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...Beckett can allow particular changes in his play without opening the floodgates to any changes. If Beckett thinks a flooded stage is okay as a backdrop for minimalist drama, but a ravaged T-stop is not, that is his legal prerogative. It is also a defensible artistic prerogative. Eight thousand gallons of water is, for example, an a historical, "elemental" setting in a way that a subway car identifiably belonging to a Boston subway...
...Killing Fields recounts the true story of American reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran. During the early 1970s American bombers poured several thousand tons of TNT onto Cambodia, resulting, quite logically, in the death of several thousand innocent Cambodians. Schanberg covered these American atrocities for the New York Times, with Pran working overtime as photographer-translator-copy boy. When the Khmer Rouge, the target of Nixon's B-52s, managed to overrun Phnom Phenh, Schanberg decided not to join the general exodus of Westerners, trusting to the aura of untouchability bestowed upon anyone possessing a Times press...
...assemble, for the first time, all of the literary essays, criticism and reviews of Henry James (1843-1916). Their publication is surprising for two reasons. Given the scholarly industry that has been applied to James' work over the past several decades, it is astonishing to learn that nearly a thousand of these pages, roughly one-third of the total, have never before been issued in book form. What is more, the appearance now of this unfamiliar material reveals the Old Master in a new light: a great American novelist who wrote more superb criticism than any compatriot, before or since...
Traditionally, bank directorships are honors bestowed on the brightest stars of the corporate world, since they don't really require extensive knowledge of the banking industry. Director's aren't required to attend board meetings, and in fact get paid up to a thousand dollars for each meeting they attend. Although it has taken government intervention to do it, the banking industry may finally realize, as a result of the FDIC's clear signal, that in accordance with the position of responsibility, board seats should be filled by men whose experience suggests true expertise in the field of banking...
...point of convenience, which is exactly the point that the Industrial Revolution originally spied, strode toward and reached. Who in Dover today would describe the world as various and beautiful and new? Yet how is the world less so than it was 134 years ago or a thousand, or the way it will be a thousand years hence, since its variety, beauty and novelty are always in the hands of people no different from those who strolled about the harbor or slept as Arnold scratched out his poem by the window? Everything depends on how one wishes to live...