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...recalling its ambassador and the U.S. by bringing its ambassador home for "consultations." But some observers felt that the outside agitation merely served to bolster Haider's support--the 27% his party won in Austria's elections last October. As Anneliese Rohrer, domestic-affairs editor of the Vienna daily Die Presse, put it, "Austrians do not like to be kicked around. They are saying, 'Well, if they all hate him, he must be good.'" According to Rohrer, it would have been far worse for Haider if he had been ignored...
Sadly, despite its insightful exploration of terminal illness and all its repercussions, Wit cannot offer a solution, a cure. Dr. Bearing informs us two minutes into the play that she will ultimately die. Perhaps an answer to some of the dilemmas appears in the John Donne sonnets that provide Dr. Bearing with a coping mechanism for cancer. A comma is the only punctuation separating life from death in the verses of Donne. There is no conclusive period, no exclamation point separating the two juxtaposed thoughts; only a simple, smooth transitional comma. Of course, cancer is not the simplest or smoothest...
...theater went dark, eerie music came on, and Curtis belted out a scream that would do even the most die-hard horror film aficionados proud...
...global community, can and should approach the task of remembrance. To forget the Holocaust would be unconscionable, but to communicate it is impossible. Wiesel searches for a balance between the silence required to show respect for the dead and the silence that will cause the dead to die again through forgetfulness...
...election of Ehud Barak as the turning point that would finally set the Jewish state on a course to durable peace with its Arab neighbors. But the last two weeks have provided a harsh reality check. A Hezbollah attack in southern Lebanon Friday killed the seventh Israeli soldier to die there in the past two weeks, despite the heaviest Israeli air raids in four years. Friday's attack further set back U.S. efforts to stop the escalating from derailing the Israel-Syria peace process. "Israel's bombing attacks were a message to Syria's President Hafez Assad, whom the Israelis...