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...Christmas Carol is the season's most produced show. In Los Angeles and La Jolla, California, Star Trek veteran Patrick Stewart will be giving his acclaimed one-man rendition. A megaversion can be found--where else?--in New York City's Madison Square Garden, where Tony Randall plays Scrooge and Ben Vereen the Ghost of Christmas Present. San Francisco's venerable A.C.T. troupe is reviving its renowned 1976 production, absent since 1993. Says director of marketing Robert Sweibel: "It's the closest thing we have to a surefire hit, and it helps us underwrite more adventurous programming." Theater managers across...
...short, my old man is a one-man national sample without a margin for error, the ultimate swing voter who always veers in the popular direction. He's a die-hard Democrat, a Main Street Republican, an ornery independent, a Reagan Democrat, a Rockefeller Republican. He is the one voter every pollster, every ad maker, every candidate seeks to speak to--John Q. Public...
...serve his country. That is why he volunteered for combat in Vietnam, where he earned four bronze stars, and that is why in 1982, armed with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke, he joined the FBI. Despite appearances to the contrary, patriotism, he says, is behind the one-man crusade he has been waging against the bureau since the 1980s, charging his colleagues with following improper procedures in the FBI laboratory and with bowing to political pressure to solve cases. "America is my family," says Whitehurst, 48, "and I'm conducting an investigation into what I consider inappropriate behavior...
...coalition party brought together by Franklin D. Roosevelt. As recently as 1976, Jimmy Carter won the state handily. But that was the last victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in South Carolina--the state gave George Bush his second highest percentage (after Mississippi) in the nation in 1992. A one-man symbol of this trend--and many others--is the state's 93-year-old Senior Senator Strom Thurmond, who, in his 67-year political career, has been both a Democrat and Republican and, by the end of next term, may also be the oldest Senator ever...
When Fokin came to the United States, he established the one-man Wooden Horse Puppet Theater, supporting his family on money collected from his Brattle Street audience and from private shows...