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...action reminiscent of the days of the Intifada, some two million Palestinians closed up shop Wednesday in response to Yasser Arafat's call for a general strike. Stung by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans for new Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the demolition of a Palestinian youth center in east Jerusalem and an Israeli unwillingness to fulfill the peace agreement, Arafat called the first general strike since May 1994. Throughout Palestinian areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, streets emptied as schools, stores and transportation shut down. "The strike is an act of self...
...Beckett play may aspire to silence, yet its characters can't shut up. The women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic...
...BUSTER SOARIES, 44; SOMERSET, N.J.; youth worker In 1994 Soaries, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Somerset, intervened to secure the release of 12 middle-school boys jailed for leading a brawl. He then founded Brothers Working Together, which he says aims "to help young people realize that they have options beyond the street corner." The program, which offers guidance and tutoring to 60 at-risk students, was lauded by Governor Christine Whitman at the Republican Convention...
...jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought," he says now. "I thought I was being patriotic. We would drink and fight, try to clean up America that way." At one party he attacked a white youth who was dating a black girl and who had objected to his neo-Nazi ranting. "I kicked him bloody until somebody pulled me off, then grabbed a beer and joked about it," Leyden recalls. Over the years, he says, hundreds of such fights followed...
CHUCK D FOR MTV Tabitha Soren and crew anchor MTV's youth-oriented coverage, but rapper Chuck D from Public Enemy is a roving reporter for a day, talking to protesters outside and delegates inside. On Tuesday Art Alexakis from the heavy-metal band Everclear tapes a piece on Republican youth-outreach efforts...