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...Partly to counter this problem, Deng Yijian, deputy director of the center, recently announced the launch of an art-education project including lectures on Western classical music. The theater has also promised to offer more affordable tickets for coming performances. "The National Grand Theater is not an exclusive club for the prestigious," says Deng, "but a public cultural infrastructure for everyone." It wasn't for everyone during opening week. But if Deng is right, "the egg" just needs more time to hatch...
...troupe professional, it has become a $3 million-a-year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky); The Angina Monologues (Dick Cheney) and The Sound of Music-inspired How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scalia? Strauss was 60 and had pancreatic cancer...
...held values, involves a lot of winging it. In 1990, for instance, a sponge used in the headpiece of Florida's electric chair wore out. There's no factory or parts catalog for execution devices, so the prison sent a guy to pick up a sponge at the store. Problem was, he bought a synthetic sponge instead of a genuine sea sponge, and when Jesse Tafero was strapped in, his head caught fire. Florida officials diagnosed the problem afterward by testing a similar sponge in a toaster...
...could hardly use more strife this season. This summer the league had to hold a "concussion summit" to tackle the growing problem of career-shortening brain injuries suffered on the football field. Older retired players, broken and broke, clamored for better disability benefits, portraying the league, its rich young players and their union as greedy. Bad player behavior--Adam (Pacman) Jones' involvement in a strip-club shooting, Vick's ties to a dogfighting ring--forced commissioner Roger Goodell to enforce unprecedented penalties for off-field incidents. Then there were tragedies: Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was murdered early New Year...
...modest. "My ambition is to exterminate the word bumbling from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Conservative candidate for mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence from an article: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling-idiot routine is just that--a routine. I'm not so sure...