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...love Pavement to get back together and be at ATP,” Hogan says, placing the ’90s band at the top of his “endless list” of dream performers. Hogan is also hoping to book active artists such as Neil Young or Tom Waits.But what Barry Hogan seems most excited for right now is My Bloody Valentine’s performance in New York. “The show they’ve done is so amazing,” he says. “It’s definitely...
...which, one hopes, will spark a fresh reappraisal of the work of the most misunderstood, and very likely best, playwright currently writing in English. That is far from a widespread view. In America, Ayckbourn is still typecast, anachronistically, as a lightweight boulevard farceur (the "British Neil Simon"), or simply as a clever deviser of staging gimmicks: plays that squeeze the action in several rooms into one space, or move backward in time, or fill up the stage with water, or (in his insanely ambitious Intimate Exchanges) have no fewer than 16 dramatic permutations, depending on which alternative action the characters...
...history of Biden's gaffes, however, show the risks of naming him to the ticket. He was forced out of the race for President in 1988 after Michael Dukakis' campaign leaked evidence that Biden had plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, and in doing so had misrepresented his own class background. In June 2006, Biden offended Indian-Americans when he claimed a great relationship with them thanks to the fact that in Delaware, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." Six months later he made...
...moment, the best bellwether of Western sentiment remains the stock market. Its recent nosedive reflects not just political turmoil, but also signs of an economy under stress. While GDP is expected to rise about 7.5% this year, Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics in London, warns that unless Russian authorities get a grip on this heady growth and "take some of the steam out of the economy, we could have a fairly nasty correction over the medium term." Meanwhile, a report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in July warned that Moscow must do much more...
...School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, is a native of India.The naming of a replacement for Bloom marks the end of a chapter in Harvard history, as Bloom was the last dean remaining who had been appointed by former President Neil L. Rudenstine.In just over a year in office, Faust has already had the opportunity to select many key deans, including for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, and Radcliffe Institute.Majid Ezzati, a public health professor who has worked closely with Frenk in the past, sees promise in Frenk?...