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While limited numbers of female roles have caused tension in past seasons, this round of Common Casting promises more places for women both on and off the stage...
...Kong? The unpretentious nature of the place is conducive to rambunctious behavior, attracting folks who prefer cheap drinks and bad hip-hop to sipping twelve-dollar chocolate martinis and strutting around in tight black pants. Throw in the possible town-gown tension, and you have yourself the ideal setting for some late-night, booze-bred donnybrooking...
...extremes of poverty and suffering in North Korea are in stark contrast to the prosperity and success of South Korea. They make clear the need for renewed steps toward reconciliation. This should be done within a binational Korean framework. By ratcheting up the tension, President Bush may just force North and South Korea into each other's embrace. Let the South help the North; let families reunite and change come as it must. If only there were a South Iraq. Jane C. Nielsen Los Angeles...
...years later, as the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is marked this week, the antiabortion movement finds itself at a moment of both possibility and tension. Some think Bush has lived up to the promise of that early victory. "He's been a star," says Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, one of the House's leading abortion foes. But others say the President is in danger of squandering what they see as the biggest opportunity abortion opponents have had since Roe to severely restrict--maybe even ban--abortion. "He has tremendous political capital, and I wish...
...organizations or themselves. There are more than 700 Viet Kieu-owned enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City alone. Phil Tran's animation company, Glass Egg Digital Media, is one of them. But, says the 39-year-old whose family departed Saigon when he was 12, "There's always been tension between those who stayed and those who left." Many Vietnamese see returnees as carpetbaggers who escaped the lean 1980s and now flaunt their wealth. Viet Kieu businessmen speak of random price hikes from local merchants, sometimes open hostility. Thai says some of that may be their own fault: "Many returnees...