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Windows are broken and paths half paved in the ramshackle little town of Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives. The absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet still has to drive 10 hours over roads crazy with scooters and cows every time he needs to take a flight (from New Delhi, 300 miles to the south). And when you call his tiny office, you usually hear that "all circuits are busy"--or the five-digit number changed yesterday, or, amid a blizzard of static, you get cut off in mid-sentence, the only small consolation being that...
...this point, but a quick summary shall be provided for those who are still confused: Dionysos is angry because the people of Thebes are refusing to worship him. He hypnotizes the town's women into running maniacally wild in the mountains. They are known as the Bacchae. Pentheus, the ruler of Thebes, tries to capture Dionysos in his human form. He also humiliates the god and his female band of helpers, called Maenads. Pentheus's secret desire to watch the lurid actions of the Bacchae is so strong, however, that Dionysos easily tricks him into dressing as a woman...
...however, both can instantly become powerful leaders on the brink of destruction. LeBow's Tiresias sends chills through the audience with his dark fore-shadowings to the giggling Maenads. Likewise, the perpetually-talented Epstein manages to make his bitter tirade against Agave ring with the pain of a noble ruler disappointing his people, yet he also lashes out in furious anguish at his childlike daughter for the mess she and her disbelieving son have created...
...time for Americans to get better acquainted with the ruler of the world's incipient other superpower. In fact, the two sides of Jiang go a long way toward explaining a remarkable career...
...Egyptian-made furniture to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and not long after, al Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi in 1955. He divorced her after two years and went into the construction business in the United Arab Emirates. After befriending Dubai's ruler, al Fayed won big development contracts for British firms prowling the Persian Gulf. "Of course," says Khashoggi, "there were fees and commissions." This brokering was the foundation of the Fayed family fortune...