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...means of communicating themes in more representational ways. According to Videt, the most promising and interesting element of Buffini’s play and Harvard’s production is the dark comedy. It “pushes and pries at an audience’s comfort zone,” and makes you “laugh at things that, with perspective, perhaps aren’t all that funny.” Remember the dinner scene in the “Rushmore” in which Max gets drunks and spews insults: “I like your...
...beleaguered residents of Baghdad, this has become a familiar Green Zone farce. Beholden to the very militias he has vowed to crush, the increasingly hamstrung prime minister has forced U.S. troops guarding the city to don kid gloves when dealing with the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to the radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence that kills an average of 100 Iraqis a day. And there is palpable frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly...
...most, since in this neighborhood we learned almost nothing about the neighbors. The show got along without supporting characters in the families next door or across the street. The Andersons solved their little dilemmas with no outside help. Their home might have been some enclosed universe in a Twilight Zone episode. What happened at 607 stayed...
...Details remained sketchy through the night and into the morning. Official statements from the U.S. military in Baghdad said only that a U.S. soldier, whose name was not released, disappeared about 7:30 p.m. in central Baghdad, outside the Green Zone. Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington, a spokesman for the infantry division in charge of Baghdad security, said a Baghdad resident called one of the military's tip lines saying kidnappers grabbed the soldier. Withington said the search was ongoing but offered no further information...
Anna heavily criticized Muslim extremism, but she also dug up cases of Russian intelligence services falsely incriminating innocent civilians in the war zone. Her dissent sought to convince Russians their freedoms were the worst victim of the Chechen...