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With its topical humor and suspenseful plot, the audience cannot help but be drawn (quite literally) into the play. The cast takes witty and spontaneous stabs at contemporary events--as well as each other--and nothing is sacred...
Room 711. A faint scraping sound can be heard in Mary Kate Brown's sixth- grade social studies classroom. The students are on a dig. Each group of three or four has been assigned a plot within an ancient Assyrian site. Their mission: to uncover what is at the site, to analyze carefully each artifact they find, then to formulate and defend a thesis about the nature of the place and the people who once lived there. Not even well-heeled Dalton can afford to take an entire class on an excavation in the Middle East, so these students...
Here's the plot: short of cash but endowed with a wealth of computer skills, a clever employee is able to reach inside the boss's private data base and ``kidnap'' invaluable company secrets by locking them with a sophisticated encryption program. She then sends an anonymous electronic ransom note demanding a wire transfer of $3 million to a blind account in the Cayman Islands -- or the boss's proprietary data will be lost forever...
...chairman of Baring Brothers & Co. suspects his bank was sabotaged by a get-rich-quick plot to wreck the institution. Peter Baring told the Financial Times of London that he believes Singapore-based trader Nicholas Leeson, 28, may have teamed with an accomplice to bet against Baring on the futures market and cash in when the bank went under last weekend. There was no independent confirmation of Baring's charge. Leeson's investments in Tokyo stock futures on Baring's behalf cost the bank more than $1 billion, forcing it into bankruptcy after the market fell last week. Leeson fled...
...excellent choice. As we jaded Americans settled back into our seats to sleep or watch the film, the Elvises gathered eagerly before the screen. Although few American viewers paid attention to the cultural-historical "plot" of this year's feel-good favorite, the film touched an inner chord with the flying Elvises...