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...live performance but the dress rehearsal of the September 11, 1938 show, "Caesar," a shortened version of the company?s Broadway hit, now with radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn barking out Suetonius? chronicle of the death of a dictator. CBS had renewed the Mercury?s contract for 13 more weeks; it would now be opposite Charlie McCarthy on Sundays at 8. Welles had an over-lapping commitment: "The Shadow" was on from 5:30 to 6:00. So he had less than two hours to get to the CBS studio, run through the dress rehearsal and make changes before the show...
...WEAPONRY Rumsfeld hopes to build the fighting forces of tomorrow, but the brass want more of the weapons of today. After years of lean budgets, they want hardware now. The Pentagon finalized a contract last week for 10 F-22 fighters. And the Army wants to update the M-1 tank. But Bush's budget doesn't provide much new money...
Beasley acknowledges that Wheeler and Berman, who have refused to talk to the media, made it clear in their discussions that they wanted just one child. What's more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, "theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency," including the case of a multiple pregnancy, a real possibility given that three donor eggs fertilized by Wheeler's sperm were implanted in Beasley's womb. The contract required Beasley to honor the couple's decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses...
...Friday brings us back to economic news, in the Friday tradition, and in that tradition, it doesn?t look great. Forecasters say durable goods orders - a measure of both big consumer purchases and business investment - will contract 1.3 percent in July after a 2 percent decline in June. Lehman Brothers sayeth the data "will offer little hope of a recovery in investment spending soon." (Somebody tell the White House.) The Brothers Lehman likewise see bad things from new home sales: a retreat of 1.3 percent in July. Is this the end of the consumer-bolstering housing boom, or merely...
Madagascar, with its bright-eyed lemurs and forested hills, has tried hard to buoy its ailing economy by attracting Chinese investment. The nation's free-trade zones are dotted with apparel factories run by Chinese overlords and staffed with Chinese contract laborers. Last year, Madagascar doled out 600 visas to Chinese workers who construct everything from new roads to button-down shirts. Chinese factory owners prefer to ship in their own countrymen because, as one boss put it: "They work harder for less money." Miss Xu hails from Nanjing, the river port from which Zheng He launched his fleet...