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...been more than 30 years since Carol Burnett appeared on Broadway. What lured her back is this play about plays and players, Moon over Buffalo, by Ken Ludwig. His comedy Lend Me a Tenor was a Broadway hit in 1989 and moved on to a spate of international productions. Like Tenor, Moon over Buffalo is fast and farcical. Burnett veers winningly between squawking moments of indignation and blazing, face-overspilling grins. Bosco veers in another way. He gets to play most of the second act in a state of delirious intoxication, and does a lovely job of conveying the light...
Unlike IQ, which is gauged by the famous Stanford-Binet tests, EQ does not lend itself to any single numerical measure. Nor should it, say experts. Emotional intelligence is by definition a complex, multifaceted quality representing such intangibles as self-awareness, empathy, persistence and social deftness...
According to Nixon, fewer secondary lenders might continue to lend under the program, since elimination of the subsidy would weaken the lenders' financial position and remove an incentive to lend to students...
Loggers take pains to lend a pretense of legality to their ventures, but loopholes and lack of enforcement make it easy to bend the law in ingenious and profitable ways. In the district of Khabarovsk, the government tried to impose environmental controls on logging but allowed officials to exempt concessions smaller than 5,000 acres from strict review. Alexander Kulikov, chairman of the Khabarovsk Wildlife Foundation, says that just before they leave office, local officials hand out dozens of concessions, often to friends and relatives. He says that in the Khor River watershed, a region of about...
Huzzahs rang out from Ovitz's new colleagues . Says Robert Iger, president of Cap Cities/abc: "My initial instinct, and the instinct that remains, is that I'm thrilled with it. Michael Ovitz knows our business, so there's a familiarity that will lend support." Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Disney subsidiary Miramax Films, calls Eisner and Ovitz "the greatest one-two combination since Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale--only they're both Koufax. Mike Ovitz is the No. 1 talent magnet. Talent loves him. If you say, 'Hey, Mike, I'm having trouble casting this movie,' in about...