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...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...
...shock to that city as the Pompidou had been for Paris. It extended the Pompidou's externalization-idea skyward. It also worked ambitious variations on an idea developed by the great American architect Louis Kahn, who proposed that a building could be conceived as a system of "served" and "servant" spaces. Servant spaces, the ones set aside for elevators. stairways, pipes, wiring and ventilation, could be housed apart from the served spaces, the offices, factory floors, auditoriums or galleries, in separately articulated volumes. By that means you could divide a single building into an ensemble of varying forms. So Kahn...
...political opponents say that Tsang has not yet shown the kind of world-class leadership Hong Kong needs and deserves. A former civil servant, Tsang was Financial Secretary under Britain's last Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten, and No. 2 in the administration of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first Chief Executive after the 1997 handover to China. Tung-who came from a Shanghainese family rather than from Hong Kong or its neighboring province, Guangdong-was never wildly popular and proved ineffectual, unable to meet the challenges of either a downturn in the economy or of the SARS epidemic...
...exhausted public and to skeptical members of the international community will be even harder. The Palestinian Legislative Council is expected to ratify the new cabinet in a vote on Saturday. Little else will be so straightforward. The newly designated Interior Minister, Hani Kawasmi, a veteran and unaffiliated civil servant, will have to find a way to take control of the numerous Palestinian security forces and instill some sort of order on the streets. Ziad Abu Amr, the Foreign Minister-designate, and Salam Fayyad, who has been tapped as Finance Minister, are both independent moderates with good reputations in the West...
Spinetta was well positioned to handle the labor battle. A career civil servant as opposed to a market-hardened manager, he joined the transport ministry in 1988. He was picked to head the state-owned domestic airline Air Inter in 1990. It was fully merged into Air France in 1997, when Spinetta was tapped to run the whole airline. He immediately appealed to employees to become partners in the company. "If we're all still here today, it's because Spinetta convinced workers that he was serious about negotiating and that the sacrifices we had to make were just," says...