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...Carol Browner, the administrator of the EPA since 1993, said "the public is still deeply concerned about the environment...
Ockrent loved the Christmas pantomimes of his English youth, with their | gaudy costumes and giddy parody. "We have to introduce kids to the theater," he says, "so their imaginations are stimulated intellectually and visually." In his Christmas Carol, children will find plenty to keep them beguiled: high- stepping oranges and pears, the flight of Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Future above the audience, a bountiful snowfall on the expensive seats and, at the end, Christmas trinkets distributed by the cast to lucky theatergoers...
...show is playing 85 times through Jan. 1, with as many as four shows a day. Even so, with a cast of 90 and devilishly elaborate special effects, this very Menken Christmas Carol won't break even for a few years. The producers hope to make it a holiday tradition in New York and other cities. "It's a story that has lasted 150 years," says Ockrent, "and I don't see why it shouldn't last another 150. Hopefully at the Paramount...
Well, he could hope that A Christmas Carol lasts as long as the Radio City holiday show, which has been going since 1933 and never looked better. Under the direction of Robert Longbottom (Pageant), the show struts the ageless panache of the 36 Rockettes in five precision prances, notably as a parade of wooden soldiers and as Raggedy Anns whose letter blocks eventually spell out merry christmas and a happy new year. A new version of The Nutcracker, with teddy bear dancers as sugar plum fairies, Arabian houris and Chinese pandas, is delicate, funny, winning. The climactic Nativity tableau -- teeming...
...will now be the cheerleader -- not leader -- of the main health-care initiative. In October, Leon Panetta, the White House chief of staff, ordered that control of the reforms be turned over to Robert Rubin and Carol Rasco, the President's top in-house economic and domestic-policy advisers. White House officials, however, insist that the downgrading and reshuffling of the agenda does not reflect badly on Mrs. Clinton. As a senior official explained last week, Panetta's decision "was less about Hillary than Ira," as in Ira Magaziner, the aide who masterminded the Clinton plan and whose manner alienated...