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...epithets.RR: What’s your favorite scene in the play?NJO: [Laughs] I’m not sure favorite’s the right word for any of them. They’re all sort of unpleasant really.RR: Well, what’s the most memorable?NJO: I mean, being raped by Dan [R. Pecci ’09] is generally quite memorable. But the scenes are all very tense and I’d be hard-picked to find a moment of highest intensity, and I’d be incredibly reluctant to pick anything...
...most startling and triumphant success. With the help of young vocalist Jessica Lea Mayfield, not to mention additional organ and guitar support, Auerbach seems to mourn the tattered remains of an old love with a kind of self-denying defiance: “It doesn’t mean a thing to me, / ’Cause it’s about time we see, / Things ain’t like they used to be.” A man of Auerbach’s age doesn’t accrue that kind of weariness without losing a piece...
...Unfortunately, stricter enforcement by the FAA - something that passenger advocates certainly welcome - will not necessarily mean a better summer travel season. Airlines are under even greater cost pressure than they were last summer, when one in three flights suffered delays. And changing the culture of the FAA so it's less reliant on airline self-regulation, as the Department of Transportation's Inspector General recommended this week, will require significantly increased funding for inspectors - something that's unlikely to happen by Memorial Day. Kate Hanni, who became an outspoken activist for a still-pending passenger's bill of rights after...
...That doesn't mean, however, that the shared passions and pastimes, drinks and diversions of Britain and India are irrelevant. Far from it. Indian companies have been on a buying spree over the past few years, snapping up companies across the globe. Some of the biggest and most high-profile have involved British firms (Tata Motors' parent company, alone, has bought tea makers Tetley and steel giant Corus) and that's likely to continue, not only because Britain is a vibrant, open economy but because the shared history does count for something. "More than 200 years we were together," says...
...added that the choice did not mean that Class Day would end up being “a bore,” as Bernanke very well “could take it in a more lighthearted direction.” There are a number of student orations on Class Day, two of which are intended to be playful, Tennant said...