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...Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper, and her mother (Angela Bassett), who works too many jobs to monitor her children, evoke these film cliches.Akeelah aptly transcends her familial circumstances by preparing for the spelling bee with the assistance of the renowned, though reclusive, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and the people living in her community. In fact, former bullies, neighborhood vagrants...
...progression of the story. The best moment was when the figures convened downstage left in a complexly interwoven and motive-driven formation. “Talisman” best utilized the intense musicality of its original score, composed by Inyang M. Akpan ’07 and graduate student Angela Liu GSE ’06. Choreographed and performed by Learning from Performers’ visiting artist Rachel A. Cohen ’95, the last number of Act I used props in such a way as to depart from any previously identified form of dance performance.Cohen forced...
Event co-chair Angela K. Antony ’08 said the event provided an opportunity for student leaders to form relationships that they can use to facilitate communication and collaborative efforts...
There's something different about Angela Merkel. Germans remain spellbound by the novelty of a female Chancellor, but it's her down-to-earth manner that really sets her apart. There isn't a politician in Europe today who would not be giddy with delight if they racked up the approval ratings Merkel has been scoring - 80% in February, the highest for any German Chancellor since World War II. But the former physics lecturer is not one to get carried away with fripperies like opinion polls. A participant at a recent meeting with business leaders in Berlin tells...
...reported on the difficulties that German women face when they try to combine career and family. We want our women to take part in the professional and cultural life of our society. The problem is that our government does very little to support working mothers. We hope that Angela Merkel, our first woman Chancellor, may be able to promote policies that bring mothers into the workforce. The combining of career and children has to be made possible in the nearest future. We have a strong will to integrate women in all parts of social life, but the government...