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...faults of the show lie mainly in David Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost...
Call me crazy, but I actually enjoy the acupuncturist's needles. I can lie on a treatment table, decorated like an octogenarian's party cake for up to an hour, grooving to the warm, harmonious buzz of a balanced body. And why not? Acupuncture can scare away a migraine, soothe arthritis and calm nerves. The painless needles barely penetrate the skin. And the ancient Chinese system of medicine can do no harm...
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestinian Authority, does not speak for the Palestinian people; he does not represent them, and he certainly does not rule over them. Israel, the U.S. and the world must stop trying to fool themselves into believing that in Arafat’s administration there lies the institutional possibility of peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and begin to prepare for whatever and whoever may lie ahead...
...result is a stunning quandary: the autocratic, authoritarian leadership of Arafat may be the only hope for peace, if he is able to exert control over his entire population, while popular support seems to lie more and more with Hamas and the other extremist groups...
...Some 250 km northwest of Termez on the road to Samarkand lies the Khanabad air base, a symbol of Moscow's failure and Washington's hopes. NATO sources say it is now home to up to 2,000 U.S. soldiers, including crack Mountain Division platoons, as well as an unspecified number of British special forces. There are regular incoming flights of heavy U.S. cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security...