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...pact is an uncommon one, Parsons says. In fact, he's never seen Harvard lend money to a student organization before, he says...
...nature of Quebec's situation does not lend itself to easy analysis. Unlike most groups who attempt to leave their political unions. Quebecers are not in Canada. Their culture is not threatened, enjoying some, of the most protectionist and support in the world...
...idea behind Reg. Q was that bankers were a disadvantaged group who needed welfare benefits. By putting a lid on the interest rates paid to small savers, the government could foolproof the banking system. Bankers could lend the cheap money out at higher rates and make a nice living without trying too hard, which is how they became such good golfers...
...mere fact that plutonium is on the market could conceivably lend credibility to terrorist groups that might try to persuade people they have built a bomb. "The problem now," says Richard Guthrie of the Verification Technology Information Center, a nonprofit group in London, "is blackmail. If someone says he's built a bomb in a basement somewhere, how does a government react when that person produces a gram or so of weapons-grade material to prove the threat...
Chris Scully's directing shows up most apparently in the designing and lighting of this show. The backdrop and symmetrical windows lend a mystical feel to the stage. The lighting cues aid to create this mystical, cosmic sort of aura...