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...gears up to battle ABC News by co-opting some of its flashy style, NBC News is hoping to win new viewers the old-fashioned way with Reuven Frank. Frank, who spent the past few years exiled to the twelfth floor at NBC, known as the elephant graveyard, is as widely admired by the staff as Small was disliked. Says former NBC News Producer Clare Crawford-Mason: "Reuven is not interested in beating people over the head with value judgments about the news. He thinks the audience is intelligent enough to make up its own mind." As an NBC News...
...into English, Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld, 49, portrays the arrival of the great evil that became the Holocaust as a series of incremental tremors. Anti-Semitism first manifests itself as that petty annoyance on the train, "bureaucracy gone mad" as one passenger reassures another. Then Bruno's elaborate twelfth birthday party is sobered by the arrival of an actress-relative who has been fired by the National Theater because she is Jewish. The shy young guest of honor watches the adults argue over whether there is truly cause for worry: "Words I did not understand flew through...
...began as an unprecedented effort to forge Arab unity around a comprehensive Middle East peace plan. It ended after 5½ hours of bickering as yet another milestone in the 30-year Arab tradition of political disarray. The twelfth summit meeting of the 21-member Arab League, held briefly and acrimoniously last week behind the venerable battlements of the Moroccan city of Fez, undermined the prestige of the royal House of Saud, which had striven mightily to bring the conclave to a successful outcome. Yet even as the angry Saudi leaders stalked to their waiting aircraft...
...brothers, Greg Olson, et al might disagree, on Friday and Saturday more grace will flood the Bright Hockey Center than the rink has seen all winter. World silver medalist Dave Santee, U.S. pairs champs Kitty and Peter Carruthers, and several other world-class skaters will convene there for the twelfth annual Evening of Champions...
...Twelfth Night is updated, relocated and generally reinterpreted more often than most Shakespeare plays. Maybe it's the intricate plot's unique balance of flexibility and limitation that catches the directorial imagination. Mixups in identity, women disguised as men, love triangles, and rowdy servants can be portrayed any number of ways, but identical twins have to look alike, and whether the characters dress in down jackets or loincloths, Malvolio must somehow appear in yellow stockings...