Rep. Tom Tancredo promotes embassy move By Leigh E. Rich Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado’s congressman for the Sixth District, introduced a resolution in the House Tuesday for the immediate relocation of the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem—Israel’s capital—noting that the move is a “proposition whose time has come.” “Relocation of the American Embassy […]
02.16.2001
01.07.1999
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Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie By Leigh E. Rich Reporting Live By Lesley Stahl Simon & Schuster $25.00 Veteran TV journalist Lesley Stahl is one tough cookie. She’s had to be. Joining the CBS News team as a Washington-based reporter in 1972, Stahl has covered every presidential administration from Nixon to […]
04.19.1996
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‘13 Days/13 Días’ cleverly contrasts the myriad of voices in the Chiapan uprising By Leigh E. Rich The play “13 Days/13 Días: The Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas” uses the theater as a medium to remind the developed world (as we recline comfortably between our computers and FAX machines) that “to change the world, or even […]
02.29.1996
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Stereotypes fail to inflate political caricatures By Leigh E. Rich The polls are still warm from Arizona’s first Republican Primary. And while a whopping 25% of conservative voters exercised their rights this past Tuesday, the Coyote Ramblers Theater Group has been expressing a very different political statement at the a.k.a. Theatre—a black box barely larger […]
10.26.1995
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The ‘Twinkie Defense’ and the murder of Harvey Milk By Leigh E. Rich In the lingering aftermath of the Simpson trial, Emily Mann’s docu-drama “Execution of Justice” adds to the growing list of courtroom entertainment. Presented by the Arizona Repertory Theatre, this play not only places the judicial system, the media system and the medical […]
