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...instead, Enron on an average night only fills about half the seats, it could take as long as five months before the play turns a profit. If only a quarter of the seats sell for full price, the play, much like the company it dramatizes, will end up being a financial bust...
...officers were charged with raping a local 20-year-old student in their custody, prompting calls from rights activists for the force's disbandment. Even so, for most regional and long-haul tourists, Shari'a and its enforcers are not the barrier. Rather, it is a lack of even half-decent hotels outside Banda Aceh, and Jakarta's apparent reluctance to grant immigration officials in this once independence-minded province the right to issue visas on arrival, as Bali has done for many years. Solve such problems, and Aceh might one day attract visitors in the numbers it deserves...
Faust and her husband, history of science professor Charles E. Rosenberg, visited a rare bookstore in Tokyo, where the two self-professed book lovers spent an hour and a half perusing the store’s eighth-century manuscripts, according to Gordon...
...then we do some TV, we do some stuff like this, and then we go, get on a plane and fly to the next city. We’ll go to a screening, do a Q&A, and then we have about three and a half, four hours off to sleep and start again...
...looks into the barrel of the murderer’s gun, thereby allowing the spectator to vicariously anticipate the fatal shot. It is terrifying and horrific, ergo a clever and memorable way for Coulter to begin the film. Another heartbreaking shot is the pan across Lauren’s half-severed hair at a birthday party, the consequence of a pernicious schoolgirl prank. This trauma pierces through the narrative’s overall angst because of the sincerity of Lauren’s anguish. Both of these moments are acutely upsetting, though perhaps the most memorable and tear-jerking scene...