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Then there's the revival's one major innovation: two songs, and a good chunk of the dialogue in several scenes, are done in Spanish. This, the creators tell us, is an attempt to acknowledge the show's multicultural theme more forcefully and to make the show more "realistic." It's a worthy sentiment and less of a distraction than I'd feared; enough English is tossed in to keep the Anglo customers from drifting off in confusion, and I, for one, do not miss the English lyrics to "I Feel Pretty." Still, it seems like a gimmick: "realism...
...this West Side Story revival worth seeing? Sure it is. The show's daring, its social message, its innovative use of dance, are still impressive - for both a West Side Story veteran and a virgin. But unlike some other recent Broadway comebacks (the revival of Hair, for example), I didn't come away feeling that a great show had had its place in Broadway history triumphantly renewed. I left the theater with the gnawing sense that a revered Broadway classic may have seen better days...
Madoff never used his asset-management money to trade securities, court documents show. Instead, he largely kept it in his Chase account for years. Though Chase bankers never raised a red flag, another arm of Chase did have suspicions about Madoff, and that raises questions. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...unexpectedness. Just four weeks ago, on the heels of a failed presentation of the Administration's plan to help shore up banks, he was considered indecisive and incompetent. There were calls for him to step down until the President voiced support for his Treasury Secretary on a television talk show...
...Less than two weeks ago, The Washington Post published an article announcing that AIG had paid millions of dollars in retention bonuses to executives of the company. Documents later turned over to the Connecticut Attorney General show that the actual figure was $218 million. To date, the government has loaned AIG $170 billion from various financial assistance efforts, including Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP"), in exchange for an 80 percent stake in the company. However, in apparent disregard of its unmatched failure, AIG chose to honor its employee's compensation agreements, and awarded multi-million dollar bonus to its executives...