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WHEN A GOOD STRAIGHT PLAY IS TURNED into a musical, the basic question is whether music adds anything. In the case of Arthur Kopit's WINGS, a 1978 succes d'estime about a former pilot and air-show wing walker whose mind has been frazzled by a stroke, the answer is an emphatic yes -- sometimes. In the new version off-Broadway, Jeffrey Lunden's score provides evocatively dissonant metaphors for what is going on inside the afflicted woman's head. But when Arthur Perlman's book and lyrics guide her into banal emotional bonds with a therapist and fellow patients...
When the Ku Klux Klan erects a burning cross, right-wing Protestants are not singled out, and all of Christianity is not blamed for their actions. Unfortunately this does not hold true for Islam. Whenever any of the nearly one billion Muslims is linked to a crime it is quickly noted to be due to some dreadful attribute of Islamic law. Nobody looks into how Islam really stands on the issue, but often the concept of Jihad is used an example of Islam's supposed barbarism, If we look at the teachings of Islam as opposed the malpractices if Islam...
...cavernous Old Executive Office Building are now open all day long, and doors connecting separate offices have been pried open. For the first time in years, people congregate in the halls to chat, turning the corridors into something akin to a high school between classes. The West Wing of the White House has been harder to change, since it is organized for "fat old men and their secretaries," as a Clinton aide put it. Last month Clinton asked about tearing down walls to make his horizontal management style work better, but was told it couldn't be done. Partly...
...culminates a three-year campaign by the Roman Catholic Church against the abortion on demand that flourished for three decades under communism. Women's groups and a liberal wing of the anticommunist Solidarity movement, among others, opposed the severity of the curb. The church hierarchy, supported by Pope John Paul II, pushed for a total ban. Walesa, an abortion foe, opted to sign the new law as the best way to end quarreling...
Fraser, a 6'0", 200 pound wing leads the team in scoring with 17 goals and 18 assists. With support from Kelleher and DelCarmine, this first line can score goals in hurry...