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...integrating the A.R.T. more fully into campus life. “At the top of my agenda is to make the A.R.T. the most thriving, vital center for theater at Harvard,” she says. THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOWWhen Paulus was a Harvard undergraduate in the 1980s, the American Repertory Theater was just such a center for students involved in theater. “Being a student here at Harvard and coming to the A.R.T. and seeing shows in the mid-80s was a huge influence on shaping my vision for the possibilities of theater. The work...
...opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap on. In the late 1980s, the area was home to just a few hundred residents; today more than 100,000 live in Highlands Ranch...
...peak in the 1980s, the oil pipeline from the North Slope carried 2 million bbl. a day. The flow is now about a third of that, and supplies are projected to dwindle further. Alaska has seen these boom-and-bust cycles before. The "seal mines" of the Pribilof Islands, the salmon canneries, the Klondike gold rush--all these short-lived booms appealed to what New Deal--era Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes once derided as Alaska's "gambling spirit." Palin is now rolling the dice on the national stage with a political persona based in part on her willingness...
...When I first went to China in 1985 they were celebrating this holiday,” said Anne L. Fessenden, an affiliate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Fessenden taught English in China for four years in the 1980s...
...Faisal points out that Saudi Arabia has done this before: The port towns of Jubail and Yanbu were built from scratch in the 1980s and '90s. But those were essentially designed to create industrial infrastructure, and little attention was given to the quality of life of those who had to move there. As a result, both cities have come to be seen as somewhat dreary outposts, better suited for workers living in dormitories than families...