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...Having provided the audience with that super-wide stage, director Jonathan Kent never uses its cinematic sweep. Instead he seems content to provide colorful backdrops and move the action swiftly along. Kent's one clever touch is the lurking presence of Jack the Ripper, for whom Lulu constantly waits. When they finally meet, she is charmed. He is her dream date, as well as her nightmare. It is the final paradox of a play in which Wedekind poses tantalising questions: Is Lulu a monster, and who uses whom? Unfortunately, Kent and Friel don't have the answers...
...plaything, selling excess broadband capacity, isn't looking too hot right now despite an increase in activity. Enron's 20-year deal with Blockbuster last year to provide movies on demand right into your home collapsed recently after the Hollywood studios nixed Blockbuster's plans to control content. Now Enron is having to go to each studio, looking to sign up their archives for transmission...
...weekend in January of 1998. "We were going into an election in Sweden and there was a public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...
...return to a paradise previously lost would make anyone happy. And Adrian Zecha is clearly content. He is sitting amid swaying coconut trees at Amanpuri on Phuket?the first resort he created in 1988. Cigar in hand, his youthful demeanor belying his 68 years, he is explaining how it felt to remove himself from Amanresorts, the luxury resort chain he founded and nurtured for more than a decade before a shareholder dispute over its parent company forced his two-year hiatus. "When you have a two-year-old child, you definitely are indispensable," says Zecha...
Searching for a meaningful send-off to the hereafter? People used to be content to keep a loved one's ashes on the family mantel. Or scatter them at sea. But a lot of baby boomers are demanding something more elaborate for themselves and their dearly departed. In Florida, retired golfers are having their cremated remains scattered on putting greens. Canuck's Sportsman's Memorials Inc., based in Des Moines, Iowa, packs the ashes of duck- and pheasant-hunting enthusiasts into shotgun shells. They are later fired into the air during a ceremony in the woods for family and friends...