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Offers a discussion of the freedom of expression and the freedom of political speech. Debate over British Prince Harry's decision to wear Nazi insignia to a costume party; Comments made by U.S. Lieutenant General James Mattis regarding the pleasure soldiers experience when shooting enemies in Afghanistan; Report that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education urges universities to monitor and divest themselves of those engaged in political indoctrination; Suggestion that universities should be a place for the freedom of expression and speech.

The article discusses the criticism received by British Prince Harry for showing up at a costume party with a swastika on his arm. We have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly armband. All this, while "The Producers" is playing in London to packed houses. Of course, the leaders of major Jewish organizations have had a field day, broadcasting their shock and dismay on an hourly basis and telling Harry to jog round the Auschwitz perimeter another couple of times. Harry could have gone to that party in diapers, or even as a foot. But instead he tried to be a manly man and went as a soldier, and got into a whole heap of trouble.

Reviews the music release of "Musicology," by the performer known as Prince.

The article focuses on the play "Hamlet," by Peter Brook. Three startling productions provide readers with the rare opportunity to rediscover the play and the prince anew. And each one accomplishes this in a markedly different way. Brook's celebrated company of English, Caribbean, Indian and Asian actors clearly underscores the universality of this theatrical event, most notably Jeffrey Kissoon, who doubles as a stately Claudius and Ghost, Natasha Parry as a dignified Gertrude and Shantala Shivalingappa as a delicate Ophelia.

The article presents information about the book "Inventing Al Gore," by Bill Turque. With this book, Turque, a correspondent for "Newsweek, presents a straightforward and occasionally engaging biography of the U.S. Vice President, a book that has more heft than the slapdash compaign bios that often pop out of reporters' notebooks in election years. But Turque's book is no life-and-times chronicle, for U.S. Vice-President Al Gore depicted here, was never emblematic of the world around him. There is no criticism of Turque but a comment on Gore.

The article presents information about various motion pictures. On the theory that animation is the proper medium for dramatizing signs and wonders, DreamWorks SKG has given viewers an all-cartoon retelling of the Exodus, under the title "The Prince of Egypt." The screenplay shows evidence of familiarity with both old puzzles and recent trends in Bible-reading. "A Simple Plan" is also a movie based on a novel, one by author Scott B. Smith; but this one feels entirely up-to-date. Another interesting, well-made picture that makes audiences ask "Why?" is "The Hi-Lo Country," a Western that comes to the audiences as if from a time capsule. In fact, it does come from a time capsule.

The article focuses on the battle of the royals of England. On December 9, 1992, British Prime Minister John Major abandoned vital talks in Paris with the head of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, on Great Britain's future in Europe to announce in Parliament the "amicable" legal separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. He was criticized for getting his priorities wrong. The royals have been in trouble since the mid-1980s, but their tightly controlled world finally erupted in fury and loathing last year with the squalid breakup of the marriage of the Queen's oafish second son, Prince Andrew, and Sarah Ferguson.

The article presents information on a "Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster," a film chronicle that was screened on HBO, which is an investigative drama that cuffs every dirty hand. It shows the day two of the Exxon oil spill and North Slope crude is hemorrhaging into Prince William Sound, so far 11 million gallons, a killing wave fouling pristine coasts and poisoning wildlife. The contingency plan of Alyeska, the consortium of seven oil companies that owns the pipeline, is a joke: There is no emergency barge, only a pittance of containment boom, two operating skimmers instead of the promised seven and a mere fifty of the stipulated 400 drums of dispersants.

This appears to have been as true in London in the mid-sixties, when Harold Pinter wrote The Homecoming, as in the contemporary America depicted by John Patrick Shanley, whose full-length but intermission less Beggars in the House of Plenty has enjoyed a critical success at the Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage II venue. Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a careless patch-up job on a crude dramatization of a verse tale from John Cower's Confessio Amantis, a tale that can be traced back through medieval legends of saints to Greek originals.

This article focuses on supply of weapons by Cambodia to other countries. The author describes that when Prince Norodom Sihanouk addressed the United Nations on September 26 as the leader of a unified Cambodian delegation that includes Hun Sen from the Phnom Penh government and Khieu Samphan of the Khmer Rouge, he signified the headway made in bringing peace to a country that has been as ravaged by war and oppression in the past two decades as any place on earth. Numerous countries have been suppliers of land mines. In Cambodia these include China, the Soviet Union, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.