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...site Gawker's headline: "Andy Dick Gets the Beat-Down We've All Craved") reveals what a harsh business comedy really is. Dick, whose public displays of weirdness have included licking other celebrities' faces, is a comic other comics love to hate. "Andy doesn't really care for anybody except Andy," Masada says. "If he has to get a laugh at the expense of all the other comics, he doesn't care." In other words, in a profession full of narcissists, Dick is often the last one to step away from the mirror...
...numbers are stunning. Governments around the world hold nearly $5.5 trillion dollars in reserves-an amount greater than the gross national product of any country except the U.S. China has by far the largest horde, with over $1.3 trillion in the till and almost one-quarter of the world's total. But the rest of Asia is far from poor: Japan holds more than $900 billion, Taiwan and South Korea together own over $500 billion and India's reserves crossed $200 billion this year, up more than 30% from a year ago. About two-thirds of these reserves are denominated...
...enough to make the U.S. a cheap place in which to travel, do business and buy things. Americans visiting Europe or the U.K. know an expensive currency when they see one. New Yorkers returning from London say the prices there look almost the same as in New York, except they are quoted in British pounds, which are now worth more than $2 each. I learned of a delegation of wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who on a recent visit to America insisted on going to discount malls to buy designer goods at what they believe are the cheapest prices in the world...
Only blocks away, except for the occasional wail of a siren, there were few clues that anything had broken the calm of the muggy evening. Sayre noted that people were going about their daily business and said he even spotted some joggers on a nearby street. "It was very surreal," he said. With reporting from the Associated Press
...times dizzying for the audience, this accurately reflects Adam’s dizzying quest. Moreover, the play’s interwoven frames of reference—as Adam begins living the story he is told—are nicely echoed in the versatility of the actors who, except for Adam, play anywhere between three and seven roles each...