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...first guilty pleas last week by Democratic fund raisers NORA and GENE LUM took some heat off Justice Department lawyers (hey, they're doing something; no need for an independent prosecutor) but raised the heat on a hitherto minor player in the fund-raising scandal: MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Commerce Secretary. The Lums admitted conspiring to funnel about $50,000 in contributions through "straw donors" to SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY and an Oklahoma House candidate in 1994 and 1995, and they agreed to cooperate with investigators, who have recently been focusing on Brown, a donor to Kennedy around...
...team of researchers led by psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has published the strongest evidence to date that the surge of dopamine in addicts' brains is what triggers a cocaine high. In last week's edition of the journal Nature they described how powerful brain-imaging technology can be used to track the rise of dopamine and link it to feelings of euphoria...
...Nora Okja Keller used to think real writers looked like Ernest Hemingway. Gruff, bearded, white, male. She was none of those. She was an immigrant, born in Seoul to a Korean mother and a white American father, and raised in Hawaii. But Keller's image of herself started to change in 1993, when she went to a symposium on human rights at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; there she heard an elderly Korean woman tell her true story of being a "comfort woman" during World War II, when she was one of the many foreigners forced by the Japanese...
...marriage. Yet a freezing calm overtakes her in the final confrontation with her husband Torvald, in which McTeer (helped by Frank McGuinness's vigorous translation) stunningly conveys a woman whose eyes--and mind--are suddenly opening. "No man sacrifices his integrity for the person he loves," protests Torvald, after Nora says she expected him to take the blame if her past sin were revealed. "Hundreds of thousands of women have!" she replies in a fierce half whisper that has the clarity of a thunderclap...
Director Anthony Page doesn't allow McTeer's virtuoso turn to overshadow a fine supporting cast, particularly Owen Teale (who also appeared in the London production) as Torvald. He's uptight and patronizing but far from a foolish figure. When he stands alone after Nora leaves, we feel the full impact of the play's emotionally complex climax: both triumph (a woman freed) and tragedy (a family broken), a cause for cheers and for weeping. Most theatergoers will simply let out a slow exhale, after an evening that takes the breath away...