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Have you ever traveled 6,000 miles to attend a single cultural event? I did, last month. The event was "The Coast of Utopia," a trilogy of Tom Stoppard plays directed by Trevor Nunn for the National Theatre in London. With a running (or ambling) time of 9hrs.30min, a cast of 30 adults and 15 children, and an elaborate physical production, "The Coast of Utopia" was unlikely to be mounted anywhere else. I had to be there...
...cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have our good and bad days," she says. But business is picking up, no one has left, and their kindly yoga instructor even donates her time. Says Tanaka: "She says we need it now more than ever." --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Elizabeth Coady/Chicago, Collette Parker/Atlanta, Eric Roston/Washington...
Upon reentering Harvard Square, Teddy explained that the Square is an urban utopia for the unshoed. The classical sidewalk construction technique of using individual red bricks oriented side-by-side, which is so common in and around the Square, leaves tiny gaps that serve as useful repositories for meddlesome glass, rocks and rusty nails that could spoil an otherwise lovely barefooted jaunt...
...TECH-UTOPIA...
Nozick was best known for the critique of the welfare state that he offered in his highly influential first book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick argued that the size of the state should be as small as possible, favoring Libertarian policies that do not interfere with individual rights...