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...shows. Two others didn?t wait for possible G.O.P. spillage. Last weekend rang down the final curtain on ?Caroline, or Change,? the most affecting musical play I?ve seen in quite some time, and the farce revival ?Sly Fox,? which got a whole new cast, for naught, just a fortnight ago. It?s as if producers couldn?t decide whether to stick out the convention or accede to the impulse of millions of New Yorkers this week, and get out of town...
...still low enough to foretell her likely exit in the first elimination round. "I'm just glad I wasn't 63rd or 64th out of 64," she says. "That would have been a little embarrassing for Bhutan." Instead, Chhoden will be able to spend the rest of her fortnight in Athens teaching people where her homeland is and, more important, how a woman from the land of the thunder dragon got to shoot, not sing, her way into the pantheon of great archers...
...elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge his penchant for jogging in garish training apparel. That's Creaser's regular life. But for about a fortnight in the middle of every year this acute, vital 52-year-old breaks out, leaving the Canberra winter to join a team of scientists on the annual dig at Riversleigh, Australia's most precious treasure trove of fossils...
...just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance numbers, were obliged to create - the musical settings. Topflight actor-singers signed on. And then the inspired rush to turn an old classic into a new one, all in a fortnight...
...small minority of Europe's new dads feel they can afford to stay at home. Highly competitive workplaces, financial pressures and a tight job market have made many dads wary of taking advantage of legislation that guarantees them time with their children. In France, 59% of dads took the fortnight's paid paternity leave put in place by the government in 2002. But that still means more than 40% of dads are staying at work rather than staying home. In Sweden, where leave can in principle be divided equally between parents, fathers only account for 17% of parental leave taken...