The complete online text of Plays by Alexandr Ostrovsky.

Considered by many to have been his country's greatest dramatist and the founder of its national theater, Aleksandr Ostrovsky belongs to the nineteenth-century Russian Realist tradition along with novelists Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, an...

On the top floor of the Trocadero it sounds as if all the demons in hell are holding a disco. Relentless dance music is pierced by shrieks and squeals, sirens, gun shots and electronic beeps pitched fractionally above human endurance. Children in cages...

Play-by-Play. Ronald A. Smith. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 320 pp. $45 hbk. Regardless of the size of the institution of higher education at which you teach, the content of Play-by-Play should be of interest to you. Whether you are...

Congress: Turns out Donald Rumsfeld resigned as secretary of defense before last year's election. But Republicans who think announcing his departure would have saved their majority are deluding themselves.The resignation letter of the defense secretary who presided over the liberation of Iraq was made public...

Somehow the boss doesn't see through their act and they get ahead. They're the office suck-ups. It's an issue that smacks of dishonesty, as employees try to curry favor by telling the boss how great he or she is, regardless of the truth. But people...