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I saw the school’s production of the Tempest for the assignment to watch a production of a Shakespere play.  I found the set design quite interesting with the sand drift on the edge of the stage.  One thing I liked about the acting was how Kalaban walked like an animal.   The acting was quite impressive and a lot of times during the play it was difficult to believe that the actors were high school students.  I felt the backstory that the director added in was subtle enough that it worked.  I thought that the play was quite well done.

Kristin Roberts writes in Rumsfeldquits after Democrats ride Iraq to win, on 11/08/06 for the Washington Post:

“The slap to Bush’s Republican Party was driven largely by voter anger over Iraq, where more than three years of combat have failed to stop violence plaguing much of the country.”

(To read more on this article see URL, below.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110801381.html

The war in Iraq is in its third, going on its forth year of fighting and there is currently a death toll of 2,839 U.S. soldiers. Iraq also has had a great negative impact on the American economy. After the first few weeks of fighting, the United States had a seemingly guaranteed promise of victory in Iraq and of peace in the Middle East. Now going into the present, there has been sectarian violence between Sunnis, on one side and the Kurds and Shiites on the other. The United States has virtually no chance of “winning” this war.

The United States should slowly decrease its military presence in Iraq and should continue to decrease its military presence no matter what. The United States should help to set up procedures for negotiations among the three major sects in Iraq. In the next year the United States should have three-quarters of its troops removed and eventually the United States should have Iraq virtually independent. This will benefit the American economy and the attitudes of Americans.