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...show in the West End. This week, for a few hours a night, the inmates at Bronzefield Prison are trading searchlights for the spotlight. The prison gym has been transformed into a small theater, with an orchestra pit at the back and a two-tier stage on which 17 women - all cleavage and fishnets - strut their stuff with the kind of attitude drama school just can't teach. Two weeks ago, rehearsals were still an exercise in controlled chaos. Now, with help from a professional director, choreographer, voice coach, costume designer and three seasoned actors in the lead roles...
...valuable. Membership of the ICC, the sport's international governing body, has expanded from 47 countries in 1997 to 96 last year. The ICC also moved its headquarters from London to Dubai and aims to grow top-level Test cricket from 10 sides today to a 20-strong second tier of cricket-playing countries that include China, the Netherlands and Canada...
...nation's 15,000 biggest plants participate in the voluntary security program. Even Bush loyalists are worried about the vulnerability that remains. "Not all chemical sites are good partners," said Asa Hutchinson, a former top Homeland Security official, at a recent chemical-industry gathering. "Some of the top-tier sites will not let Homeland Security inside the fence...
These are the follies of Harvard life. Our all-encompassing section has two tiers. We have the grand stage performance with its well-crafted jabs and drastically dramatic statements. Action, intrigue, worldwide acclaim—or at least recognition. And we have its touring company, if you will. Controversy on campus gets undergraduates itching—they must pick a side and defend it to the death. No, wait, they must pick a side and be right-ier and more compelling, proving that their right-iness exceeds even the upper tier. But the revival of this hit is just...
...After the Americans defeated the Finns for the bronze medal earlier Monday, Smith referred to a two-tier reality in women's hockey: Canada and U.S.A. on one plateau, everyone else scrambling to catch up. In fact, there are three tiers: Canada and the U.S., Finland and Sweden, then the rest...