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Renovations began on the old Hasty Pudding Theater in 2005, after what Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts (OFA), calls, “a very long and detailed process of talking and looking at theaters and asking ourselves how we wanted to proceed.” According to Megan, the decision to rebuild and refurbish the theater was neither sudden nor surprising...
...perhaps it hopes to twist it into an instructively acerbic fable about answered prayers. But, for all the typically Farrelly gross-out gags (beware the pubic hair scene), it hasn't the nerve either to brand Eddie as an unethical creep or salute his indefatigably amoral ambition to proceed directly from first wife to trophy wife...
...letter addressed to students who had e-mailed her with complaints, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd emphasized that private parties could still proceed, as long as they follow House and entryway rules. She declined to comment on the UC’s vote...
...diplomacy is the art of stroking your enemies right up until the moment you're ready to strike them, the snub is a handy little act of war by other means. Handled correctly, it visibly treats its target as invisible. Thus did Laura Bush proceed to her seat in the U.N. General Assembly, steadying herself on the desk occupied by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but apparently ignoring him as he glanced her way. "The despondent despot," gloated the New York Post, "immediately lowered his head again" and sat back to look at his watch and listen as President Bush...
...unused to being the subject of legal probes. A criminal investigation was launched earlier this year into his role in the sale of Bank Leumi when he was still finance minister. His lawyers have tied up that case with questions and motions and it has yet to proceed to an indictment. Olmert's office says that the privatization of Leumi, a state-run bank, was done according to law. As for the apartment scandal, Olmert's aides deny that any laws were broken...