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This unusual off-Broadway theater piece explores the case of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her children by letting her car roll into a lake, then lied to police that the kids had been abducted by a black man. Joe Morton, playing the imagined culprit, and Sally Murphy, as Smith, alternately recap news reports on the crime and give voice to Eady's poetic riffs on race and stereotyping. It's sober, well-intentioned evening (with evocative music by Diedre Murray) that, unfortunately, gives short shrift to the most intriguing questions about the crime (like why Smith...
...Pusey’s lasting legacy was his commitment to meritocracy in admissions and faculty appointments, Brandeis University historian and Harvard expert Morton Keller says...
...debris it would scatter could sicken and kill unknown numbers of people and contaminate an unknown stretch of real estate. Because the bomb would require no special skill to build, it's perhaps the most feared of the terrorists' nuclear choices. "They don't kill as many people," says Morton Bremer Maerli, a nuclear-terror expert at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, "but as a weapon of terror, they may be just as effective...
...next speaker was Yoko Kato, a prominent spokesperson against domestic violence. On Jan. 11, 1993, Kato’s 23-year-old daughter, Sherry Morton, and 18-month-old grandson Cedric were brutally murdered by her daughter’s partner...
...aftermath of one awful moment, we've finally come to understand what our parents meant by a cause larger than ourselves. We're hungry for a way to help the war effort, honor the dead and help the survivors. We're not shunning the perfect marbled steak at Morton's for want of a tax break but because it feels wrong with planes being shot at in Afghanistan...