Word: moribundity
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East, hoping to bolster Arab moderates - foremost among them beleaguered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - and revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The unstated objectives include helping to topple the Hamas-led government elected by the Palestinians in January, and seeking to rally moderate Arab regimes against Iran. So what are her chances of success? Let's just say it's probably easier finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq than finding any Arabs or Israelis optimistic over Rice's prospects...
...nonetheless.This musical, directed by Vanessa A. Pope ’07, took its basic premise from Hal Ashby’s 1971 May-December romance movie “Harold and Maude” which chronicles the tortured relationship between a spry octogenarian (Maude) and her moribund twenty-something lover (Harold). In “Maude and Harold,” the genders of the mismatched lovers are reversed: Marianne (Joanna D. Goldstein ’06), a sultry 14-year-old girl, becomes the erotic fixation of a geriatric lecher, Donald (John K. Minervini ’07), after...
...seems petty to point out that Manolo Blahniks were virtually unknown in 1980. Or the unlikelihood of someone like Boone receiving a museum retrospective at 30, then falling into obscurity a few years later. And the early-'80s New York art scene was a little livelier than the moribund one his characters inhabit. But Carey isn't so much interested in the art world as in creative enterprise itself. "Shame, doubt, self-loathing," admits Boone, "all this we eat for breakfast." Perhaps we can allow Carey his moments of doubt. After all, with safer certainties, art - and writing as crackling...
...look like your typical corporate hatchet man. Back in 1999, however, Ghosn was dubbed the "samurai" and "cost killer" at Nissan Motor in Japan. As the newly appointed president, he began closing plants, slashing more than $20 billion in debt and eliminating 20,000-plus jobs to return the moribund company to profitability. Many observers--especially France's sometimes intractable unions--expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year plan for the European auto giant, which has had an increasingly close joint partnership with Nissan since 1999. But, quelle surprise, so far Ghosn...
...reinvigorated the moribund detective genre and showed the truly strange and horryifying depths to which humanity is capable of sinking. What if you saw the face of evil and could do nothing do only pray it didn’t turn...