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...nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about “Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary of 1974, tried to hijack a plane, crash it into the White House, and kill Nixon. Instead, after killing a cop and a pilot, he killed himself.Byck...
...rulers, and clairvoyants. It involves two Moroccan princes—Ormindo and Amida—who are in love with the same beautiful woman, Erisbe (who is, of course, unavailable, having married an ancient, wealthy and powerful monarch). The young queen and her two suitors are backed by a cast that includes three Egyptian fortune-tellers, a page, a lady-in-waiting, and a king, all of whom sing lengthy solo arias and pose and mime animatedly. This is meant to be very much in tune with the Baroque style, which suggests the way deep emotion arises out of formal...
...where you can warm the marble of your Turkish hamam bed), an adjoining hotel-condo tower, upscale restaurants, clubs and boutiques as well as spectacular lobby chandeliers created by Ai Weiwei, who designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics, and you've got a bash the cast of Entourage would die for. (See pictures of the 2008 Beijing Olympics...
Change has come to America. In just a few short weeks, we will cast out the administration that has brought economic, military, and personal ruin to this country and welcome a vision of hope, our first black president, into the White House...
...wouldn't know that, however, from Bush's tone in the run-up to the summit. In his weekly Saturday radio address, the text of which was released Friday, Bush cast himself in the role of defender of free-market capitalism, as if its very existence were on the table this weekend. "This is a decisive moment for the global economy," Bush said. "In the wake of the financial crisis, voices from the left and right are equating the free-enterprise system with greed, exploitation and failure ... But the crisis was not a failure of the free-market system...