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...past year has been a momentous one for American-Jewish-Taiwanese singer Alisa Galper. After her win on the Taiwan talent show One Million Star (the island's answer to American Idol), she was quickly signed by Universal Music Taiwan, who immediately began touting her as "Asia's Rihanna." The comparison isn't too fanciful, and what she lacks in the Barbadian singer's rhythmic ease, she makes up for in range and diversity...
...Alisa has spent many months working on her eponymous, bilingual debut - and she definitely has a voice. Her first single, "Hound Dog," a cover of the early Elvis favorite, adds a throaty, R&B vibe to the song's rocking swagger. It's one part sweet and two parts sultry, giving the gender switch a sensual twist. Elsewhere, she shows a talent for duets, such as in the Mandarin ballad "Unexpected," counterpointing American-born Taiwan singer Will Pan's smooth tones in a manner that neither controls nor submits. (Asia's best bands...
...mentors, checking in with students by phone every couple of weeks to ensure they are making progress in their courses and to recommend additional resources. "I get to know each of my students much better than I did when I lectured to them once a week in class," says Alisa Izumi, a business professor at WGU who lives in Granby, Mass., and used to teach at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...effort with around three minutes to go in the first period. She picked off a Union pass inside the Dutchwomen’s zone, skated wide right around a defender, and pushed the puck past the Union keeper and into the goal. While Brine got the Crimson going, freshman Alisa Baumgartner scored next, with the first goal of her collegiate career midway through the second. She received a pass from sophomore Deborah Conway, circled behind the net, and fired a shot past the left shoulder of the Union netminder and into the back...
...towards building upon the success of last season in which the Beanpot, Ivy League, and ECAC titles all came to Cambridge.While all but four Crimson players are returning for the 2008-09 campaign, Harvard has been infused with new energy in the form of freshmen forwards Ling Ling Lok, Alisa Baumgartner, and Whitney Kennedy.“We have three new freshmen who are going to do a good job for us,” Harvard coach Katey Stone says. “They immersed themselves pretty quickly and all have different strengths and hopefully, they will...