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13, 2002-Michigan will lose $2 million in federal funding and $600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003, according to Deierdre L. Weir, executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc., the state's largest provider of legal services to the poor.
Current productions that have breezed down it include The Weir , by the young Irish playwright Conor McPherson, and Closer , by Patrick Marber.
Reviewers say director Peter Weir's comedy about Orwellian mind control and entertainment-age pop culture "nails the Zeitgeist " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Dissenters declare The Truman Show overhyped considering its clunky plot and simple-minded message, which boils down to "[E]ither you are a grotesque victim of the moguls or an unmitigated rebel" (Edward Rothstein, the New York Times ). (Click here for the official site and here for David Edestein's review in Slate .)
"Local providers will have to work harder and smarter and use more technology instead of staff to provide as much service as we can with fewer dollars," said Weir. "
Some of these providers have already laid off attorneys and support staff in anticipation of next year's reduced funding, according to Weir.