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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Still, the offering could be a potential windfall for long-term investors looking to get into a stellar name on the cheap. Hyatt's highly regarded brand, solid balance sheet and savvy management team make it an attractive long-term play, industry experts say. It all comes down to price, says Arabia. "We're anticipating from 2010 through 2015 to see very significant growth in earnings [from major lodging companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyatt's IPO: Bad Timing or Family Necessity? | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy thinks that might be how it would feel if it watched the play WATERBOARD, an Institute for Intermediate Studies production. Club Oberon in Harvard Square will open the play on Sunday...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...play "aims to create awareness and discussion about waterboarding as a form of torture." How, you may ask? Well, performers Nadeem Mazen and Stephanie M. Skier '05 will be waterboarding each other for approximately three minutes of the show. Find out more after the jump...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...Waterboarding seemed to be the term in circulation, and I think it's something that many people do not understand in terms of what it physically looks like," says Skier, the play's director and writer who sought training from someone who had gone through Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE), a U.S. program that trains troops to withstand torture...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...encourage interaction with the audience and employ animation to demonstrate more dangerous forms of waterboarding ("We're not going to do those on stage because we don't want to die," Skier notes). To explore "the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations" of the term "waterboarding," Mazen and Skier will also "play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about 'enhanced interrogation techniques,'" according to the event's Facebook page...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: A Tortured Affair | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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