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...writing Emmy and helped define a kind of off-kilter, fact-based drama that has become a pay-cable staple. Showtime's 1998 The Baby Dance, about the class tension between a wealthy couple and the couple whose unborn baby they're going to adopt, and her segment of last year's HBO If These Walls Could Talk 2, with Vanessa Redgrave as an elderly lesbian legally dispossessed when her lover dies, were tough-minded triumphs...
...really, how many among us (actual Brits excluded) have always secretly wished to be British? It’s very easy and common to be an Anglophile, and as Gilbert and Sullivan show us, even the residents of that mythical island long to learn and adopt the ways of “the greatest, most powerful, and wisest country in the world.” But such things must be taught, which is why the Princess Zara has returned after studying in England for five years, bringing with her representatives of those habits and institutions that have made the British...
...even the few Houses that adopt a 2 a.m. curfew may do so initially only for official, House-sponsored parties, such as those held in House dining halls, which charge for admission...
Eliot House Master Lino Pertile said he would be willing to adopt extended party hours, at least on a trial basis...
...PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, 24% allowed home-based employees to manage operations in another country instead of forcing them to relocate. A higher proportion of firms took the more traditional route of sending their managers to live in foreign countries. But looking forward, most companies said they expected to adopt the virtual approach at a much faster rate...