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...outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...
...other side, worried government bankers agree with Guido Carli, former chief of Italy's central bank, that Eurocurrencies have become ''the root of all evil in the international monetary system.'' In this huge worldwide market, currencies can be traded almost instantly and without restraint. This fosters monetary instability, and since the dollar is such a large part of the system, the instability can drive down the value of the buck. Private bankers and corporate finance officers can wildly exaggerate any currency's weakness and cause its value to plummet as they unload billions...
...fans--those who sit in the expensive box seats along Brattle St. and the low-rent bleachers around the rest of the city--root for the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) squad, the New York Yankees of Cambridge hardball politics...
Sarah Venable as Maddie, the buxom secretary to the committee who is the root of Parliament's moral problem and who seems to know every government official by his first name, is the centerpiece of the show in more than just a visual way. Stoppard starts this character out as an unembellished dumb broad, and about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft...
...intricate schemes to abscond with large sums of cash must be perpetrated by terribly nice and attractive people and against chilly, faceless institutions is an understandable one. After all, if we are to enjoy these tales we must, for the length of the film, set aside conventional morality to root for the criminals and against their victims. But in this film the crooks are so pleasant that they practically recede to ectoplasmic levels before our eyes, while the bank they set out to heist is so anonymous that it does not provide them with a properly menacing nemesis. The result...