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Tuesdays with Morrie

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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE An old man, a young man and life's greatest lesson. Some lessons are not taught in a classroom. Some are taught by life, love, suffering and the certainty of death. There are plays that entertain us, plays that challenge us, plays that make us laugh, and then there are those rare theatrical experiences that reach somewhere deeper. They touch the soul. They make us uncomfortable with the things we have accepted as normal. They force us to reconsider our priorities, examine our relationships and confront the uncomfortable questions we have spent our lives avoiding. Tuesdays with Morrie is one such play. I attended the opening at Theatre on the Square, and what a beautiful, moving and profoundly human theatrical experience it was. A play with soul, humanity, love, wit, old age and death. A production that understands something fundamental about the human condition: we spend so much of our lives learning how to make a living that we sometimes forg...
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Ronda Rousey

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RONDA ROUSEY: THE BADDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD From the Octagon to the squared circle — the woman who made an entire division fear the tap 1. THE BADDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD Some wrestlers enter WWE hoping to become legends. Others arrive carrying a reputation so enormous that the company has to build an entire spectacle around their presence. Ronda Rousey was the latter. Before the entrance music, before the championship gold, before the WrestleMania main event, Rousey had already established herself as one of the most formidable women in combat sports. She was an Olympic judoka, a world champion in mixed martial arts, and the woman whose armbar became a sentence of its own. Opponents could prepare for it, anticipate it, and spend the entire fight trying to avoid it. Yet when Rousey secured the hold, the possibilities narrowed. The pressure increased. The arm was trapped. The escape routes disappeared. And then came the tap. Rousey did not merely win fights. She made s...
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