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This "property" (one wouldn't want to dignify it with any grander term) comes complete with a gimmick: No man - not even among the extras - is ever seen or heard in it. The playwright's original text can be described as a hard-working woman's revenge on New York's idle rich, wasting their days on manicures, fashion shows and, above all, gossip. In updating the original, English - who was responsible for the estimable TV series Murphy Brown - has been fairly faithful to her source. Once again, the husband of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) begins an affair with Crystal...
...Indonesians these days are definitely making themselves heard, even in the thatch-hut hamlets surrounding the Archipelago mine. Some in the community, like village headman Marten Katiandagho, believe that preserving the environment is all well and good, but that the area also badly needs the jobs and the tax dollars the mine will bring. "People need to eat," he says. But other villagers have battled Archipelago ferociously, even forming their own NGO, called the Alliance of People Against Mining Waste, to stage protests and lobby in Jakarta. Says Tajudin Hema, one of the leaders of the antimine group...
Many consumers may not have heard the term greenwashing, but they've surely experienced it--misleading marketing about the environmental benefits of a product. Greenwashing isn't new--ever since the environment emerged as an issue in the early 1970s, there have been advertising firms trying to convince consumers that buying Brand X is the only way to save the earth. But as going green has become big business--sales of organic products alone went from $10 billion in 2003 to more than $20 billion in 2007--companies appear eager to associate themselves with the environment, deservedly...
...humanity. The hope-filled Geraldine at first seems like the recounting of good deeds by some spiritual guardian, until the chorus reveals, "I'll be the angel on your shoulder/ My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker." Think R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts the first time you heard...
...Richard Epstein, a Chicago professor and one of the nation's leading libertarians, sees a parallel with Obama's campaign style. When Obama grants audiences to adversaries, Epstein says, "he's got this wonderful manner, cocks his head forward, always asks good questions. You always feel you've been heard out." But in the end, "he doesn't change his mind. He's surprisingly rigid, intellectually...