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Still, last week's opening of a new revival of West Side Story - the first on Broadway since 1980 - gave me the rare opportunity of encountering an American musical classic in the way, by rights, every show ought to be encountered: as if for the first time. No memories of the original to protect - or, conversely, any need for a radical reinvention to renew my interest. No, I came to West Side Story simply to find out whether, in 2009, the show still entertains, excites, lives up to its gargantuan reputation. And my verdict, alas, is: Not quite...
...enforce its right as owners of the company. In a briefing, Frank contended that the government should exercise this right as the majority shareholder and deny payment for breach of contract. In an appearance on Face the Nation, Frank proposed that in order to exercise these rights, "what we ought to be doing is suing as a shareholder, saying, 'look these are people who were paid bonuses that they weren't entitled...
...personnel areas as much as possible,” Jaeger said. “But it’s still really important to put those priorities out there, and to be sure everybody’s thinking as hard as they can and feeling as much pressure as they ought...to take care of Harvard’s good people...
...right-wing opposition to the Obama administration’s nominations and characterized their disapproval as “a pretext from the beginning to the end.” “She was at least as forthcoming as anybody, and she was as forthcoming as she ought to be,” Fried said. Fried and other former Solicitor Generals submitted a joint letter to the Judiciary Committee endorsing Kagan’s nomination. Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, lambasted Kagan for opposing the Solomon Amendment and challenged her integrity. “The Solicitor General should...
...like to see the matter resolved by the end of next week, though Senate Republicans already blocked a vote on Baucus's bill this week. "Other senators need time to consider the bill," Jon Kyl, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, said on the Senate floor. "The public ought to have a right to review this legislation to make sure it doesn't have any additional loopholes or unintended consequences...