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...double game played by Pakistan's spy agency." While in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, Zardari told Roger Cohen of the New York Times, "The ISI will be handled; that is our problem. We don't hunt with the hound and run with the hare, which is what [former president Pervez] Musharraf was doing...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never received the critical respect accorded contemporaries like Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of modern, middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human drama behind these tidy surfaces: the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed...
...time when playwrights like Stoppard, Hare and Michael Frayn are wrestling with weighty topical issues, Ayckbourn admits to having little interest in politics: "I've lived through enough times to know, as the French say, plus ça change - nothing changes, give or take the odd Iraqi war." One thing that musters his outrage, though, is the dwindling government funding for the arts, which has endangered local theaters like his Scarborough company - where, in all his years as artistic director, he has never taken a salary. "My salary is in the accounts," he says, "but it usually goes flying...
...exodus from Bensenville was spurred not by decay but by development. The suburb squats in the crosshairs of a $15 billion plan to ease gridlock at O'Hare, the world's second busiest hub, by adding more parallel runways. For the past three years, the O'Hare Modernization Program (OMP) has been gobbling up land in a 300-acre (120 hectare) "acquisition area" that comprises about 15% of the village. Ninety-five percent of the neighborhood's 542 homes are plastered with signs proclaiming them Chicago property...
...message seems to be resonating: scores of nearby communities favor revamping O'Hare. But Bensenville president John Geils--citing cost overruns and a funding shortfall--argues that part of his village is being gutted for a runway that "has absolutely no chance of being built." Further, he notes that increasing capacity just as soaring fuel prices nudge the aviation industry into a tailspin may be a fool's errand. (Andolino maintains that construction is on track: in November, O'Hare will unveil its first new runway since...