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...gleefully breaking down the fourth wall and succeeding with difficult physical comedy, which many Harvard actors find alien; Wilson’s staging of the show’s legendary opener, “Comedy Tonight,” as well as the romp, “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” were particularly impressive...
...wouldn't be overly critical of Ellis' confabulations in his classroom when he taught about the Vietnam War. I would suspect that he merely animated his topic a bit. True, it's embarrassing for Ellis--and he ought not to have done it--but as a mark of scholastic duplicity, it gets a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. DOUG URBANUS Ben Lomond, Calif...
...east Asia has not been seriously touched by Turkey and Argentina. But those not-so-far-away problems are making regional governments hesitant to take the bold measures needed to stimulate demand at home, such as lowering interest rates. Asia's huge trade surpluses ought to be spurring spending at home. But they are not being put to use for fear that irrational markets will seize on a statistic, such as a current-account deficit, as an excuse to savage an Asian currency...
...Even some moderate Democrats agree. Sen. John Breaux, who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging and has served on past commissions studying privatization, believes that Americans ought to have the option of investing some of their Social Security payroll tax in the market--just as congressmen and senators now do. "The current beneficiaries, I think, have been unfortunately scared into believing that if the government doesn't do it all, like we have been doing since 1935, then it won't be safe," Breaux told me in a recent interview. "I think that's not correct. The stock market...
...them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. The meat and potatoes, so to speak, of the insect biz are grasshoppers, beetles and bamboo worms. Some delectables, such as spiders, remain specialty items. "They're big, black and hairy," says Nusara, and she ought to know: she once enjoyed tarantulas on a stick. "They're good food, but let's face it. Bugs have...