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...that he'll soon jump ship, Bratton says even if he stays only another year, "that's enough time to consolidate our gains, so that long after I'm gone, my successors won't retreat." As for Kelly's burning-village imagery, Giuliani and Bratton dismiss such talk as sour grapes, pointing to the benefits of reduced crime being enjoyed by those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people killed on the wealthy...
...stocks. But it may be a stretch to say that the trouble in Washington fully accounts for what has happened in the markets this week. Technology stocks are also falling. Investors seem to think they've overbought them. What's clear is that the mood of investors is growing sour...
...Sour grapes, say Republicans, the griping of Democrats who used to go yum-yum at the same trough where they now go tsk-tsk. In 1994, before the G.O.P. takeover of Congress, Democrats reaped two-thirds of the money donated by the top 400 political-action committees. During the first six months of this year, it was House Republicans who got nearly 60% of campaign contributions from the same sources. In that same period the National Republican Congressional Committee raised $18.7 million, four times the amount that went to its Democratic counterpart...
Audiences at the Loeb Experimental Theater generally go in with patience, expecting something experimental. However, the capricious strangeness which looms over David Levine's production of "Othello" strikes a sour note, especially because mediocre acting fails to salvage the play...
Instead, "Othello" features an eclectic gathering of horrible effects. Othello first enters from beneath an electronic Bud Lite sign. The sound, though well-prepared, goes sour when whimsical musical moments and a garish announcement of the Venetian victory accompanied by disco lay waste to Shakespeare's play. Two guards, listed as "Mechanicals" in the program, wear expressionless masks, and the Herald speaks his lines in a deliberate monotone. Iago's deception of Othello occurs before a projection of Magritte's painting, "The Wind and the Song," and, before the first intermission, an actor walks onto the stage with a sign...