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...that has produced such legends as Abba and was won, last year, by a Finnish rock band in monster costumes, then few needed it as much as the Serbs did. Days before Saturday's Eurovision finals, the country almost plunged back into bad old days, as the Serbian parliament chose as its Speaker the ultranationalist Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic. Nikolic, a former vice-premier in the government of Slobodan Milosevic, caused an outrage when he vowed to cut Serbia's ties with the West and eventually merge the country with Russia - not an easy task, considering that the countries...
...traditionally puts on one full-scale production. Its latest work, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s “The Fantasticks,” is largely a paint-by-numbers show. Directors Laura S. Hirschberg ’09 and Sean P. Bala ’09 chose to stage the play as it has usually been performed since its off-Broadway opening in 1960, striving for the same wistful tone and minimal set that straddle the boundary between the homemade and the “fantastical.” The show, which was produced by Rory...
...Nationale. "Carrying his heavy and outmoded equipment on his back, casually and poorly dressed, he became himself a picturesque figure," write curators Sylvie Aubenas and Guillaume Le Gall in the show's sumptuous catalogue. Indeed, during World War I some passersby suspected Atget of being a spy, and he chose to lie low for a while...
...last one is generally, no.) Gates tells kids that her own mother never went to college and regretted it. "My sister and I were the first women in our family to go to college," she says. "It was difficult for my parents to pay for it." She says she chose Duke University because it had a strong program in computers. "My husband," she reveals, "is finally getting his degree from Harvard after dropping out, which I do not recommend...
...first round of voting, the French chose mainstream candidates whose parties could actually enact legislation in the Assemblée nationale; fringe right and left candidates garnered especially low percentages—10 candidates managed merely a combined 24 percent. Tellingly, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right candidate of the Front National who made it to the second round in 2002, received the smallest share of votes he has received in any presidential election since...