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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Set in a quiet suburb of Dublin, this psychodrama unfolds over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over...
...delight of many, temperatures yesterday soared into the 70s, breaking a previous record of 68 degrees set on November 28, 1896, according to meteorologist Charles Foley of the National Weather Service. The average high temperature for late November is in the mid-40s, Foley added...
...staff fears that this decision will set a precedent of judicial restraint of American media. If CNN is prevented from airing tapes on the grounds that Noriega's right to a fair trial has been abridged, as this opinion reasons, then it is foreseeable that federal marshalls will march into America's newsrooms and pull stories with only the weakest of possibilities that it could damage right to a fair trial...
...that was not the case Saturday at Briggs Cage, where the Crimson stumbled in its season-opening 87-76 loss to Lehigh. While Harvard played its pressure man-to-man defense almost perfectly in the first six minutes, its lack of depth became all-too-apparent and fatigue set...
...images -- evoking the student-worker upheaval of 1968 -- were enough to make any French government tremble: wisps of tear gas drifting across the Seine, helmeted riot police chasing stone-throwing youths in the Latin Quarter, cars set ablaze along the Quai d'Orsay...