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...Purcell led a study group examining 21st-century American cities and what it takes to make them successful...
...noticed by almost all 17th century audiences. When asked about the importance of these subtle hand gestures in a contemporary performance, Hargis said, “The bigger issues of asymmetry and serpentine curves in Baroque performance practice are still helpful to the understanding of this music in the 21st century, even if the smaller subtleties are lost. Sometimes these principles and subtleties will enhance the playing of a character, but sometimes it won’t, which is when—even in a period performance—it seems frivolous to stay true to the Baroque practice...
...Century and that where a generation ago much of the globe was trying to look like America, now it's America that needs to get in tune with the rest of the globe. The very presence of someone like Obama shows this is possible. But the story of the 21st century so far has been of a fast-moving train that the U.S. (like its enemies) declines to board...
...Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then shining the Nazi leader's shoes as he and his henchman sing Kumbaya. Finally seeing the red light, Malone takes the Garden...
Problem is, the essential issue addressed by clean-tech development has less to do with the economy than with climate change, dependence on foreign oil and energy waste - all long-term threats. If green tech will be to the 21st century what high tech was to the last, then this is no time to scale back. With investors rightly spooked, however, governments on both sides of the Atlantic need to show more leadership. "Seen in the right way, people can learn important lessons from [the crisis]," says Nicholas Stern, the British economist whose 2006 report laid out the financial merits...