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...than enervated by it. McBurney, artistic director of the avant-garde Complicite theater company, has reimagined Miller's domestic drama as a stylized mixture of Brecht and Euripedes. The main characters open the play by announcing they're going to perform a play for us; supertitles introduce us to "Act I," "Act 2" and even the "Intermission." The set is spare and semi-abstract: a screen door, segments of wire fence, a window floating in the night sky. Secondary characters linger offstage in full view of the audience, or gather to listen at key moments, forming an accusatory Greek chorus...
...have not had to worry about underfunded pensions," says Williams. Now, though, successful firms with undervalued obligations may have to accumulate additional cash, amid the credit crunch, just to prop up their pension accounts. That's in part because evolving accounting standards - including those established in the Pension Protection Act of 2006 - prevent companies from getting too far underwater on their obligations to retirees. Public pensions have also been hit hard. State and local governments' pension funds support some 27 million Americans, and many have lost a fifth of their value this year. Virginia's retirement fund and California...
...purpose. Imagine being the first African American with a real shot at the job. A hotheaded, emotional approach could make many whites uncomfortable. If Obama is elected and does the job well, the next time an African American runs, he or she will be freer to act less controlled. Diane Lake, MACHESNEY PARK...
...added that he doesn’t “know exactly what went wrong” with the federal No Child Left Behind Act, but that it’s “hugely important that we do something about...
...associations. The tests cover a wide variety of topics, including racial, religious and gender biases as well as preferences among the presidential candidates. “As psychologists, what we’re doing is using the Web site to understand some of the mechanisms that go into the act of voting—how our attitudes and preferences about social groups might affect our choice of a candidate,” Banaji said. Nosek said the project began with tests based on the contenders in the primaries but switched to Barack Obama and John McCain when it became clear...