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...murderers and victims, the persecutors and the persecuted," he says. "The murderers and the persecutors must personally repent for what they have done." But when a handful of Russians told him they regretted not speaking up for him and asked for his forgiveness, Solzhenitsyn said he "responded with a laugh that this was the smallest possible reason for them to come up with for repentance." Russians, he said "should be repenting far more major things." He seemed to call for some grand legal absolution like the 1946 war-crimes trials at Nuremberg: "We saw this in Germany when the Nazis...
...apparently on its way to Broadway. Musically, they will deplore the conversion of W.S. Gilbert's candybox-pretty score into swing, jazz and gospel arrangements that bounce like the 1940s. Lyrically, they will ask themselves which is worse, rewriting some of Arthur Sullivan's urbane verse (one big laugh comes when Katisha, a scorned lady of the court played as a black street diva by Loretta Devine, screeches, "You piss me off!") or rendering much of what is left all but unintelligible through vocal pyrotechnics and general high spirits from a decidedly multicultural cast...
...million population has been killed or displaced since April, and that number is growing daily as massacres continue in government-held territories. "Our people have been totally traumatized," says rebel Captain Richard Matsiko, a medical doctor treating massacre victims behind the front lines. "Children who could talk, laugh and entertain are just blank. They don't know what has happened to them...
...Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part of the spelling. But he used...
After I clean up my accent and get used to a city where people don't say "wicked" anymore, where they laugh when I say "laugh", I'll finally make that break, putting my hometown in perspective and ready to choose it again, maybe, a couple years down the road...