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Least Protective Protectionism Actors Equity nearly saved one job for an Asian-American actor at the expense of 29 others. When the union balked at letting an English actor repeat his role as an Asian character for the Broadway run of Miss Saigon, the producer threatened to cancel. Equity saw the light, but is now fighting the producer's pick for female lead...
...Life Millie, the White House's resident English springer spaniel, earned more advances than any other member of the Bush clan. The First Pooch released her "autobiography," as dictated to Barbara Bush, and then pawed her way past such rival authors as Ronald Reagan toward the top of the best-seller lists...
Until he was 12, Khalifa attended elementary school in Baghdad, where his Iraqi-born mother went to live after her husband died. Khalifa learned English at a private academy in Cairo, and like every Kuwaiti who wanted a college education before Kuwait University was inaugurated in 1966, went abroad to study. Before being graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from San Francisco State University, Khalifa spent two years at Berkeley, where his chemistry lab partner was Mario Savio, the radical student leader who founded the Free Speech Movement. "To be at Berkeley in the '60s was wonderful," says Khalifa...
...Euro Disney Resort opens for business in 1992, forget the Eiffel Tower, the Swiss Alps and the Sistine Chapel: it is expected to be the biggest tourist attraction in all of Europe. In Brazil as many as 70% of the songs played on the radio each night are in English. In Bombay's thriving theater district, Neil Simon's plays are among the most popular. Last spring a half-dozen American authors were on the Italian best-seller list. So far this year, American films (mostly action-adventure epics like Die Hard 2 and The Terminator) have captured some...
...Athens ceased to be a world power, and yet for the next 300 years, Greek culture, the culture of Athens, became the culture of the world." Much as the Greek language was the lingua franca of the world, Veliz sees the American version of English in the same role. "The reason Greek culture was so popular is very simple: the people liked it. People liked to dress like the Greeks, to build their buildings like the Greeks. They liked to practice sports like the Greeks; they liked to live like the Greeks. Yet there were no Greek armies forcing them...