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...Jerry Springer moment," and the chorus dance around him with garlands, the opera displays a touching charm. It's not just the unprintably foul language that is unique. The music is fresh and vibrant; the characters are at once pitiable and funny, and wholly original - except for the uproarious tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan, a tribute to the prancing Nazis in Mel Brooks' The Producers. And that's just the first half. In Act Two Jerry goes to hell to counsel the ultimate dysfunctional family - Satan, Jesus and God - and is forced to confront his own role in people...
...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest’s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...
...only the most recent addition to Harvard’s considerable slate of benefits. The majority of University employees, from workers at the Adams House dining hall to security guards at Harvard’s art museums, are entitled to take Extension School courses through the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP). The plan allows employees who put in at least half-time at Harvard to take a course every semester for only $40. The educational benefits that Harvard employees receive are matched by their health coverage. Workers are given the choice between 9 health plans, including HMOs like Harvard Pilgrim Health...
...student hackers, the weakness of Blackboard systems arises from the reliance on physical rather than electronic security: transaction information travels unencrypted between card-swipe terminals and servers. According to the hackers, the wiring that carries this information is often easily accessible, making it very easy to tap into the system. A hacker can then record and emulate the signals transmitted when a person uses the system to make a purchase or to add money to their balance, opening up a wide range of possibilities for exploitation of the system...
...former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only 3 percent identified Abu Mazen as their Palestinian leader of choice - compared with 35 percent for Arafat, 20 percent for imprisoned intifada leader Marwan Barghouti and 15 percent for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Arafat had hoped that Abu Mazen's domestic political weakness...