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...gagwriters and goes onstage without a scripted routine, an activity that he compares to walking in the wilderness with Ray Charles. In two try-out shows in a casino by Lake Tahoe last month, he changed about half the material from one night to the next. The Chicago show last week was about one-third new material again. This is the most exhausting way to do comedy. Yet unlike those comedians who can barely muster a grin when not onstage, Williams never seems to be down; the performance never ends. His energy levels are prodigious. When he goes cycling...
...early February, consulting firm Arthur D. Little—which rents more than one-third of the Arsenal Complex’s approximately 750,000 square feet of space—declared bankruptcy...
...fraud. Researchers asked more than 1,000 Kenyans how often they were hit up for bribes, how much they paid and whether things were getting worse. Respondents to the Kenyan Urban Bribery Index, as the survey is called, paid around 16 bribes a month, an average of $100 or one-third of respondents' mean monthly income. Most respondents said things were getting worse. The biggest bribe takers, according to the findings, are law-enforcement institutions like the police and the judiciary. The immigration department and local councils are also high on the list. "It's public officials with power over...
Snyder also built Shattuck House, the school’s first residence hall for international students, who made up about one-third of the student body during the time he was dean...
...mode is no longer a hot new product?and DoCoMo no longer sparkles as one of the few diamonds in Japan's rough economy. The company is proving susceptible to shrinking growth rates, a syndrome that already afflicts carriers in many markets worldwide. I-mode subscription growth is expected to ease to 46% annually for the fiscal year ending this March, down by one-third from last May. Japanese are not signing up for cell-phone services of any kind as quickly as they were, and those who already subscribe are spending less per month. The slowdown has contributed...