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Writing on The New Republic Online in November, 2006, James Kirchick snarkily commented, "Of all the subjects for a 90-minute, one-woman show, Rachel Corrie ought to have been at the bottom of the list." Rachel Corrie was an Olympia native and Evergreen State College student who, in March 2003, while working with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer destroying Palestinian homes. And frankly, before seeing Seattle Rep's production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, we tended to agree with Kirchick, albeit for completely different reasons.

Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today.

The Corrie family is making world headlines again after narrowly escaping a Palestinian attack near the Rafah border crossing. Of course you remember that their daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in that area by Israeli bulldozers while she was trying to prevent them from leveling Palestinian dwellings. The Corrie parents were visiting the Nasrallahs in Rafah (apparenlty they often do, as the two families tour and speak together) where there has been a rash of abductions in the wake of the Isreali pullout from Gaza and the recent arrest of a Palestinian accused of kidnapping three Britons in the area. Gunmen broke into the Nasrallah home intending to kidnap the Corries, but were chased off by a neighbor afflliated with Palestinian security forces.