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After dabbling in student journalism and instrumental music, but never acting, Hwang conceived the notion that he was meant to be a playwright. His first work for the stage portrayed a musician asserting his own divinity. What the author remembers most about it is a professor's remark that he plainly knew nothing about creating plays. Undaunted, Hwang succeeded beyond an undergraduate's wildest fantasy with his next try, F.O.B., a reflection on the immigrant experience. Just over a year after the show was staged in his college dorm, it was performed at New York City's pre-eminent...
Proponents argue that people have always gambled and always will -- so governments might as well cut themselves in on the action. Lotteries painlessly raise billions for worthy causes (education in most states, senior citizens' programs in Pennsylvania). Lottery operators love to quote an 1826 remark by Thomas Jefferson that lotteries are a kind of tax "laid on the willing only." Chon Gutierrez, director of the California lottery, goes so far as to assert, "The lottery is not gambling. It's entertainment." And cheap entertainment at that, says Edward Stanek, commissioner of the Iowa lottery, because ticket buyers "can spend...
...time Great Balls of Fire alleges the demon rocker made that remark, plenty of people argued that for him the trip represented no more than a return to his roots, a visit with the home folks...
...this summer could only be discouraged last week by the barrage of criticism hurled at the U.S. agency that is supposed to ensure safety in the skies. In one report after another, the Federal Aviation Administration was assailed for failing to do its job. In a characteristic remark, the National Transportation Safety Board, a separate U.S. agency, described the FAA's management as "inadequate, ineffective and unresponsive." The week's attacks...
Checking his notes after being questioned at a midnight briefing about the remark, Gerasimov quoted Gorbachev as saying, "And we have our hotheads...