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Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III opened last Friday at the Loeb Mainstage, in front of an audience eager if not for serious dramatic performance, then at least for a memorable show. The production did not disappoint the auteurs of either. Director Fred Hood managed a large and excellent cast almost as well as he did the mainstage, fulfilling his promise of "total theater." The Madness of George III was planned in the grandiose style of a Shakespearean production; it achieved this aim almost too well, with the result that it had some trouble retaining the delicate...
...that efficiency includes, it turns out, funding new businesses and laying waste to those that disappoint. On Wall Street, day traders and fund managers continue to smart over this year's natural--even desirable--bursting of the speculative tech-stock bubble. "The Internet really turbocharged everything," says Marshall Acuff, chief equities analyst for Salomon Smith Barney. "It was the infinite expectations for the Internet that pushed excitement to the ultimate level...
...Second of all, George Bush isn't getting any smarter. Still, there were no major flubs - though maybe tackling "peroration" (it came out "piroation") was a mistake - and after two earlier faceoffs that were healthy for the Texas governor's stature, he probably didn't disappoint anyone whose expectations had been raised...
...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...leaving Gore lots of room to move. Over the last eight years, the vice president has tended to disappoint those who hoped he would try to deliver the tough message that America (and the rest of the globe) needs to be weaned off oil. Lately he's relented to the political realities and been more concerned about checkbooks in the balance than Earth. But that won't stop him from turning green at the sound of derricks, dusting off all his painless alternative-energy initiatives because he knows Bush isn't really looking that far ahead...