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...over the last 25 years," the (Scottish) festival director Alex Poots told TIME. "We thought we should build a festival about original, modern work." Keeping in the spirit of civic regeneration, the festival's line-up is a varied, multi-sensory experience. It includes ballet from Cuba's Carlos Acosta, gigs from Smokey Robinson and Kanye West, a concert adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath her Feet and a chance to tuck into the unique culinary creations of self-styled "chemistry" chef Heston Blumenthal...
...caucus, consisting of over 80 Puerto Rican students from Harvard and MIT, formed last summer after the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government shut down for two weeks in May 2006. “We wanted to join together to change the economic downslide,” said Katia Acosta, a senior at MIT and the lead MIT representative at the caucus. The panels offered several notable speakers, including the chief justice of the island’s Supreme Court, Federico Hernandez Denton ’66; the president of the University of Puerto Rico, Antonio Garcia Padilla; and Ascherman Professor...
...Ground Truth shows that many others have come back dented or crushed. At the beginning of the film we see them testifying in closeup; later the camera pans back, and too many of them are missing a hand or a leg. "Just the other day," Army veteran Robert Acosta recalls, "this guy asked me, how did I lose my hand? And I told him I lost it in the war. And he said, ?What war?? And I said the war in Iraq. And he said, ?That?s still goin? on?? And I said, ?Yeah, dude, it?s still goin...
...editor Patsy Nakell, who will study the early 20th century history of American policy in the region, and Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer from Germany, who will study culture, history, and gender issues in the Middle East. Other fellows will focus on American immigration issues, such as Gina Acosta from The Washington Post, who will study the fiscal results of U.S. immigration policy, and Claudio Sanchez, national education correspondent for National Public Radio, who will investigate why educational policies fail to equip both legal and illegal Mexican immigrant children with the skills needed for success. Two fellows from Africa...
...dancers come from all across the Spanish-speaking world: from Argentina, Venezuela, Spain, and, above all, from Cuba, in a contingent that ranges from the veteran Carlos Acosta of the Royal Ballet down to newcomer Sarabia (who is considering a stack of offers while staying in Pompano Beach, Fla., with a former teacher, also a defector). Three other standouts...