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...when it's just a guy in a donkey suit - despite Daniel Breaker's good impersonation of Eddie Murphy's terrific performance. Sutton Foster, a Broadway superstar slumming here as Princess Fiona, is fine, but overall the production, directed by Jason Moore (Avenue Q), is surprisingly ordinary: the gigantic, eye-batting dragon, for example, looks as if it could have been put together by a hardworking community children's theater group...
Aside from bankers and automakers, few can claim as rough a ride in 2008 as those in the airline business. Eye-watering fuel prices in the first half of the year and the onset of a global slump in the second will mean a $5 billion loss for the industry this year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). More than 30 carriers from Hong Kong to the U.S. have gone under in 2008. Desperate to trim costs and bolster revenues, carriers are turning to mergers to survive, and nowhere is that happening more than in Europe. "The name...
From the beginning of the recent Mumbai massacre, Indians in India and abroad never doubted Pakistan's hand in the ghastly attacks [Dec. 15]. President Richard Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of American support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a long series of terrorist activities against India have all borne their fruit in the past decade in the form of worldwide Islamic terrorism. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's elected government to bring its military under control...
...Ramesh Ponnuru suggests that dejected Republicans can revitalize their rejected party by paying attention to the middle class, addressing global warming, making health care affordable and promoting assimilation rather than xenophobia. He proposes, in other words, that Republicans become Democrats, or at least move to the center, with an eye toward the 2012 elections. But I think the GOP should shoot for 2020. In Britain, as Ponnuru points out, conservatives lost power nearly 12 years ago. It will take at least that long, and probably longer, for Americans to forget the miserable incompetence and wrongheadedness of the past eight years...
...does a lot of shopping.” Jillson also said she noticed a trend of independent stores opening in the past year to replace national chains. Crema Café, for instance, replaced Jasmine Sola, and Passport Boutique replaced Caché. Three businesses—Topaz, Looks, and Cambridge Eye Doctors—that have opened recently in the Square moved from upper Mass. Ave locations. “What this tells me is that property owners and business managers here are really willing to negotiate space arrangements with locally owned independents,” Jillson said...