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...saddest truism in Russia is that life is harder now. Not that ordinary citizens ever lived very well, but most could afford the basics. Today soaring prices and an almost totally worthless currency have reduced even that way of life to a bare minimum. Look at what the unfulfilled promise of reform has brought the Vaktin family...
Equally good is Vonnie Roemer as the Baker's Wife. The Baker's Wife is the voice of reason in fairy tale land. When her husband is worried that they cheated Jack into trading his cow for worthless beans she tells him that "if the end is right it justifies the beans." "Is it always or, is it never and?" she asks in her brilliant last song "Moments in the Woods," capturing these characters' inability to take charge of their lives. Roemer has one of the finest voices in the show and the necessary stage presence to keep her sane...
Sketching quickly, letting a line stand for a landscape, the author shows us Moscow in the month before last year's coup. Marxism's fragments still clog streets and government offices. The ruble is nearly worthless. Murderous Chechen bandits and corrupt former party officials war bloodily over control of the new capitalism, which turns out to be the old black market grown great. Ordinary people stand in lines for food, and when they have time, go to work...
Although much expression is "worthless or harmful," governmental regulations would inflict more harm than good, said Kateb who is also director of Princeton's Program in Political Philosophy...
Unrestricted freedom of speech allows worthless and offensive expression to proliferate, he said. But regulation of hateful speech might eventually lead to regulation of other expressions, such as religion, he said...