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...country--is that these companies are pursuing whole chunks of the repertory that New York, with its commercial pressures and unforgiving critics, largely ignores. And local audiences are getting a better taste of the possibilities of theater than most New Yorkers get in an entire season. The plays that succeed on and off Broadway these days are, as a rule, small things: two-and three-character relationship dramas (those big casts cost money!); minimalist exercises in craftsmanship; tidy little plays that convert big subjects into manageable private dramas (Proof, Copenhagen, How I Learned to Drive, to name just...
...inaugural address as Governor of Texas. "I think of my friend Al Gonzales, recently sworn in as a supreme-court justice," Bush said back in 1999. "His parents reared eight children in a two-bedroom house in Houston. They sacrificed so that their children would have a chance to succeed. Al Gonzales has realized their dream." They are words one can imagine hearing again this summer in the Rose Garden if Bush decides to make another dream come true. --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Houston
...hitting a wedge. On par fives, she'll be at a particular disadvantage, since the men can reach the green in two. She'll need three. Her goal is to shoot even par and to make the cut, which last year was at three over. "If I don't succeed," she says, "people will say, 'I told you so.' What's changed...
...semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors and more money. - ULRICH SCHUMACHER, CEO, Infineon technologies
...this recovery, if it comes, will burn on a lower flame; growth rates are lower than in the early '90s, and most analysts believe those lower rates are here to stay. Schumacher, for one, understands that the rules of the road have changed. "The semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors and more money," he says. The key now is finding new applications for chips, such as RFID tags - chips that send signals to scanners to clock inventory and prevent theft - or by adding new audiovisual features to cell...