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...From the famous first line, "Why do you always wear black?" - which is broken in two when the character to whom it is spoken, Masha, silences the speaker mid-sentence with an impatient wave of her hand - I knew we were in trouble. Everywhere, Rickson throws in unnecessary filigree - extra pauses, characters wandering onto the stage unbidden - to emphasize the languorous, depressive mood; if I didn't know better, I might have thought it was a Chekhov parody. The Seagull remains one of the Russian master's richest and most affecting plays, but the preciousness of this production soured...
...called More Information Than You Require. Hodgman thinks that while the Urkel effect hurt Al Gore and John Kerry, America's lack of desire to drink even a malty Belgian beer with Obama will actually help him. "After eight years of jocklike bluster, Obama's technician's calm seems extra-attractive," says Hodgman, who believes that jocks vs. geeks has replaced red vs. blue as the reigning cultural conflict of the day. But jockdom, he says, is on the wane. "The world is now driven by knowledge economies. China and India and Dubai do not make Big Bang--theory sitcoms...
...Washington Extended Tours Continue Owing to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army announced it will continue involuntary extensions of combat duty, also known as stop-loss, through 2009. Since 2002, more than 130,000 soldiers have been affected by this policy, which on average means spending an extra seven months in war zones...
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...than a fire sale,” Primack said. “A fire sale is when you get what you can and move on, whereas a yard sale means ‘we’ve got a lot of stuff in the garage and could use some extra space by getting rid of some of the old stuff.’” Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized return of 28.5 percent over the past 10 years. This return has been...