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Ayckbourn, whose father played violin for the London Symphony Orchestra and whose mother wrote novels, was influenced in his early years less by theater than by the triple bills of American B-movies that he would spend long afternoons watching. Even today he seems aloof from most of his British playwriting peers; he's friends with few of them, and the only dramatist with whom he professes a close affinity (personal and professional) is Harold Pinter, who directed him in an early production of The Birthday Party. "I got fascinated by his use of dialogue, his use of words...
...with troubled U.S. insurer AIG, has been asked by Indian insurance regulators to show proof of its solvency. The market turbulence is especially worrying for India's middle classes, who have just begun investing on their own in a big way. (A new Bollywood movie, Saas, Bahu aur Sensex - Mother-in-Law, Daughter-in-Law and the Sensex - captures the craze.) Bhandarkar, an avid investor himself, is worried: "How can a $60 billion loss not have an impact?" When it does, the party may finally have to end. - by Jyoti Thottam...
...This month, an Alaskan mother hit the jackpot. Gov. Sarah Palin? No, Kaylene Johnson, the author of Sarah, the first book to be published about Palin. The slender volume, written well before John McCain chose Palin as his running mate, sold some 10,000 copies when it originally came out in April. Now, with 350,000 copies in print and counting, the book has rocketed onto the New York Times bestseller list...
...parents of sickened babies are demanding a greater response. "Sanlu is a big company and we trusted their products. We never dreamed that they would sell something so poisonous," says a mother in Xuzhou, a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Her 21-month-old son, who drank Sanlu powdered milk since birth, was just diagnosed with kidney stones. "What angers me the most is that Sanlu had known about it for so long," says the mother, who would only give her surname Zeng. "When I called Sanlu, they told me, 'The country will take care...
...lads" in the Army, William has thrived at higher altitudes. He said yesterday that his time in the RAF "made me realize how much I love flying" and that search and rescue allowed him to fulfill the altruistic impulses that informs his charity work, as it did his mother...