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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Proof, if needed, came at a recent London performance of _Gethsemane_, David Hare’s new play about rot in British politics. The audience was silver-haired and well-heeled. On some seats lay coats by Hare’s fashion-designer wife, Nicole Farhi. And sitting in the audience was Lord Levy, a prominent Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Levy is widely seen as the model for the play’s Otto Fallon, a Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Reviews had already parsed the similarities between Hare’s characters and real-life Blairites, while newspapers had printed accusations from Levy’s rabbi — who hadn’t seen the play — that the character of Fallon was anti-Semitic. Infuriated, Hare had refused pre-opening interviews. “It’s incredibly difficult to create a work of art and have anybody talk about the work itself,” he says over tea at a London hotel, a month into the play’s run. Britain may be small — and its press sometimes small-minded — but Hare has helped stretch its artistic influence across the Atlantic. His plays set theater fans buzzing in both London and New York City; most recently _The Vertical Hour,_ a look at the Anglo-American political and cultural divide, and before it, _Stuff Happens,_ about the run-up to the Iraq war in the White House. In 2007, Hare directed Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in a well-received adaptation of Joan Didion’s _The Year of Magical Thinking_. And his screenplays are like catnip to the Hollywood A-list: the one he wrote for _The Hours_, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, earned him a 2002 Oscar nomination. Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s novel _The Reader_. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager’s love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it’s both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. _The Reader_ revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater’s great connector, examining the joins between the personal and the political even as he straddles the chasm between America’s showbiz glitz and Britain’s leftist theatrical tradition. **Keeping it Real** After around 35 years as British theater’s keenest observer of power, you’d think Hare, 61, would be used to the critical parlor games his work inspires. There’s a long-standing ritual among theatergoers of playing connect-the-dots between public figures and Hare’s versions of them. Some would say that’s exactly the kind of reaction the playwright should expect — even aim for. “If you want to write about subjects that are based on historical events, and you want people to be challenged, to look at these events in a different light, you shouldn’t be surprised when they confuse reality with fiction,” says Richard Eyre, former director of the National Theatre and a frequent Hare director. But Hare continues to be rankled by the obsession with the factual backdrop to his art. “I don’t deny that I’m a political writer, but there’s more to my work than just the politics,” he says. “\[Political\] journalists write about my plays. Because they don’t necessarily understand works of art, they write about them in ways that make them sound like documentaries.” It’s rarely a coincidence that Hare’s characters have an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. His hard stares at Britain’s institutions — the Church of England in _Racing Demon,_ the tabloid press in _Pravda_ — are so well-researched that his critics have sniffed that he’s a better journalist than playwright. Before the opening night of _Pravda_, a 1985 collaboration with provocative British playwright Howard Brenton about a Rupert Murdoch-like press baron, the show’s producers were so nervous about the similarities that they consulted a libel lawyer. In _Obedience, Struggle and Revolt,_ a 2005 collection of his lectures, Hare recalls the lawyer’s response: “Your play portrays a megalomaniac psychopath who drags his newspapers downmarket, who has no concern for editorial standards, who has no sexual pleasure except in the public humiliation and violent dismissal of his staff. If Rupert Murdoch really wants to step forward and identify himself as the hero of the play, then my advice would be: Let him.” The main character wasn’t all bad: as played by Anthony Hopkins, he was the sexiest media monster possible. More often, though, the strength of Hare’s villains is in their subtlety. In his work, even the most compromised of characters, like Hanna Schmitz, _The Reader’s_ Nazi guard, show glimmers of humanity. The challenge with Schmitz, says Hare, was to make a Nazi move the audience, even as the full horror of her actions unfolds. The trickiest scene — for Hare, Winslet (who plays Schmitz) and director Stephen Daldry — was the war-crimes trial, in which Schmitz is accused of killing 300 prisoners by keeping them locked in a burning church. Having earned the audience’s sympathies by refusing to reveal a personal secret that would mitigate her responsibility, she then takes them from empathy to horror. When Schmitz finally blurts out that she couldn’t unlock the church because to do so would mean “chaos,” the moment is astonishing. “You follow her logic, but then suddenly Kate twists it,” says Hare. “That’s where Kate really looks like a Nazi.” **The People’s Playwright** Hare stands out as a highly collaborative writer, eager to work closely with directors and actors. It’s a legacy of his days on the road with the leftist theater company he co-founded after graduating from Cambridge University. He arrived at Cambridge in 1965 a confirmed Americophile, having spent six mellow months in California. But soon enough he was studying literature with the Marxist critic Raymond Williams, and spending evenings debating how to cause maximum damage to Britain’s ruling class — by bombing Buckingham Palace, Parliament or London’s financial district? Hare’s big ideas aren’t as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: “priests or policemen, social workers or teachers,” he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse of the capitalist system, his later works are less absolute, exploring “the necessary hypocrisies of public life.” With the state of politics today, Hare won’t be out of a job anytime soon. But, as he has discovered, sometimes audiences would rather focus on hope than hypocrisy. He frets that _Gethsemane’s_ initial reception was muted because it opened during the glow of Barack Obama’s election. “All these people came, in a wonderful mood,” he says. “Then they sat down and were faced with the shenanigans of the old gang, behaving in their usual dreadful way. You could feel in the audience a sense of ‘We don’t want this.’ ” Within weeks, though, the audience’s cynicism had returned, and the play drew cheers. 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