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...cases that meant the most to him, particularly those involving capital punishment, I asked whether he felt discouraged by the court's increasingly conservative tilt. He told me that he did not, that he had seen a lot worse than was remotely conceivable nowadays, that the progressive changes wrought by the civil rights revolution would prove more lasting than the reaction against them, and that, in any event, hand wringing was a futile response to challenge...
...French-English disagreements may have cooled, but Canada's confederation is still likely to change dramatically in the years ahead, according to a panel of experts convened recently by TIME to consider the country's future. The main reason: sweeping changes wrought by the 1988 U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, which will be reinforced by the prospective North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico...
...drug business and the perdition it has wrought throughout our nation, depend upon "respectable" people, who can move vast sums of money within and across national borders...
Nevertheless, Widowers' Houses is worth seeing, if only for the set design of Charles Morgan, which lavishly recreates the era of wrought iron garden furniture, trompe I'oeil marble trellises and crazy paving. And there are hints here and there of the Shaw who was yet to emerge--the wry cynic who could create dialogue such as this...
...staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron Mitchell is touching but seemingly too sweet and girlish to have ripened into the tough, caustic adult Ned. But perhaps this is Kramer's deepest point -- that the corrosive gap between boy and man was wrought by the unloving world around him. More than a play about AIDS and death, The Destiny of Me is a play about homosexuality and life. It is irate, not about dying but about having been unable to live and love...