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When the caution flag comes out in Formula One (F1) racing, crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when yellow came out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based at the McLaren Technology Center in leafy Woking, south of London, who were using prediction software they had developed to help them make split-second...
...cost proposed election promises and find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that were closely identified with former leader Mark Latham (such as the deeply flawed funding model for schools and the health-care money pit known as Medicare Gold...
...it.When “A Chorus Line” works—and it does frequently work—it is not thanks to Noyer and Shields’ direction or production. It is thanks to individual cast members overcoming unremarkable choreography, boring staging, and a really awful pit orchestra by sheer force of personality. There are really great moments in what is generally a mess.“A Chorus Line,” with music by Marvin Hamlisch and a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, originally opened on Broadway in 1975. The show takes place over...
...into exaggeration and caricature. For the most part, this works, as it is delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with aplomb. Especially good are Lloyd-Bollard, as the perpetually-angry newscaster Sian, and Renaud, as the flighty and emotionally fragile artist Wynne. When the play aims for genuine pathos, however, it falls...
...Nothing comes of this epistolary effort. Even O?Grady comes to realize that a pleasant little chat around some barbeque pit is not going to set things right. We come to realize, of course, that we are once again in the presence of evil?s banality. We also realize, naturally, that there is no redress for monstrousness of the kind he practiced. Psychopathic behavior of his kind is far beyond the realm of ordinary understanding, let alone forgiveness...