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Regret has always been the one thing I’ve tried to avoid most, and that feeling of uncertainty dawned on me once again. A year later than expected, I was essentially back to square one. At a crossroads and forced to choose a path, I was afraid of making the wrong decision...
...performers, then, the challenge of crafting a concert of canonical anchors like the Beethoven symphonies is to avoid easy recourse to the habit of flawless dignity. Consummate artistry involves not only the meaningful realization of a composition, but the further ability to destroy and then resurrect its grandeur—to connect with the inner greatness of the work while stripping away the pomp that surrounds it. The goal is for the audience to like it not because they are supposed to, but because they can’t help...
...avoid financial pitfalls, Zimbler hopes to apply for fellowships and grants from Harvard that will allow her to pursue a documentary about children and sports after graduation. “I’ve been thinking about going to China, to [the] Ukraine, to different places in Russia. I seem,” she said with a smile, “to have this fever about filming abroad.” Between the obvious costs of travel and permits, and Zimbler’s affinity for more expensive recording material—her thesis, “Dear George?...
...wall outside every school in the country. The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32 school days in the period, and every meal includes an hors d'oeuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...just this point in our conversation, the McDonald's p.r. executive who was with us - an elegant British woman named Danya Proud - coughed rather loudly. Coudreaut trailed off. R&D is secret at every company. (See nine kid foods to avoid...