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Since Sept. 11, the New York theater has been under a lot of pressure to prove its relevance. Some Broadway shows, like Noises Off and Mamma Mia!, have done their bit for the war effort by offering escape: innocent laughs or peppy songs. Metamorphoses takes a tougher, more rewarding tack. It doesn't turn away from human troubles and tragedy; it looks for their larger meaning, their place in the divine scheme, the way they can lead to understanding, acceptance and (with luck) redemption. They also make for great stories. Like Julie Taymor's The Lion King, Metamorphoses is avant...
...team (along with overt public racism when he and Piccolo became the Bears' first interracial roomies). But it cuts a key scene in which Piccolo calls Sayers a "nigger" to get a rise out of him, an apparent sop to contemporary sensibilities. Phifer's Sayers is a tougher nut to crack than Williams'; as Piccolo, Maher is a charming wiseacre, but a little too sprightly. Caan's wry, macho Piccolo was a football player. Maher's is an especially buff comedian...
...best assignments don't come to those who wait. John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm in Chicago, recommends building networks of contacts to meet the right people. "Act early, and get a plan rather than take a couple years off," he says. "It's tougher the longer...
...eight sub- Saharan African nations including Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Senegal have passed legislation or announced presidential decrees banning FGM. Africa's courts are also getting tougher. In a historic ruling last December, a Kenyan court issued an order preventing a father from forcing his daughters, aged 15 and 17, to undergo circumcision. Women's groups across Africa applauded the ruling...
...Knowing the rules of the game has been tougher for women,” Robertson said...