Word: fellowism
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...after I sat through a Broadway revival of Noel Coward's 1939 play Present Laughter. I noticed a few differences. In Coward's play, the main character, a famous stage actor, spends most of the evening in a dressing gown delivering bons mots to an entourage of fellow theater people. In Perry's show, a sharp-tongued grandmother delivers sassy put-downs and motivational lectures to a brood of squabbling family members. Coward's plot reaches a climax as the actor finds out that several pestering women have all booked passage on the same boat he's taking to Africa...
...power to use monetary policy to ease its pain, as the Federal Reserve has been doing in a big way in the U.S. The only options for Greece are to 1) scrimp and save to convince creditors that it can keep paying them off, 2) convince its fellow euro-zone countries--or maybe the International Monetary Fund--to bail it out, 3) default on its debts or 4) pull out of the euro...
...have witnessed the toll of war more than members of the military's medical-evacuation units. The medevacs have been in situations in which they have saved lives by getting the injured to a forward operating hospital, and they have been in many situations in which they watched their fellow troops die. (See pictures of the rescue brigade...
...study done in the aftermath of Green's crimes, just a routine Army investigation known as an AR 15-6, which was completed by a single lieutenant colonel in five days. Nor, for that matter, was anything other than a 15-6 ordered after Sergeant John Russell killed five fellow soldiers at a combat-stress center on an Army base in Baghdad in May 2009. Inevitably, this raises questions of whether a double standard is at play. Is the Army serious about accountability only when a soldier murders other soldiers on U.S. soil and the shooter is an Islamist? There...
...Titanic). Turns out the R-rated whodunit - with Leo playing a U.S. marshal searching for a killer in an insane asylum - benefited from an effective ad spot on the Super Bowl and a week with no other new films in wide release. Scorsese's very limited competition came from fellow world-class auteur Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, another conspiracy thriller set on a windy Massachusetts island. The film took in $179,000 in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, reaped encouraging reviews and, yesterday, won Polanski the best director prize at the Berlin Film Festival...