Word: hards
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...play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using a device - actors talking directly to the audience - that is too often the resort of lazy playwrights who don't have the patience to write a fully fleshed-out play. (Read "Who'll Win the Tonys...
...city's world-class athletic facilities, hotels and public transportation, the Gay Games Federation announced that Cleveland will host the games in 2014. An abundance of enthusiasm, some Midwestern pluck and a boisterous night on Lake Erie didn't hurt. "It was obvious that these guys worked very hard on this for over a year," says Darl Schaaff, who led the site-selection committee for the federation. "The level of community support was just amazing...
...same idea with the bedding. "At home, we don't have heavy old-school floral bedspreads," says Kowalski. And travelers were never enthusiastic about the possibility that those bedspreads weren't washed regularly. Now everything on the bed is changed. The choice of four pillows - two soft and two hard - came, says Abrahamson, from seeing guests check in with their pillows under their arms...
...American flavor," he says. While U.S. brands are well-trusted in a city with widespread concerns about hygiene and food safety, Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group, isn't convinced this will translate into a successful restaurant business. "7-Eleven is going to have a hard time," Rein says...
...circles that Obama was sympathetic to them, and they can't understand why he's delivering all this bad news," Mwalimu Mati, head of an anti-corruption organization called Mars Group, tells TIME. "On the Odinga side, supporters are saying, 'Why on earth is Barack Obama being so hard on us?' " (Read about Kogelo, the hometown of Barack Obama's father...