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...twist of fate, Cole wrestled his final match of the day against Warnick the Elder, who was second in the East last year with 26 wins...
...might not be so easy. Washington had to twist arms in Tokyo and Bonn the first time around, and would encounter strong resistance if it asked for more. Even some of the smaller allies are not chipping in eagerly. Washington asked South Korea, itself once a victim of aggression from the north, to contribute $450 million. Seoul stalled until it was warned that the U.S. Congress would remember that the next time it considered funding for U.S. troops based in South Korea. The Koreans then came up with some money -- half of what Washington had requested...
...each time with increasing violence. As the violence increases, the woman writhes in apparent ectasy which escalates to laughter. At the end of the play, her "cunt," a voice characterization by another actress, begins to yell at the men, attacking them for their hypocrisy. Though I believe this final twist is meant to justify the previously presented misogynist attitudes and violence, it is not enough to counter the rest of the action of the play. The woman is eventually silenced--killed by a corkscrew...
...another odd twist for the publishing house, which is owned by S.I. Newhouse's media conglomerate. Evans, 62, was brought in to replace Joni Evans (no relation), one of New York's most high-powered book editors, who joined Random House in 1987. Her reassignment followed by just a year the ouster of the company's longtime chief executive, Robert Bernstein, who was replaced by Alberto Vitale...
...through an ironic twist of fate, 20 full garbage bags of used cups--which were to have been displayed,--were accidently thrown out by Harvard employees...