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...ASYLUM GRANTED. To FAUZIYA KASINGA, 19, the woman who fled Togo to avoid a genital-mutilation rite; in Washington. The Immigration Appeals Board ruled that "this level of harm can constitute persecution...
...decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum. She came to the U.S. in 1990 and earned a master's degree in international relations at Princeton. She married and divorced Feng Congde, a "vice commander in chief" of the student protesters. Now a management consultant in Boston, she remains active in the fight to liberate China. Says...
...wealth outstripped utility and taste. Dressler's Grand Cosmo, an architectural and cultural Tower of Babel, is part residence and part theme park. Within its 30 stories and two subterranean levels are a beach, a lake, a model New England village, a Moorish bazaar and a simulated asylum for the insane. Criticized as an example of "the worst excesses of late Victorian eclecticism," Dressler's folly fails spectacularly, a case of too much too late. In the end Dressler completes the illusion and his ruination by hiring actors to play customers...
...WASTED!" does not pretend to examine an insane asylum, but rather an ordinary halfway house. Sarnat is more attuned to moments of deadpan humor than sticking to feelings of absolute despair and frustration. Like a talk-show, "WASTED!" has an episodic quality; the scenes are quick and short, with numerous fade-outs in between. Some of the actors, including Potier and Jacobs, have enough savvy to know that as much as their characters are supposed to be real people, their personas are meant to subvert the stereotypical notions of estranged youth...
Savannah achieves perfect-pitch campiness while steering clear of the baroque absurdity in which Melrose has lately dabbled. There is little chance, for example, that anyone on Savannah will enter an insane asylum and emerge a psychoanalyst--which is not to say Savannah is lacking in comedy. This is a show, after all, in which actors and actresses are made to address each other as "you cheap piece of white trash" with as much sweaty disgust as they can muster...