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...hearing enhanced. Ed Smith, managing director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, says that what makes Dudamel extraordinary is his ability to conduct in two directions, communicating with musicians and with the audience. This requires an athlete's physicality. A fit young man, Dudamel has already begun to adopt the posture of his first conducting teacher, José Antonio Abreu, who at 68 is almost hunchbacked from years of pouring himself forward into the orchestra. During delicate passages for the winds, Dudamel reaches his hands into the orchestra as if picking low-hanging fruit; in more violent ones, he attempts...
America, like Europe, will eventually adopt more private roads and tolls. But the U.S. needs to adopt a new mindset as well. Infrastructure is a matter of homeland security, a concept that Dwight Eisenhower understood when he started the federal highway system during the cold war. The healthier a locale is before a disaster (or terrorist attack), the healthier it will be afterward. As we learned the hard way in New Orleans, the opposite is also true. But if we invest in strong levees, roads and rails, then even inevitable calamities will have fewer consequences. We will be able...
Martin said that better mentoring of women and minority faculty members can also be addressed immediately. She said she has pushed departments to adopt formal mentoring programs to better serve tenure-track faculty members seeking advice form outside their department...
...States, and then put it all over schools, television, and, yes, subways. I’m sure that with our superior wit, determination, and punning abilities, we can far surpass every other country once we put our minds to it. And if not, we can always adopt the German approach, but substitute our own slogans, our own condoms, and our own vegetables. American potatoes are sexier anyway...
...Friday prayers-has simmered and boiled ever since Thailand, then known as Siam, annexed the Pattani sultanate a century ago. In the 1960s, the separatist Barisan Revolusi Nasional (National Revolutionary Front, or B.R.N.) was formed by a religious teacher after the state tried to force Islamic boarding schools to adopt the national curriculum. B.R.N. and other insurgent groups were neutralized by government amnesties by the 1990s, but their cause has been taken up by a new breed of militant, groomed by religious leaders and hardened by the military solution Thaksin pushed in the south. (The most vivid symbol of Thaksin...