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Armored vehicles rumble through Jakarta?s burning streets, empty except for implacable rioters; the value of the currency plummets with the rising death toll, foreign diplomats evacuate their families, and the aging dictator talks about getting ?closer to God.? Indonesians could be forgiven for thinking the impossible had become the inevitable -- that Suharto was about...
Jones' complaints about HMOs, reportedly concerning bureaucratic red tape having to do with his HIV-positive status, were immediately obscured by complaints about what had just been shown. Local stations were inundated with phone calls; station managers, already aghast at what their cameras had captured, broadcast apologies and toll-free numbers for viewers to call for psychological counseling. Says Larry Perret, news director for KCBS-TV, which pulled away just before the fatal shot was fired: "With all due respect to my competitors, you couldn't have anticipated this. This was a legitimate news story...
...night gaming sessions, (he normally spends several hours during the weekday and the entire weekend gaming), have taken their toll. Landry has, among other things, slept through classes ("I attend classes if and when they interest me," he said) and is currently taking the semester...
...space, no one can hear you squeak. Scientific progress has claimed the lives of 45 baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia, five times the expected death toll, after the mothers of these experimental rodents refused to suckle their young. It's a pretty serious blow, not least for the brain development tests astronauts were hoping to run. Now NASA is set to placate the fears of animal rights groups with an official rat death inquiry...
...unqualified genius (having the audience fill out a fake survey, for instance, or putting the curtain call in the middle, for instance, or allowing "The Dry Salvages" to speak through the windbag New Bedford fisherman--again, the versatile Monteleoni), the intellectual demands # made on its audience took their toll on our sense of the pleasure of drama. Perhaps the discombobulation of meaning in # is only perceived, or at least fully deliberate--in either case one must report one's own failure of understanding. This is a play to see, not only for its high Harvard humor, but for the chance...