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Staging their tenth air raid in a month around Cairo, Israeli planes were supposed to bomb an air force supply depot at Khanka, twelve miles north of the Egyptian capital. But two planes swept over the nearby community of Abu Zabal and dropped several bombs on a steel plant whose 1,700 employees had just arrived for the 8 a.m. shift. The Egyptian government reported 70 of the civilian workers killed and 98 wounded in the raid. It was the worst toll of civilians since the 1967 war, and its aftereffects are likely to be felt for a long time...
Chekhov's evangelistic fervor for the value of work, since his characters would not have been a tenth as fascinating if one actually saw them working. It is almost axiomatic that in the finest plays no one works. Great drama consists mostly of people fighting, hating, making love (licit and illicit), living in a family, being frightened, being bored, reminiscing about the past, wallowing in self-pity, making jokes, mourning, drinking, talking and dying. Because it contains almost all of these things, the protean stuff of life, The Three Sisters is eternally compelling theater...
...chances of beating them really lie in controlling the boards," said junior guard Dale Dover, the tenth leading scorer in the Ivy League-one point behind teammate Matt Bozek. "If we can outrebound them, we'll do all right," he added...
...past. Who Cares?, which was given its world premiere by the New York City Ballet last week, is a nostalgic, gently ironic reminder that "Mr. B." spent a few lean years in the '30s as a creator of dance for stage musicals. In Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, which he designed for the 1936 Rodgers and Hart hit, On Your Toes, Balanchine brought a touch of ballet to Broadway. Who Cares? brings back a little bit of old Broadway to ballet...
...blacks among 6,000 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. the CRIMSON has two blacks on its 60 member board; the Independent has three out of about 60 board members and contributors; and the Lampoon, one of about 55-ratios little different from the years when Harvard had only one-tenth as many black students. At WHRB, there are roughly 10 blacks out of 100 members but there, as in other news media, fewer than 'half of the blacks are really active, their own thing, Lee Daniels...