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...reaction the playwright should expect - even aim for. "If you want to write about subjects that are based on historical events, and you want people to be challenged, to look at these events in a different light, you shouldn't be surprised when they confuse reality with fiction," says Richard Eyre, former director of the National Theatre and a frequent Hare director. But Hare continues to be rankled by the obsession with the factual backdrop to his art. "I don't deny that I'm a political writer, but there's more to my work than just the politics...
...former top official under Bill Clinton, who will be her chief aide; and Jacob Lew, who will be in charge of planning and managing the financing needed for her proposed expansion of the department. More recently, Clinton tapped two key advisers: Dennis Ross for the Middle East, and Richard Holbrooke for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Both men are powerful, occasionally controversial figures, known for taking blunt positions on issues and pursuing ambitious diplomatic agendas...
...confirmation hearings are expected to cover much of the territory Clinton will likely have to deal with early in her tenure. Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican and a mentor of sorts to Obama, is particularly interested in containing Russia's bad behavior in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Democrats will ask Clinton about plans to withdraw from Iraq, close Guantánamo Bay and boost troop levels in Afghanistan. Junior Republicans, like Lisa Murkowski, will ask about regional issues, like the U.S.'s role in the Arctic...
...name which keeps coming up when these announcements or rumors hit the media is Citi's lead director Richard Parsons, former CEO of Time Warner (TWX). He may take Bischoff's place as Citi chairman but he did not do a bang up job at the media company. He has also been sitting on the Citi board during most of the period when the decisions were made that nearly brought the bank down. It would be hard to defend the position that he is blameless...
...Farewell package, TIME paid homage to the top tier of notables, all sorely missed. Other, longer tributes - to actors Richard Widmark and Suzanne Pleshette, film directors Damiano, Jules Dassin, Youssef Chahine and Robert Mulligan, playwright Harold Pinter, actress-chanteuse Eartha Kitt, FX wizard Stan Winston and movie critics Gary Carey and Manny Farber, as well as the uncategorizable Forrest J Ackerman - were published upon the deaths of these worthies and can be found through Google or on TIME's search engine...