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	<description>Reports &#038; Analysis by Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar</description>
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		<title>The ICE Age &#8212; big banks set up their own credit default swaps exchange</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/03/the-ice-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[portfolio.com,  March 8, 2010

One year ago, a group of financial institutions quietly launched ICE Trust, a new and theoretically safer way to trade derivatives, a key element of the financial crisis. As lawmakers debate reform, banks at the center of the storm are remaking the market—and stand to profit.

As the financial crisis exploded with full force in 2008, it was obvious that something was gravely wrong with the huge, unregulated market for derivatives. 

Lehman Brothers had $738 billion of these contracts—which are based on the value of some other asset, such as a stock or a bond or a hog belly—on its books when it failed on September 14, 2008.

Lehman certainly wasn’t alone. Over the next few months, insurer AIG reported as much as $53.5 billion of derivatives losses—losses that were linked to nearly one third of its $182.5 billion federal ]]></description>
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		<title>Liev Schreiber gives taut, subtle performance in Miller&#8217;s &#8220;A View From the Bridge&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Miller's story of the betrayal that tears apart a longshore family in Brooklyn was a metaphor for the treachery of the people who "named names" in the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s. In this powerful revival directed by Gregory Mosher, we witness the inexorable downfall of Eddie Carbone (Liev Schreiber), a longshoreman, who forgets the sense of honor and loyalty that is the glue that holds together the hard-working Italian community in Red Hook, on the Brooklyn waterfront, where he and his wife Beatrice (Jessica Hecht) live. His self-interest is not the careerism of the film and theater people who betrayed colleagues to HUAC, but jealousy ignited by the illicit passion he feels for his niece Catherine (Scarlett Johansson).]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Time Stands Still&#8221; is a powerful play about a photographer&#8217;s passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Margulies's powerful and moving play dissects the professional and psychological passion of a photographer who covers the horrors of wars, famine, and genocide. "Time stands still" represents the moment when she presses the shutter button and sees the world only through the view finder. Time stops, sound cuts out; her experience is just what is taking place in the rectangle. There is an objectifying and separation from reality. And for Sarah Goodwin (Laura Linney) it's the only moment in life that counts.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Present Laughter,&#8221; Coward&#8217;s satire of an actor &amp; his entourage, lacks sparkle</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/02/present-laughter-cowards-satire-of-an-actor-his-entourage-lacks-sparkle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garry Essendine (Victor Garber), who has the sense of a flighty youth, is a self-absorbed actor of 54. He is wont to shave a decade or so off his life, especially when he is playing up to pretty young women. Noel Coward's semi-autobiographical comedy is at times amusing – it is meant to be a send-up of the actor and his entourage -- but it's nowhere near as clever as Coward can be. And the production by director Nicholas Martin lacks sparkle. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Clybourne Park&#8221; is a tart witty commentary on racism</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/02/clybourne-park-is-a-tart-witty-commentary-on-racism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking us back to Clybourne Park, to where Lorraine Hansbury's black family moved in "A Raisin in the Sun," Bruce Norris has written a clever, pointed comedy, acted by a superb cast under the well paced direction of Pam MacKinnon, that plumbs the depths of racism to see how it's changed from the blatant late 50s to the more subtle present.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;West Side Story&#8221; is jazzy, brassy revival of conflict and romance among 1950s gangs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The free-floating anger exuded by the "Jets" and "Sharks" as they clash under and leap onto fire escapes is combustible. Any reason for the gangs' hostility? Well, when Officer Krupke (Lee Sellars) arrives in the neighborhood, along the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of New York City, he slams one kid in the stomach with a Billy club. Lt. Schrank (Steve Bassett) comes into a local drugstore and insults the Puerto Ricans as migrant scum. The sociological stage is set. There's nothing dated about Arthur Laurents' revival of his own "West Side Story." This American theater classic is another proof that the best, most enduring musicals (and plays) combine personal stories with political ones.  ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hair&#8221; is simplistic politics but a joyous celebration of the 60s counterculture</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/02/hair-is-simplistic-politics-but-a-joyous-celebration-of-the-60s-counterculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest at "Hair" was an old friend who had been a leader of the 1968 protest movement in Germany. As we left the theater, he shook his head. He said, "We were much more political." That said, and history corrected, Diane Paulus's revival of the 1968 musical now on Broadway captures the mood of part of a generation of young people (a minority of their contemporaries) that helped change the culture. ]]></description>
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		<title>CORRUPTION: U.S. Banks Abetting Corrupt Regimes, Probe Finds</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/02/corruption-u-s-banks-abetting-corrupt-regimes-probe-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inter Press Service (IPS) - Feb 3, 2010

The global bank HSBC may be running offshore accounts for central banks. According to a U.S. Senate investigation, an HSBC subsidiary in London called HSBC Equator Bank had a sister bank in the Bahamas.

According to an internal e-mail, the bank told HSBC USA it had been providing offshore accounts to central banks for 20 years, because the banks wanted to avoid "Mareva" injunctions, legally enforceable orders to freeze funds. ]]></description>
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		<title>A feminist wreaks revenge on author of porn play, &#8220;Venus in Fur&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/01/a-feminist-wreaks-revenge-on-author-of-porn-play-venus-in-fur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In David Ives' ingeniously clever play, a feminist avenger turns the tables on a playwright conducting auditions for a work based on "Venus in Furs," a novel of sexual domination and submission by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th-century Austrian writer. An actress arrives in an audition studio. She's wearing a black leather skirt and tight black lacey underwear top, stiletto-heeled boots, and a silver-studded dog-collar. She's not on the audition list. But she persuades the playwright to let her read, and suddenly she is a 19th-century Austrian aristocrat, charming, articulate, and outrageous in the white flouncy dress she pulls over her grunge-wear. This play plumbs men's psychological connections between sex and power and their view of women. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wormwood&#8221; is stunning 1985 Polish underground theater attack on Communist repression</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2010/01/wormwood-is-stunning-1985-polish-underground-theater-attack-on-communist-repression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about 20 years, from 1964, when Communists ruled Poland and dissidents went to jail, a very extraordinary underground theater troop bucked censorship and pelted the regime with <em>avant garde</em> works inspired by the director Jerzy Grotowski. It played to full houses at shipyards and churches and other opposition stages until the actors in 1985 were forced into exile.

"Wormwood" the name of a star, is a vivid, ironic and satirical attack on the Polish Communist system. First staged in 1985 at the church in Mistrzejowice, near Krakov, it is composed of pointed skits whose double meanings and metaphors were clear to audiences.]]></description>
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