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...solve. Meanwhile, in the restive south, Muslim insurgents have ramped up their murderous campaign; on Monday, three Buddhists were gunned down. Thaksin says that if he were to eventually return home, he could help heal the nation. "If you want to have national reconciliation, it's like clapping hands," says Thaksin. "If you try to clap with one hand, and take another hand far away, is it possible? You have to bring that hand back. I have quit politics, don't worry, but I want to help with reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting a Giant Shadow | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...orchestra, especially through the marimba and xylophone. The inclusion of such familiar holiday tunes, along with a rendition of “Wipeout,” allowed the audience to better connect with the performance. In “Samba” the audience was given a beat to clap along with while the song was played, allowing the audience to become more engaged with the show. The balance of popular pieces, and more obscure and new works was great, giving viewers something new as well as something known.“Cups,” a THUD original production...

Author: By Kimberly D. Williams, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THUD Bangs Out Popular Rhythms | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft this song in a way that the person who's tone-deaf and can't clap on two and four can sing it?" says the songwriter. "I hope that when someone hears a CD of mine, they pick up their guitar and say, 'O.K., I can do that.'" Which is not the way people react to, say, Handel's Messiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip Hymns Are Him | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...loaded the software and started adding sensors and claws, things got dicey. And when I started programming, things got downright horrific. After several hours of frustration, I began to discover the rudiments of how to use virtual blocks of instruction to get the robot to move, respond to a clap, back up when it hit a wall. I finally got my little monster to pirouette, wave its lobster claws and shout "Lego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Lego Gets a New Brain | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...says Nagy. “If I had known, I would have practiced my speech 20 times instead of 2, and I made my speech in Greek!” Luckily, the speech was well received. Says Nagy: “If they had a machine called the clap-o-meter, I would have gotten a very high score.” And about that prize money. Instead of going straight to his pocket, the $200,000 will go to Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., which Nagy directs. Even if he doesn?...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gregory Nagy: Hero, Not Zero | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

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