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...Staff writer Alan J. Tabak can be reached at tabak@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Alan J. Tabak can be reached at tabak@fas.harvard.edu...
Even by the buttoned-up standards of central bankers, Alan Greenspan is not an effusive man. But one economic phenomenon has driven the U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman to reach for the superlatives: in March, he marveled at the "extraordinary" efforts of China and Japan to prop up the dollar by pumping money into U.S. bonds. Japan's accumulation of U.S. securities, he declared, was "awesome." Indeed, in the first three months of this year, China and Hong Kong bought $167 billion of American securities (primarily U.S. treasuries and corporate bonds), while Japan bought $336 billion worth, according...
...merely the malign spirit who hangs over his story, a nutty potentate who comes onstage just twice, always preceded by the efficient sadists of his elite guard, each of them enclosed in his own cloud of Tommy Hilfiger. Keneally's main concern is with the trials of Alan Sheriff, a refugee at a bleak detainment camp in a nation that is plainly Australia. Sheriff has made his way there from Great Uncle's beleaguered country, where he was a writer with a budding reputation in the West and an advance from Random House to produce a novel. The flashback story...
...flourished since 1988. In 1994, the year Encores! began, the York Theatre uptown inaugurated a Musicals in Mufti series (its motto: "Think Encores! on a budget") to spotlight "underappreciated" musicals by such highly appreciated composers as Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Jule Styne, Harold Rome, Noel Coward and Alan Menken. Downtown, and way downscale, there's Mel Miller's Musicals Tonight! series, which this week finished a run of the 1926 "The Girl Friend," by Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and which last month won a Village Voice Obie grant for trying really hard on no budget...