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...first act takes place outdoors, by a lake where Arkadina humiliates her son in his first artistic venture. Although the action gradually moves indoors, the trees never disappear. They stand throughout at the stage's edge, silent sentinels recalling the bitter moment that brings on all the play's ruin...
...Wiesel arranged this visit to parts of what used to be Yugoslavia. He tells a press conference later that Sarajevo looks to him like "a ghost city, a tragedy formed into a city, like a city in Germany in 1945." He says, "I saw a cat that was a ruin of a cat. I saw a dog that was a ghost of a dog." He says, "I feel the time has come to weep...
...much done on the bus, and theclasses you miss Thursdays and Fridays hurt," saysMcConnon, who adds that his sports commitment hasmade him a better organized student. "Theacademics ruin you for running: too little sleep,too much stress...
...peril of a disastrous collapse. The melted-down fuel is turning to unstable dust. Contaminated objects are being smuggled out of the poorly guarded 1,092-sq.-mi. exclusion zone. Birds fly into the sarcophagus through holes as big as a garage door; rats breed in the ruin. The structure is so unsteady that a strong windstorm could smash it, sending a plume of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. "Nothing is being done to clean it up," says Alex Sich, an American engineer who has studied the Chernobyl site...
...must cling to the need-based aid system andget other institutions [to do so], otherwise we'regoing to ruin ourselves," said Rudenstine...