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There is cause to be pessimistic about the [dearth of]high-end straight plays on the West End and Broadway. But the animal itself seems to be living and breathing, because the supply of new young plays seems to be as rich as ever. It seems that there's an awful lot of people under 30 who actually want to write for the theater. And I don't think it matters finally whether their plays are in a 1000-seat house or in a pub, or anything in between. The fact is that people are attracted to new work...
...Dastardly Dynasts Your essay, "Heirs Apparent" [Oct. 1], made me think deeply about the future of Japan and reminded me of the medieval past: in the Heian period, a warrior class descended from rural peasants diminished the power of rich ruling families. History shows that the privileged and protected can't evade changing times forever. Masaaki Otani, Tadotsu, Japan...
...average financial aid package for this year, she said that the University will spend $103 million in financial aid for undergraduates. Baum said a variety of factors contributed to Harvard’s ability to meet its students’ aid needs. “One, Harvard is rich. Two, most of its students are not poor. It’s not easy for other schools to follow the example set by Harvard because they don’t have the money, and they have more low-income students,” Baum said. Donahue took issue with the claim...
...Jobs in Europe's high education sectors are growing at 3% per year, compared to 1% in other sectors. However, the percentage of foreign skilled workers in the E.U.'s overall market is just 1.74%, far behind other rich economies like Australia (9.9%), Canada (7.3%), the U.S. (3.2%) and Switzerland (5.3%). Frattini said the Blue Card could help build a channel of targeted, legal migration, making Europe more attractive, and more welcoming, to migrants with sought-after skills...
...Almost from their founding, the Templars have been rumored a.) to still exist b.) to be impossibly rich, and c.) to guard the Holy Grail (the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper) and other Christian relics. Most of these stories are probably baseless, although for 150 years in the high Middle Ages, their order was incontestably one of the most powerful and creative military and economic forces in the world...