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...Theatre Royal. Coming this summer: Matthew Lillard (Scream, the Scooby Doo films) in David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers at the Arts Theatre; Alicia Witt (Vanilla Sky) in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the New Ambassadors; Holly Hunter in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats; and Dianne Wiest in Kathleen Tolan's The Memory House. Oh, and Spacey begins his directorship of the Old Vic in the fall with Dutch playwright Maria Goos' Cloaca. As that checkered list suggests, some stars use a stint in London in hopes of reviving their flagging movie careers; others...
...that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold. For, as J.R. Daeschner relates in his obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue, True Brits (Arrow Books; 340 pages), they're the kind of thing that passed for "physical culture" among the Anglo-Saxons of yore. And what's more, such ancient sports and kindred traditions...
When a new road is abandoned because some Maori say it will disturb a spirit monster, New Zealanders may fume, but they also laugh. When tribes use their influence to bog down development projects for years, public ire eventually fades. Maori claims to the nation's oil and mineral reserves stirred anger, but the Labour government's firm "no" ensured it was short-lived. Last year's claim to the seabed and foreshores was different. Instead of scotching it, the government offered a compromise, which Maori are still considering. Beach-loving New Zealanders were outraged - and they've stayed that...
...huge North Mine, the work goes on round the clock, 365 days a year, in some of the worst weather on Earth. In summer the ground turns mushy, and the huge trucks bog down. "It's like working in peanut butter," says a Syncruder. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -40°F, the oil sand is so hard it grinds up the shovels' steel teeth as if they were plastic combs. It's not unusual to replace the teeth after a single 12-hour shift. Suncorp, another oil-sands company, has an $8 million annual budget just...
Beginning Aug. 1, consular offices will be required to hold face-to-face interviews with all visa applicants, student or otherwise—an added step that threatens to bog down an already backlogged process, Ladd says...