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	<description>Reports &#038; Analysis by Investigative Journalist Lucy Komisar</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Waiting for Godot&#8221; &#8211; Beckett on the uselessness of expecting God to save us from misery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me the mystery of Samuel Beckett's play about two down-at-the-heels hobos who watch an overbearing "master" abuse a pathetic slave is the division of the audience into those who laugh and those who don’t.
 
I noticed this years ago when I first saw the play Off Broadway. There it was again at the current Roundabout Theatre production. When I commented about it to my seatmate at intermission, a lady in the row in front of us (in her 60s) turned around and nodded emphatically. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pure Confidence&#8221; traces a slave jockey to &#8220;freedom&#8221; in Saratoga, New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Cato (Gavin Lawrence) in his gold and purple stripes is cheeky, witty, a charmer as a jockey. Step back. This is 1861 and he is black; cheeky translates to "impudent," (a challenge to power). A "witty" black man probably had no translation. Colonel Wiley Johnson (Chris Mulkey), who has hired Simon to ride his racing horse, pleads, "Will you try and behave like a slave for just a few minutes!"]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Joe Turner&#8217;s Come and Gone&#8221; a poetic, surreal, tragic vignette of blacks coping with vestiges of slavery</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/05/joe-turners-come-and-gone-a-poetic-surreal-tragic-vignette-of-blacks-coping-with-vestiges-of-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August Wilson's powerful, moving play conjures up a mood that is both poetic and surreal, though on the face of it, it is completely naturalistic. Perhaps it's the distance of time, nearly a century ago, 1911, when blacks, only 50 years away from the start of the Civil War, were living on the border between slavery and freedom. Or it could be the ethereal staging by director Bartlett Sher, who excellently follows Wilson's intent to turn the characters into symbols of their kind as well as real people. Sher starts that by showing the characters first in silhouette.]]></description>
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		<title>OECD Tax Havens Deal Falls Short, Critics Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 20:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inter Press Service (IPS), May 8, 2009

MIAMI BEACH - Jeffrey Owens, the tax "point person" of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was stung by activist critics of the OECD standards under which countries will be put on a tax haven blacklist and targeted for sanctions.
The blacklist was announced last month at the London meeting of the G20, which said in a communiqué that it would "take action against non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens...to deploy sanctions to protect our public finances and financial systems."

Key civil society criticisms are that the OECD standards require bilateral agreements for information on request, not automatic multilateral tax information exchange; that they call for only 12 such agreements to be signed by each tax haven; and that getting off the blacklist entails only promises, which have not been kept by tax havens in the past.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Exit the King&#8221; features a brilliant Geoffrey Rush in cosmic joke about mortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 03:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Exit the King" is Ionesco's witty satire on the corruption of those in power, given a tongue-in-cheek staging by Neil Armfield with a bravura performance by Geoffrey Rush as King Beringer, the man with only 90 minutes to live. Berenger loves parties. Well, the party's over. Or about to be. The party, of course, is life.]]></description>
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		<title>IRS on the Track of Tax-Cheating &#8220;John Doe&#8217;s&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inter Press Service (IPS), April 30, 2009

MIAMI BEACH -- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is hitting pay dirt with a novel legal tactic designed to catch tax evaders. And it's going to use it to force international banks to give up the names of tax cheats.

It's called the "John Doe" summons. Using "John Doe" means the IRS doesn't know the names of the suspected tax evaders.
So it sends a summons to a bank or credit card company that says, "Give us the names and account information of all your U.S. clients with secret offshore accounts."

Daniel Reeves, an IRS agent in charge of the tax agency's offshore compliance initiative, afforded an unusual look into the broad swath of projects that seek tax-cheating "John Doe's" every place from accounts of the giant Swiss bank UBS to the records of Pay Pal.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Kooza&#8221; is grace and fantasy for adults, as well as thrills for kids</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/kooza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never seen anything like the three acrobatic contortionists who twisted and bent to the sound of Indian music under the Cirque de Soleil tent on Randall's Island. Their movements created living sculptures that shifted and held and then moved to another pose. Clad in colorful, patterned skin-tight leotards (costumes by Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt), they were stunning. Memorable.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;33 Variations&#8221; goes back to Beethoven to examine the creative mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What moves the creative and intellectual mind? Where does beauty lie? Those questions animate “33 Variations,” the provocative play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman and starring Jane Fonda. The production doesn’t quite reach the level of intellectual stimulation to which it aspires, but it deserves plaudits for dealing with ideas as well as sentiments.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why Torture is Wrong, and the people who love them&#8221; &#8211; a satire for our time</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/why-torture-is-wrong-and-the-people-who-love-them-a-satire-for-our-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you satirize torture and torturers? If you're comically stinging playwright Christopher Durang, you stick pretty close to the truth till weirdness and absurdity overtakes the brutality. In this brilliantly funny play, Durang blunts the edge of what might appear to be gruesomely violent by turning reality into farce. He gets a lot of help from director Nicholas Martin who transforms right-wing psychopaths into figures of comedy.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Happiness&#8221; is a fleeting moment in this mixed musical pastiche</title>
		<link>http://thekomisarscoop.com/2009/04/happiness-is-a-fleeting-moment-in-this-mixed-musical-pastiche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Komisar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanley (Hunter Foster) was an investment banker, a master of leveraged buyouts. As Foster tells it in song and dance, he was an "overachiever of insider trading," moving "a step up the ladder of legalized crime." Then, at 42, he had a massive heart attack. And died.

Now he's the conductor on the train in this whimsical pastiche by John Weidman (often clever lyrics by Michael Korie, tuneful music by Scott Frankel) about people on the way to the netherworld - via a New York subway car with silvery benches -- instructed to remember the best moments of their lives. It's where they will spend eternity.]]></description>
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