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Great performances have been easier to find than great plays on Broadway this season. Michael Gambon, making his U.S. stage debut last fall, stormed impressively through Skylight, a lesser work by David Hare. Antony Sher's luminous portrayal of English painter Stanley Spencer makes Pam Gems' Stanley look better than it probably is. Christopher Plummer is currently having a high old time impersonating the boozing thespian John Barrymore, though the vehicle, Barrymore, is little more than a facile stand-up monologue...
...year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with a lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District of Columbia in 1995 for selling an undercover agent 126.6 grams of crack for $3,400. In rejecting Edwards' argument last December, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Other students look upon the bean with a lesser degree of adoration...
...answer, Condenzio said, may be in finding a lesser-known chain that would still satisfy student hunger for fast food...
Condenzio said he plans to explore fast-food options--particularly lesser-known chains--for Loker at a national brand-name food conference next Tuesday and Wednesday...