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...first act, it will go off in the last act; Ibsen is so bent on his characters’ destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction to take place along the path to the final horror...
...year ago, Carlson dropped his projects at Triathlete to go abroad again—to Baghdad, where the United States was waging its most controversial war since the 1970s. There, in the weeks before a sign reading “Mission Accomplished” was strung up behind President Bush on the USS Lincoln, Carlson conducted a series of meta-interviews on his own, speaking with journalists from a wide range of news organizations about the thrills and trials, dangers and dilemmas of reporting live...
...real reason for Fallujah's impact, though, came from the gruesome images of four charred bodies dismembered beyond recognition and eventually strung up from a bridge by a euphoric mob. Those pictures revealed a deep-seated hatred of America among a section of Iraq's civilian population. Much was made of the Mogadishu comparison, the famous "Blackhawk Down" incident in which images of locals dancing over the corpse of a U.S. serviceman being dragged through the streets of the Somali capital helped prompt a U.S. withdrawal. And while nobody believes the Fallujah killings will have a similar effect, the echo...
...ever. Cavanagh, who had already etched his name in the Crimson’s postseason lore with his overtime winner against Clarkson in the 2002 ECAC semis, strung together a pair of brilliant games in his home state this weekend...
...This was an incredibly tough loss,” sophomore outside hitter Seamus McKiernan said. “We strung together some of our best play of the year tonight, but it’s a game of consistency, and we couldn’t take the momentum into the fifth game...