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...investigation--which involves about 20 prestigious schools, including Harvard--is aimed at determining whether schools can confer with each other to offer students similar financial aid packages. Such practices may violate the Sherman Antitrust...
...parents. But the Justice Department has decided to look into this practice, as well as into the fact that within groupings -- the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters, for example -- yearly tuitions tend to be similar. Presumably Justice wants to determine whether there is any violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits restraint of trade...
Playwright Sherman, who has not made much of a splash in the decade since Bent, provides in A Madhouse in Goa the best new play of a fecund London year that has already brought new efforts from half-a-dozen top dramatists. Structurally, Sherman's show is two one-acts, but they are linked by one of the cleverest devices in memory. The first piece, A Table for a King, is an exquisitely painful tale of betrayals involving a pathetically dignified Mississippi matron, a sweetly awkward American college boy recovering from a thwarted homosexual infatuation, a casually seductive waiter...
Having enlisted the audience's sympathies, and its knowing nods that the first playlet shows what life is really like, Sherman reveals in the second half that Table is not reality but invention -- the plot, in fact, of a famous '60s novel that a Hollywood producer proposes to contort into an MTV- influenced musical. Sherman's sprawling, ambitious piece has any number of themes, most powerfully the idea that art comforts us by letting us focus on microcosmic disasters so that we can ignore the global ones. Dominating an exceptional cast are Rupert Graves as the young artist...
...West End is having its best season in years, with an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Dustin Hoffman's debut in Shakespeare and a fine new work by American playwright Martin Sherman...