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...this year and Rudd's approval rating has slumped from 65% in November to 55% in February. This could be due to the rising popularity of Tony Abbott, the leader of the opposition since December. Stopping whaling to the country's south has so far sat on a list of unfulfilled election promises with issues such as health care and housing. "I challenge the prime minister either to take Japan to the International Court or to admit that that was always just an empty gesture," Abbott told a government meeting in January...
...finally saw the system in action earlier this month. Caught short by a sick nanny, my son, who was accustomed to eating leftovers from the refrigerator, sat in silence with his 25 classmates at tables in the nursery-school cafeteria, while city workers served a leisurely, five-course meal. One day, when I arrived to collect him, a server whispered for me to wait until the dessert course was over. Out in the hall, one of the staff shouted for "total quiet" to a crowd of 4-year-olds awaiting the next lunch seating. "I will now read you today...
...went to Madison Square Garden to see Tyler Perry's new musical, Madea's Big Happy Family, a day after I sat through a Broadway revival of Noel Coward's 1939 play Present Laughter. I noticed a few differences. In Coward's play, the main character, a famous stage actor, spends most of the evening in a dressing gown delivering bons mots to an entourage of fellow theater people. In Perry's show, a sharp-tongued grandmother delivers sassy put-downs and motivational lectures to a brood of squabbling family members. Coward's plot reaches a climax as the actor...
...stage work gets little mainstream attention. Indeed, critics were not invited to see or review Madea's Big Happy Family. I bought my own ticket and sat near the back of the nearly full Madison Square Garden theater, one of the early stops on a tour that will stretch into May. (Next week: Jacksonville, Fla.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Winston-Salem, N.C.) It was a bracing reminder that popular theater is still thriving in America - well under the radar and way off Broadway...
Consider his performance Saturday night. In Ohno's quarterfinal heat, he sat in third place for most of the race (the top two finishers advance to the next round). With the other skaters crowded together in front of him - the athletes are so bunched up while circling around the 111-meter track, it looks like they're competing in somebody's kitchen - Ohno's quest was in serious danger. But his patience and mental acuity finally paid off. Ohno spotted an opening, and quickly slipped past Germany's Tyson Heung. If you looked down to take a sip of your...