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...they scurried for a property, chose Bram Stoker?s epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves and whinnies, shouting villagers, shrieking carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized...
...they burned down the British chancery in Beijing. Protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 echoed calls for adopting the liberal political approach of the West; the crackdown set China back yet again. "Throughout history, the Chinese have been very cautious about expansion and about allowing in Western influence," says Jonathan Spence, a historian at Yale University who writes frequently about China...
...EGADS, EGAN: "I know that everyone is talking about Jonathan Franzen this fall, but don?t you need a female voice as a counterpoint?" asks a publicist at Doubleday. The female voice she has in mind is that of novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan, whose second novel, "Look at Me," will be published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday on September 18. Egan has a lot going for her: superagent Binky Urban, a 15-city reading tour, and confirmed coverage in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, O, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Talk, Paper, Vanity Fair and the NYT Book Review...
...Jonathan Carey, an NSTAR spokesperson, said crews quickly arrived at the transformer substation after the malfunction, but because of safety precautions and the complexity of the problem it took nearly two hours to get power back...
...carmaker, Fiat has subsidiaries in aviation, insurance, and publishing. It owns over 10% of HdP. It has teamed up with state-owned French energy company EDF to create Italenergia, which could control 52% of Montedison. that controls it, and Milan's Mediobanca. This jumble of crossholdings - INSEAD professor Jonathan Story calls it "Spaghetti Junction" - has made it difficult for outside investors such as fund managers, corporate raiders or acquisitive foreign companies to gain power within Italian firms. For decades, Mediobanca has been very much the senior partner in this arrangement. The bank was founded in 1946 as an offshoot...