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...park itself, the entrance led to “They Should All Be Destroyed: A Jurassic Park Play,” a dramatic adaptation of the movie by the Baltimore-based artist collective Wham City. Like the park, the show initially looked like it might lack the technology to succeed in its ambitious enterprise. Before the show began, the audience was treated to a rendition of John Williams’s distinctive theme song that sounded like it was coming from a first-generation Game Boy. The only scenery consisted of a few fake plants and some cardboard painted with...
...pros ends in heartbreak. Even for all-time Ivy League rushing record-holder Clifton Dawson ’07, a brief stint proved to be all the spotlight the NFL would give him.Where those before them have failed, the senior duo believes it may have the ability to succeed, but it will have to get going quickly to catch up with its competitors who have a clear leg up having spent time in the national spotlight. While Division I-AA players like Delaware’s Joe Flacco—now starting for the Ravens—Villanova?...
...succeed at modern diplomacy, it helps to take the long view. As word trickled out that President-elect Barack Obama was considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, Clinton was on the phone with the President of Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari was calling with a long-overdue thank-you. Back in 1998, when Zardari's late wife Benazir Bhutto was powerless and out of favor with the United States, the then First Lady had received her at the White House, over the objections of both the State Department and the National Security Council. Bhutto eventually regained her influence, and before...
...historic summit of Tibetan exiles in the north Indian hill-station town of Dharamsala ended its third full day on a note of optimism that their experiment in democracy might actually succeed...
Conventional economic wisdom holds that the free market alone should determine which companies and industries succeed and fail. A company’s decisions, whether they are wise or poor, are its own to make, and it should have to face consequences of those decisions. The American auto industry giants—namely, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—have made a number of poor, if not self-destructive, choices in the past decade, culminating in their current liquidity crisis. While a healthy economy would survive the bankruptcy of a Big Three auto giant, any such failure could plunge...