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Portrait of a Northwest idealist   Mrya Sea Kaminski in Rachel
Corrie. Photo: Chris Bennion  Walking into the Seattle Rep's
production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, I get leafletted and
talked to, but in a dispirited, rainy, PNW kind of way. "We want
you to be aware of the situation," the man from the American
Jewish Committee says. "We're pro-play; they're anti-play," says
another man; he delivers a glossy brochure with a list of
Palestinian children killed by the Israel Defense Force. But
they're both polite and calm. Even the guy walking up and down
the rivulet-streaked street with a "Jimmy Carter: YES!" placard
seems practically somnolent. But come on, who wrote the
propaganda (both in my hand and in a paid ad in the playbill)
that says "My Name Is Rachel Corrie does not tell the whole
story" — Hello? Really? A play created out of the emails and
diary entries of a 23-year-old from Olympia doesn't depict all
of the complexities of the Israeli-Palest