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...that Utopian coast. On weekdays, one or two of the plays were performed, but each Saturday the National put on a grand Stoppardian bouffe. The first of the trilogy, "Voyage," began at 11 and ended at 2:15; the second part, "Shipwreck," commenced at 3:15 and went till 6:30; and the finale, "Salvage," started at 7:30 and let out around 10:45. As a theater-binger from way back (the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Nicholas Nickleby," Bill Bryden's production of "The Miracles" for the National), I welcomed the chance for total immersion in non-stop-Stoppard...
...registrars work on through the month of September, and we try to wait till the last minute until they have a complete list,” Kinchla said. “It’s complex...
...successors to Jiang Zemin and Co. chosen this week rose through a deliberate, meritocratic process of promotion that favors skillful politician-administrators. Yet the final list of the Party leadership was settled against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle comprising backroom lobbying and furtive corruption investigations that continued till the last possible moment. Modern information technology and a windy propaganda blitz coexist with the utmost secrecy about everything that matters: who will be elected to lead the country, how they got where they are, and what they stand...
...table, he plops a fry on my plate. "You gotta try one." I ask him what he will be doing five years from now. "Getting on a plane. Going somewhere to tell jokes." Ten years from now? "Till they lower me down. That's the end of the tour." Why do successful stand-ups move on to movies and TV? "Low prestige." Would you go back to TV? "I can't do that job to distinction," he says. "I have a chance to do this job to distinction...
...meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime Minister wasn't protecting him." That evening, Takenaka said the publication of his plan was postponed till the end of October, though he later insisted that he wouldn't temper his proposals. Since then, economic debates in the Diet have been fiercely divisive, leaving Takenaka and Koizumi badly bloodied...