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...reimbursement of expenses. Unless EAI supporters win three out of the five open seats in this week's school-board election, the company's contract will probably be terminated altogether. Still, EAI chairman and CEO John Golle downplays the trouble. "The press is making this out as Waterloo," he says. "I don't think so at all. School reform is a freight train moving down the track...
GINGRICH: As Wellington said after Waterloo, this is a close-run thing. We've had five or six near-death experiences, and we're now going to see if we can pass the tax bill. I think, in part, the strength of it all has been that we were able to create a momentum that I think is literally unprecedented in American political history. The only parallel is F.D.R. in '33. The design worked overall, but I don't think you could sustain it. I mean, we never thought you could do 200 days. The next round...
Need to know the current temperature in Boulder, Colorado or Stockholm? Just point and click. Want to hear what's being said right now in the University of Waterloo's computer-science club? A microphone in the office is linked to the Internet. Like to see how other people spend their days? There are live cameras, accessible through the Web, pointed at busy laboratories all over the world...
...Becker is more preoccupied than ever with the inner-most matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a mere bleat, his ear for catchy grooves gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz...
Perhaps best known for Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn is one of the world's most widely produced playwrights (translated into 32 languages) and surely among the most inventive. Over the years he has found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial...