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...lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
Ultimately what comes between Ruth and Lisa is a territorial conflict, but the material at stake--personal stories--is invisible. Though Margulies doesn't force the play into a statement of right and wrong, he does communicate the preciousness of stories. Lisa has followed the perennial piece of advice to "write what you know," but Ruth thinks that Lisa has taken this too literally by exploiting the story of her past. Although the rift in their relationship can be contemplated as an ethical dilemma, Margulies makes a stronger argument for the inevitability of literary inheritance. In the end, the play...
...proceed," West said. "Much is at stake...
...ascension, China's future government will be in the hands of an extraordinary man, a lifelong technocrat who was purged twice, then clawed his way to the top, despite irking cadres across the country with his abrasive personality and his low tolerance for dishonesty and inefficiency. At stake is the very future of the Communist Party and the viability of its peculiar experiment in free-market socialism. But by all accounts, Zhu is one of the few top leaders who have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington for his brains, integrity...
Campos called workers' rights "a human issue in which people's dreams and wishes are at stake...