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...them are. It's probably too much to expect Broadway theater to reflect our current economic troubles, but there's something particularly rarefied and irrelevant about the plays arriving this spring. Most are short (waiting out an intermission is apparently too much to ask of an audience these days), slight and largely oblivious to much that is happening in the world outside the theater. Even the season's hit political satire, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, is one Administration - and what seems a whole political era - out of date. Dan Gordon...
...failing grade - not because the President's advisers were bad at math, but because the CBO found that the economy is expected to recover so slowly as to make the Obama policy proposals unsustainable. The new "Era of Responsibility," it turned out, runs into big trouble with just a slight long-term decline in economic projections...
...Somalis are fed up with 20 years of fighting and no government, and are willing to give Sharif a chance," she adds. "He's someone who had a hand in the ICU, but who can also approach other Somalis. They see him as good enough. There's a slight chance that things are moving in the right direction...
...Maybe there is a small break between Putin and Medvedev, but it is slight," says Khramchikhin. "Regarding a new openness, it may be accepted - but only if Medvedev begins a fight with Putin ... will [it] have a purpose." See pictures of Victory Day in Russia...
Location: So Flyby might have a slight bias toward Plympton Street, but the location is clearly ideal. It's a central hub between party venues on the river and the drudgery of the Yard. Finals club groupies can rejoice—no matter which club you got crazy at last night, your walk of shame shan’t be too protracted. Quincy House also offers quick access to Tommy’s, which proves invaluable when you run out of mixers...