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Some of the most challenging work on the London stage these days is to be found not in the West End but behind the doors of two tiny fringe theaters. One is the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, headed by Sam Mendes, whose film debut American Beauty won him last year's Best Director Oscar. The other is the Almeida Theatre in Islington, steered by director Jonathan Kent and actor Ian McDiarmid - familiar to movie fans as the Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series. These two hotspots have assumed a place-to-be-seen buzz among theater-goers...
When the internet business was burgeoning like a garden of perennials, one of the brightest blossoms was China. It had the numbers, of course?more than a billion potentially wired Chinese?and a seemingly inexhaustible army of plugged-in, ambitious techies. With oodles of talent (and a xenophobic government that until recently was intent on keeping out foreign players) it seemed certain that China's Internet would be controlled by locals, not outsiders. Well, another bit of New Economy conventional wisdom may be unraveling. China's homegrown portals, the sites Web-crawlers use as their home pages, are slowly bleeding...
...STARTED Aging baby boomers weren't satisfied with the garden-variety box of ashes on the mantel...
...called it 'Take Back the Garden,'" Ensler said...
More than Boston, however, I am constantly surprised by Cambridge. When you walk away from the River, up one of the familiar signposts streets--Oxford, Garden, Cambridge--you enter into another world. One where real families live, where there are markets and laundromats, corner cafs and bars for locals, church services not overrun by Harvard sorts of concerns. There is character to this city of ours, and almost none of it mirrors the concerns of the Square...