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Looking for one place that seems to be surviving the economic crisis quite nicely? Try Broadway. After a bleak January, during which nearly a dozen shows closed (including former hits like Hairspray and Spring Awakening), things are looking improbably bright on Broadway this spring, at least judging by the number of openings. No fewer than 20 new shows will have premiered between the first of March and the end of April, bringing the total number of new productions for the 2008-09 season to 43 - more than in either of the past two seasons...
...picture of Pakistan's plight [March 16]. Scarcity of jobs for the youth and the flourishing of radical education facilities there, funded by Islamist elements from other countries, promise instability for the government. With a corrupted military and little consensus among Pakistan's politicians, one can only see a bleak future for its people. Premdayal Gupta, Indore, India...
...city's relatively harmonious ethnic and racial diversity. The Olympic Village is to be built along Lake Michigan, just south of downtown. An 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium is to be built in Washington Park, which is tucked between a middle-income neighborhood of rowhouses and a rather bleak stretch of Chicago's South Side. Officials here also will play up Chicago's extensive public transportation network, although there is reason to be skeptical about whether its train system - which is aging, prone to delays and frequently dirty - can be significantly improved in time for the Games. And being...
...despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. Contestants yell and clap and egg each other on, and no one seems upset when the Payday piñata breaks on the very first try - revealing Payday candybars. With New York easing its way into spring, being outdoors under a blue sky is almost as refreshing as the chance to stab a thumbtack into a fat, balding, caricature of a boss...
...Zucker, Jeff • bleak assessment - "I don't think we'll ever be able to say, 'NBC is Number One in prime time" - of future of network led by is offered...