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...actress, "and find that sadly I cannot accept this nomination and prefer to stand instead with the egregiously overlooked." Her sincerity would have played out a little better if somebody hadn't tipped off the TV news crews, who came rushing into the theater 30 minutes before the curtain...
...following day the borders between East and West were closed. The Cold War was heating up, and Kirrane just missed getting caught behind the Iron Curtain...
Additionally, Harvard itself can be a barrier; it seems one place that by any other name might smell sweeter. My entryway discussed it the first week from the instant we applied here, the curtain descended and the barrier the tourists bring home cut us off from our classmates, even our friends. Others wear college paraphernalia ad nauseum yet even the mention of Harvard isolates us, because everybody falsely assumes we want them to feel left out. In the end, we are the ones who are isolated...
Last week's violence brought home the fears of so many that the Intifadah's 1993 curtain call was merely a sign of intermission. More scenes of rock-throwing delinquents clashing with Israeli troops suggest that Act II of this grisly tragedy has arrived. As the Jewish holiday of Succoth began last week, it appeared as if Israelis and Arabs were being handed the second half of their round-trip ticket back to square one. They will doubtless be returning with little nostalgia...
...Jewish people. In all of this, Yassir Arafat's growing resume of handshakes and photo-ops have demonstrated that in spite of what may look good on CNN or in picture-perfect Rose Garden ceremonies, for the average Israeli and the average Palestinian, little has changed since the curtain unofficially closed on the Intifadah three years...