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...giving the myth a much-needed feminist boost, the two stories of Orpheus on Earth and Eurydice in Hades create a parallel structure—Eurydice comes to accept her reality and Orpheus rejects his, heightening the tension between the two characters, who don’t directly interact (except in scenes that take place in Orpheus’s imagination) until the final scene.Both characters have a sounding board and interlocutor who challenges them to let go of what they hold dear. For Orpheus, it is John, his manager, who periodically comes to his apartment bearing news...
...Except it wasn't over. Somebody converted the grainy video from that night into a digital file and posted it on the Web. One by one, then hundreds by hundreds, people started downloading the video, e-mailing it, linking to it, sharing it, copying it and reuploading it. In other words, the little video went viral--it multiplied and reproduced and spread out of control on the Internet like a virus. And millions of people caught...
...assistants are the female domestic crews that serve meals, do laundry and clean at Opus Dei facilities. "It's like working at a hotel," says Lucy, except that the job requires daily prayer, daily penance and lifelong celibacy. The work meant 12-hour days, six or seven days a week at Opus Dei centers from San Francisco to Boston, and Lucy says her minimum-wage salary was turned over to the organization. She found the stringent regulation of her life incredibly grueling. "You had to ask permission to do everything," she recalls. "If you wanted to go out with...
...World Bank say they want to see an aggressive--and unprecedented--crackdown on delinquent customers, no matter how, uh, connected they are. "If you don't address the issue of the large consumers who don't pay, you have no chance of resolving the energy-sector crisis, except on the backs of the poor," says Caroline Anstey, the World Bank's Caribbean regional director...
...loaf of bread per citizen. Alan Reid, the former chief operating officer of the accounting and consulting firm KPMG who now serves as keeper of the privy purse, says the goal is "not a cheap monarchy, but a value-for-money monarchy." The Queen's natural frugality (except for her racehorses) is well known: footmen at the palace are told to avoid the center of the hallways to preserve the carpets, and she reminds people to turn off lights. Apart from Prince Charles, whose Duchy of Cornwall estate funds his private and official duties, and Prince Philip, she supports...