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Shakespeare's story of mistaken identities, chance encounters, amorous intrigue, and multiple acts of violence centers on two sets of identical twins: Antipholus of Syracuse (Nestor Davidson) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Phillip Brittan), who are both prosperous merchants, and their foster brother servants, Dromio of Syracuse (Robinson Everett) and Dromio of Ephesus (Jason Rosencranz...
Sweet, innocent Jonny (Philip Brittan) loves Cathy (Julie Scott), who seems as sweet and innocent as her boyfriend, except for some not too casually dropped hints about her suppressed sordid tendencies. The better-defined characters in Jonny and Cathy's large coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...
Board Member Samuel Brittan, economics columnist for London's Financial Times, predicted that growth will rise from 3% in 1986 to 3.5% this year and push the unemployment rate down slightly, from 11.4% to 10.7%. Brittan hopes the pound will stabilize at more or less its current level. Further substantial declines in the currency, he said, could begin to put pressure on the British inflation rate by making imports more expensive...
Despite the nagging debt problem, Italy has made enormous strides. Last year's inflation rate was only 4.3%, in contrast to more than 20% in 1980. Carli and Brittan agreed that Italy's GNP is now close to that of Britain and is probably larger if the thriving Italian underground economy is counted...
...Samuel Brittan, an economics columnist and assistant editor of London's Financial Times, admitted that "the outlook for world trade liberalization is not good," but added, "The surprise is that it is not worse." He noted that the volume of world trade is expected to grow at least 4% to 5% this year. That is a mild increase over 1985, but only half the 1984 rate. Brittan singled out nontariff barriers to trade, like voluntary quotas, as particular villains in that sluggishness...