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...Disappointing” does not quite do justice to the atrocity that is the show’s music, composed by Joshua Schmidt. Despite going for the experience of a chamber musical—which feels more like a play with music than a traditional musical—some numbers are actively painful to suffer through (such as “Ham and Eggs” and “Freedom!”), and several others feel underdeveloped...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Machine’ Fails to Add Up to Success | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

This growing cephalization of legislative independence into the hands of a few party leaders is also evident in the growing reducibility of Election Day results to single-tally chamber majorities. Anemic third parties and the fixation on factionalized agendas have merely relegated elections to an oscillation between party majorities—the stifling polarization and “factions” that George Washington warned against in his farewell address. Even insiders, like retiring Ind. Senator Evan Bayh, contest the growing inefficiencies of rampant party-line voting, confirmed by the apex of legislative inefficiency...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: The Party-Line Confederacy | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...Each of them will be counting on continued Chinese growth to help pull the world through economic recovery and beyond, but they can't afford to be complacent about their business relationships with the Middle Kingdom. On March 21, the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing reported that 38% of the companies responding to a recent survey felt frozen out - "unwelcome to participate and compete in the Chinese market" - a steep rise from 26% a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Google the Omen of a U.S.-China Trade War? | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...falling action in the Senate over the next week or two will only exacerbate the partisan divide in Washington, inevitably mirrored throughout the country for the rest of the year. Republicans in the upper chamber not only will vociferously oppose the Democratic plan to pass the changes to their bill with the simple majority procedure known as reconciliation but will also make it clear that any prospect for meaningful bipartisan cooperation on any and all issues is dead and buried, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the GOP Succeed by Running Against Health Care? | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...assuage House members' concerns that Senate Democrats could too easily give up the fight, leaders in the chamber are lobbying for one of two scenarios: for at least 50 Senate Democrats to sign a letter pledging to vote in support of the House package, or for 50 Democratic Senators to co-sponsor the House package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Dems Got the Score They Wanted on Health Reform | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

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