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Sino-U.S. joint ventures are just a modest beginning to repair China's ailing health-care system, according to Pasqualine Wolfermann, emergency-response director for MEDEX Global Group Inc., a travel-assistance and medical-insurance company based in Baltimore. "For the extent of the population and the number of business travelers now in the area, there's really not enough," she says. MEDEX still transports its most seriously ill clients to Hong Kong. "In terms of medical care, China is one of the most challenging countries," she says. But it's also ripe with opportunity for businesses with...
Maher and his crew travel the world in an effort to expose, in the words of director Larry Charles, “the hilarious logic” at the core of organized religion. The situations and subjects portrayed consistently reveal the creepy state of denial in which religious leaders settle themselves; they refuse to acknowledge both older and more modern challenges to faith that Maher forces them to confront in an age when religion is the cause of so much turmoil, so much war, and, let’s face it, so much awkward porn. (Note: “Religulous?...
...cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from “Flight of the Conchords”) and a man decked out in tan flannel travel from Tokyo to Paris in another cardboard box. The deliveries of weapons labeled “mutiny” to a furry unicorn and a comely bear reveal the ultimate literality of this video; the plot sequence sticks closely to the lyrics, like a child’s storybook, though the video...
...stately decor of the Plimpton Room of the Humanities Center. Armantrout, whose newest collection of poems, “Verse,” will be published in February, decided to make a stop at Harvard yesterday after touring much of New England, for readings as well as personal travel. The event was described by Sean M. McCreery, a staff assistant in the English department, as “smaller than usual.” Along with the spontaneity of the reading, it fell on the same day that two other major poets gave readings in the area, including John Ashbery...
...We’re going to go hunting for grace.” “Let Me Down Easy,” which was conceived, written, and performed by Smith and will run at the American Repertory Theatre through Saturday, is indeed a hunt: we travel from her Maryland hometown to Harvard to Rwanda to New Orleans, searching for affirmation that humans really aren’t that bad and finding at the end that the stories that persist with us are those that weigh down the heart. Despite Smith’s best efforts...