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...forever linked to the horrors of Abu Ghraib - he appears in at least one al-Qaeda propaganda video depicting the abuse - and that he and comrades serving with him in Iraq could become targets for terrorists. To make matters worse, his 23rd MP Company had been selected to train Iraqi police, which have been the target of frequent assassination attempts and, according to U.S. intelligence are heavily infiltrated by insurgents. Attempts to reach Cardona directly were unsuccessful...
Sulmers’ fashion safari takes her from consignment stores to high-end locales. On a given Saturday, Sulmers rides the R-Train between Soho and Brooklyn, tearing through racks of massively marked-down designer jeans and rummaging through vintage threads, schmoozing with owners and snapping pictures as she shops. Later that night, photos and descriptions of the sales she saw go up on the blog...
...back at Harvard, the gay marriage train moves ahead at full speed. For what reason, I am not sure, but my guess is that the Dems/BGLSTA team—like so many organizations and people at Harvard—do not engage in serious debate that questions their “comfort zones...
...curious about people, Gurr is a reliable witness to a changing city. Writing about how property developers moved into bohemian St. Kilda and evicted him from his home of 15 years, Gurr pinpoints the decay: "The first sign, someone said, is an ice-cream parlour." On a train, after meeting two lonely souls, he has an epiphany about the fissure "between ordinary human need and the rhetoric of success." "Believing that your value as a human being is measured by your independence and separation from others is the great lie of the market-driven world," he writes. As a professional...
...joins in the fray. The action starts at a believable pitch and rapidly spirals into exaggeration and caricature. For the most part, this works, as it is delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with aplomb. Especially good are Lloyd-Bollard, as the perpetually-angry newscaster Sian, and Renaud, as the flighty...