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...Keening” is a document of modern life in Colombia, but not a histrionic one. It portrays both the mundane and the shocking, the joyful and the tragic. By doing so with restraint and humor, playwright Humberto Dorado has managed to create a play that stands above its politics...
...older man, his death, her subsequent employments and romances, her friendships, and the places that she lived. The political elements first creep into the play near its end—in the brief mentions of her son’s mysterious activities—and then become overwhelming and tragic in the last 20 minutes...
...crime or just a tragic mistake? A Spanish judge opted for the former when he issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers alleged to be responsible for firing a 120-mm tank shell into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on April 8, 2003, killing Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and José Couso from the Spanish network Telecinco. Judge Santiago Pedraz's order charged that the Americans had committed a possible "crime against the international community." He said he issued the warrant because his court had received no response to its request for information about legal proceedings under...
...tragic part of the human condition but is sometimes necessary to combat such evils as slavery, fascism and, yes, terrorism. The Iraq war, however, will achieve no noble purpose. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and democracy will exist in Iraq for about as long as U.S. troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is unnecessary and a tragic blunder...
...tragic part of the human condition but is sometimes necessary to combat such evils as slavery, fascism and, yes, terrorism. The Iraq war, however, will achieve no noble purpose. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and democracy will exist in Iraq for about as long as U.S. troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is unnecessary and a tragic blunder...