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...licenses shows for all secondary productions, including schools. "It's about the entire school. It's about the kids involved doing the advertising, the marketing, the tech work, the costume work. And that extends out to the community, because they reach out to parents who also support in helping build stuff." Indeed, in sharp contrast to the cost-conscious commercial theater, high school directors seek out shows with the biggest casts possible. "You want as many opportunities for as many kids as you can have," says Christine Travalino, theater director at Pittsburgh Perry High School, which put on Urinetown this...
Like many of their neighbors, the Kovals have invested all they had in their house. They sold their apartments in the city of Rostov, borrowed money at a steep rate and invested seven years of hard labor to build the place. "In other countries, they pump oil," says the Kovals' neighbor, Sarkis Inechkyan, 60. "We make our living by letting rooms to vacationers." Their worst fears were realized in early April, when Russia's then Prime Minister Victor Zubkov told a Cabinet meeting that the state would need some 1,700 acres (700 hectares) to build more than 200 Olympic...
...reality for themselves make their criticisms, almost no scholar or policymaker from mainland China has ever had a chance to represent their view in the Western media. There is a great need for the Western media, the Chinese government and Chinese citizens to have constructive dialogues, so as to build a mutual understanding. After all, the West needs China as much as China needs the West. Zhong Guoren, SINGAPORE
...Africa and Asia, “focusing on the needs of the poor and ultra-poor,” according to Professor Ali S. A. Asani ’77, who studies Indo-Muslim cultures. While Princess Khan’s responsibilities at AKDN also include coordinating health and building services programs, her talk focused specifically on AKDN’s experience in operating more than 300 schools throughout Africa and Asia. She spoke about several case studies to provide insight into education in the developing world—including the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania...
This year, both Clinton and Obama released strong climate proposals that build on the cap-and-trade idea. But as McCain girded for primary battles against skeptics like Mitt Romney, he throttled back his leadership on the issue, missing every environmental vote of the year. Lieberman teamed up with Virginia Republican John Warner to produce a bill that is more detailed and ambitious than the ones Lieberman and McCain worked on. With the backing of California Democrat Barbara Boxer, the fierce, deep-green chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Lieberman and Warner added provisions to protect...