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...regime, al-Naami finally concluded that it is now safe to return, after more than a decade of living abroad. ?There?s no need for me to stay away anymore,? he said over the phone. While he was speaking, his Iraqi friends were planning a celebration in the Yalta town hall for the hundreds of Iraqi political exiles who live in the area. ?It?s not only the living Iraqis that are celebrating,? he said. ?Even the dead Iraqis are celebrating in their graveyards...
...director must have realized that reading a twenty-page short story aloud, even with pauses for action, cannot fill up two hours. The play opens as Gurov and Anna, the lady with the lapdog, meet and cheat on their respective spouses while vacationing at Yalta; Gurov is disgusted that Anna takes the affair so seriously, but after the pair return to their respective families, he is unable to forget her, seeks her out, and they continue their affair in secret, clinging to it desperately as the one happy element in their lives...
...Yalta, a man has an affair with a young, married woman (the “lady with a lapdog”). After the two return to their homes, the man becomes unable to forget his mistress. The play—based on a story by Anton Chekov—centers on the life-changing trip he takes to see her again. Writer/director Kama Ginkas makes his American debut. Through October 11. 8 p.m. $47-69, $12 for students on day of show. American Repertory Theater, 64 Brattle...
...country, and whereas Washington had once hoped the former king would be a rallying point for the anti-Taliban opposit ion, he has thus far proved incapable of significantly influencing events - after all, to borrow from Stalin's blunt response to the suggestion that the pope be invited to Yalta in 1944, how many divisions has the king? Rabbani two weeks ago said Zahir was welcome to return to Afghanistan, but as a citizen rather than a sovereign...
...everyone looooves a peacekeeper. Need to expel some East Timorese? Get a solid start, then call the peacekeepers in, with red carpet to boot! Need to buff your Georgian signature on the Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe? Call in the international observers! What are guns, we good liberal democrats ask, next to a balmy blue? Or physical power, next to the moral power of that noblest of all goddesses, the international community...