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...plaque that would be placed on the scoreboard. It stated, "In Memorium--Becky Pocius '94, Dedicated to her spirit and to the game she loved." The ceremony ended with Becky's father presenting the current catchers with equipment bought by Becky before she died. The presentation of Becky's mask to Christine Vogt brought a flood of tears to my eyes because I had always associated that mask with Becky. Becky was always willing to give, and I am sure that she is happy knowing that she will still be contributing to the team, not only with her equipment...
...Anita Hill was not sexually harassed, nor is it to say that the hearings were not entertaining. But none of these accusations, rebuttals and simply irrelevant statements could cloak the fact that Thomas was not the most qualified person for the highest bench in the land. Nor could they mask the truth: Thomas was both nominated and attacked out of purely political motives. If we are ever to have another Justice chosen for legal scholarship and not political palatability, this partisan poisoning of the process must stop...
...always vary their routes home from work. Mail is opened only by employees trained by a bomb and arson squad to detect suspicious envelopes or packages. "Those of us providing abortion services feel very vulnerable," she says. Even more so since December 1991, when a man in a ski mask opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun at a clinic in Springfield, Missouri. Two people were wounded, including the clinic's office manager, who is now paralyzed. The gunman, who walked calmly away from the scene, has not been apprehended...
...Just before the shooting started, his travelogue of Baghdad ("unusually ugly lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated Kuwait City, he tracks through apartments fouled by soldiers' dung. Back in postwar Baghdad: bullyboys, profiteers and "the total degradation of a people...
...written, rehearsed and opened by September at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater in suburban Chicago. This version, which imagines that the Phantom is the brother of Christine's ordinary beau Raoul, stresses the spectacle and italicizes the sexuality. Christine not only kisses the Phantom after he has removed his mask, she also helps him remove his shirt. The production has flourished in regional theaters; a new edition starts touring in April...