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...William Shakespeare. Lane keeps those playwrights but adds a twist: Dionysos wants to bring back Shaw to help save the nation from its current troubles - namely, ?a war we may not be able to win. A war we shouldn?t even be in.? Thinly veiled political punches are thrown throughout; Dionysos, for instance, laments that the nation?s leaders are keeping us in fear: ?If we start to question things - merely question - we are accused of being disloyal.? Lines like that drew loud applause from the pre-opening crowd at New York?s Lincoln Center, just days after Linda Ronstadt...
...into action to make sure Kunzru's new novel earns a hefty return on their investment, it's hard to escape the feeling that Transmission is not really a chastisement of our way of living. It is just another amusement that our fully wired, fully market-researched world has thrown up, giving us a chance to laugh quickly at our absurdities before we plunge right back into them...
...happened on Easter weekend in the Highlands? Hanoi says bands of organized "terrorists" armed with sticks, stones, knives and slingshots tried to converge on the provincial capitals from several different directions and attacked security forces. Dozens of protesters were injured and the government claims two were killed by rocks thrown by their own gangs. The authorities claim the clashes were organized from afar by Kok Ksor, a 60-year-old exile from the Jarai tribe who lives in South Carolina and runs the Montagnard Foundation, which tries to publicize the plight of the Montagnards. His goal, according to Hanoi...
...defend against that?” Russell asked. “I’m not Bobby Knight. I didn’t throw a chair at anyone. I’ve never been thrown out of a game. I’m a very active coach [and] I call out plays...I have never been verbally abusive towards an official, but how do you say, ‘I never said that?...
...Chinese government. Pat Powers, Beijing-based director of China operations for the U.S.-China Business Council, says SIPO's decision "sends a negative signal to foreign companies looking to defend their property rights." Still, it's not clear whether China's patent office did anything wrong. Other countries have thrown out Viagra patents for various reasons, and intellectual-property lawyers say that until more details come to light it's impossible to tell whether SIPO had legitimate cause or succumbed to pressure from local drug makers, as critics such as Powers contend. Pfizer says the patent will stay in effect...