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A potential Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," an acclaimed solo show about an American demonstrator killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, has been postponed because of concerns about the show's political content. The production, a hit at the Royal Court Theater in London last year, had been tentatively scheduled to start performances at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village on March 22. But yesterday, James C. Nicola, the artistic director of the workshop, said he had decided to postpone the show after polling local...

  Caterpillar Protest PlannedPosted April 5, 2004 8:56am (Chicago-AP) -- The parents of a young Washington State woman who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer are urging people to join in protests against Caterpillar later this month in Chicago and Peoria. Craig and Cindy Corrie addressed a rally at a church in downtown Chicago yesterday to urge them to join the protests. The Corries' 23-year-old daughter, Rachel, was run down by the bulldozer in March of last year as she was trying to protest the razing of a Palestinian home in Gaza. Israeli officials later cleared the soldier...

<p>Elizabeth Corrie would see her younger cousin every summer at the family vacation spot on Minnesota's Cedar Lake.</p> <p>Elizabeth, a Midlothian High School alumna who teaches at a private school in Atlanta, was born nearly a decade earlier than Rachel. But they shared a similar sense of humor, a yearning for social justice and a desire to make a difference.</p>

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Massacre Remember Rachel Corrie? She was a mixed-up 23-year-old lass from Olympia, Wash., whose hobbies included playing in traffic and burning the American flag. Last March the former pastime cost her her life. She stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer, but was in the driver's blind spot and was accidentally crushed to death. Corrie's fatal game of chicken was the product of malice as well as idiocy. Her goal was to promote Palestinian terrorists' murderous campaign against Jews by obstructing Israeli efforts to destroy tunnels that are used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Egypt...