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...wish I still had my 1937 ``stupid'' car, a six-cylinder Dodge with no gadgets. For air conditioning, I would crank open the windshield, and I got a consistent 18 m.p.g. Pity the poor smart-car buyer who has a breakdown in the boonies...
...happy to report that the project came undone because Harvard and the investment firm couldn't get along. The breakdown comes a little more than a year before the planned March 1996 opening of the Institutes' first three floors. Now, according to Medical School officials, it isn't clear whether private companies will ever inhabit the Institutes...
...Chechnya is the latest burden for the besieged economy. By even the most conservative government estimates, the cost of the campaign thus far has topped $1.2 billion and will grow as a protracted guerrilla war looms. Compounding purely monetary woes is a breakdown in confidence that Russia can succeed in becoming a member of the family of democratic, market-oriented countries. Western governments are increasingly hesitant to aid an administration that makes war on its own citizens. ``If things continue in Chechnya, then investment--and of course economic support as well--will be automatically withheld,'' warned German Foreign Minister Klaus...
David Mamet's new play, "the cryptogram," lives up to its name; it is a complex and, at times, inscrutable work. "the cryptogram" chronicles the breakdown of the relationships between a strangely prophetic ten-year-old, John (Sheldon Dane), his exhausted mother Donny (Felicity Huffman), and their ineffectual neighbor, Del. (Ed Begly...
...three actors seem to reach their stride in this second scene. Sheldon Dane delivers his lines with the steady assurance of a ten-year-old mystic. Felicity Huffman deftly portrays a woman hovering between control and breakdown. Ed Begly Jr., once he gets comfortable, evokes a seemingly passive character torn by anger and self-loathing...