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David Cromer - the Chicago-based director who won acclaim for his recent off-Broadway revival of Our Town - handles all this with sensitivity and solemnity. (This is a real rara avis in New York theater: a play without laughs.) A cast of mostly Americans (among them Mary Beth Hurt and Victoria Clark) conveys the British and Australian milieus with as much authenticity as you're likely to find on these shores. The play is unrelievedly bleak but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year...
Harvard’s percent increase in costs is also the second-lowest increase among these seven Ivy League institutions, beaten only by Princeton with a 3.3 percent increase...
...thinking about tinkering with its beloved, billion-dollar basketball spectacle? The organization is investigating the possibility of expanding the tournament field to as many as 96 teams as early as next year (for you non-bracketheads out there, 65 teams play in the current field). Within basketball circles and among cubicle dwellers who relish filling out their brackets for the ubiquitous office pools, chatter about a broader tournament is dominating the discussion. "Absolutely, it's hot," says Phil Martelli, head basketball coach at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, of the expansion issue. "Very hot." (See a brief history...
...never give back any parts of the Holy City to the Palestinians. The hawks view Netanyahu's agreeing even to a 10-month partial moratorium on new settlement activity in the West Bank as a needless sellout to Obama, one of the least popular American Presidents in recent memory among Israelis. With an address to Washington's pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee looming, Netanyahu wasn't about to cave again...
...Sunni politicians - a few weeks before the election appears to have helped fuel Sunni suspicion that he harbored a sectarian agenda. Maliki's troubles have been a boon to the Sadrists, who entered the election as the junior partner in the INA. But the Sadrists appear to be among the big winners of the elections ? and stand to win as many as 40 seats out of the 325 in the national assembly, potentially making their support crucial for any would-be prime minister. Still smarting from Maliki's crackdown against their militia in Basra in 2008, the Sadrists have refused...