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...know about him is how eager he is to just conjure something up. He's always messing about and uninhibited, trying crazy ideas. During The Seagull, he had this four-page scene, four pages of dialogue, where I had nothing to say, and one time he got down and laid flat on his back and did three pages of dialogue to the sky. And I had nothing to do but stand there and stare...
...battle against the Taliban intensified recently when NATO and Afghan forces launched the largest offensive since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan more than eight years ago. Fifteen thousand NATO and Afghan troops laid siege to the Taliban stronghold of Marjah. The center of Helmand province's opium-poppy trade, a major source of Taliban funds, Marjah had long been a no-go area for NATO troops. At the same time, in the Pakistani port of Karachi, a raid on a seminary by CIA and Pakistani intelligence agents netted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's military commander...
...wants the denizens of its Silicon Valley to hatch lucrative inventions that will help break the economy's dependence on the sale of oil and gas. "The appearance of great ideas, like life itself, is still considered a miracle," said the Kremlin's chief ideologist, Vladislav Surkov, who laid out the project in a rare interview with Vedomosti, a Russian business daily, on Feb. 15. "There are, of course, no miracle workers among bureaucrats and businessmen, but together we need to create an environment where miracles are possible." (See how hackers crippled Twitter...
...Klein, chancellor of New York City’s school system—which could potentially layoff as many as 8,500 people this year because of a loss in state aid—has criticized the use of seniority as the sole metric by which teachers are laid off. The argument put forth by Klein and others is that the merit-blind seniority clause does not ensure that the teachers who remain in school systems are necessarily the most effective...
...Friday’s performance wasn’t enough of an indication of Griffin’s progress over the course of this season, then Saturday’s showing against powerhouse Clarkson laid all doubts to rest. Griffin lit the lamp on three separate occasions in the second period, posting her first-ever career hat trick—a natural hat trick, given that her goals came in succession in one period...