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Above all, however, “The Oresteia” left audiences with the sense that they were witnessing the echo of an ART (American Repertory Theater) show proper: the juxtaposition of a classical text with zany costumes, video projections, moments of kookiness, and po-mo poignancy were served up in proportions roughly equal to what one pays ten times the price to witness during the ART season (think: Highway Ulysses...
Sitting in the cafeteria of the National Taiwan University in Taipei last week, M.B.A. candidate Fan Po-yu is considering his future?150 km across the Taiwan Strait, in China. In classes, Fan, 23, is learning how to conduct business on the mainland. After-hours, more experienced friends tell him how to conduct himself once he gets there. (Don't talk politics; if someone asks about Taiwan's disputed status as a renegade Chinese province, shut up.) Regardless of the tricky politics, Fan's eyes are set firmly on China. "It's where the opportunities...
...that and promptly took the junior downtown, where he awoke the next morning with no recollection of the night’s events, no clothes, and a massive headache. Now faced with repeated calls from the Cambridge Po regarding other incidents of break-ins that night, the honest boy can only reply, “It’s possible...
...told a group of officials he was willing to take responsibility for last week's blast, according to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. But it will take more than that before Fuxin's workers feel safer underground...
...French regularly rank him just after Charles de Gaulle in their catalogue of favored Presidents, even if his political legacy remains unclear. "The left's problem is that there is no Mitterrand doctrine, like the one De Gaulle left behind," notes Dominique Reynié , a political scientist at Sciences Po in Paris. Even on furthering European unity, a Mitterrand mainstay, his party is now divided. And the world is too interconnected, the state's power too constrained by the market, for any French president to adopt quite the same air of sovereignty Mitterrand made his own. He would be delighted...