preferences: “We’ve tired to keep the play funny, and we’ve added a few modern jokes, but a level of remove from the contemporary world preserves the work’s sense of fantasy...