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...turned out to be the Dallas Cowboys against the Buffalo Bills, circa Super Bowl XXVII...
Each morning the Iraqi artillery begin to find their targets. Deep in the standing reeds where the gunners cannot easily find them, black-robed women tend their children and few remaining buffalo in tiny makeshift clearings, while men, armed with old AK-47 assault rifles, crouch in hidden blinds along the waterways, waiting for Iraqi patrols. Only at nightfall, when the government troops return to their bases, can the men creep back to their families to sleep...
...rebels in Tehran say the fish, buffalo and rice that were the staples of life are gone. They claim the Iraqi army is using poison to kill marsh wildlife, and they show videotapes of hundreds of fish floating belly up on the brackish waters. Emma Nicholson, a British M.P. who has made three trips to the marshes, says the inhabitants can no longer sustain themselves. In the past eight months, more than 350 villages have been destroyed by shell and rocket fire. "The only way to live in the marshes today is to remain alone and move every day," said...
David Mamet's American Buffalo is a theater poser's dream play...
Lacking suspense and development, American Buffalo delivers few memorable moments. Instead, the vacuousness the play depicts merely imparts to the audience a low-level malaise. It ends with Bobby sheepishly saying "I'm sorry," which is also his opening line, and the audience is no more enlightened than it was at the beginning...