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...subsume her identity to her husband's political ambitions. Her critics - and there have been many - accuse her of endangering the electoral chances of the left-leaning party she's championed all her life. Nope, not Hillary Clinton. The target of these barbs is Clinton's one-time counterpart from across the Atlantic, Cherie Blair: wife of Tony, mother of four, human rights lawyer, and, it now emerges, astonishingly frank autobiographer. Her book, Speaking for Myself, appears on May 15. Perceptions of life behind the shiny black door of 10 Downing Street will never be the same...
Brian Cowen's first full day as Ireland's new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) this week found him on the hoof - lunching with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, and donning a tux to schmooze U.S. investors at a grand Georgian mansion on the outskirts of Belfast. It was an elegant turn that belied Cowen's long-standing nickname: Biffo...
...Hill ’08, who plays the title role. “The challenge for me and for anyone in the part is to round out the part and make him an understandable person.” Todd was not the only character who needed fleshing out; his counterpart, Mrs. Lovett, did as well. “Playing with the idea that she is madly in love with Sweeney Todd was so important for me when I started looking at these scenes,” says Rachel E. Flynn ’09, who plays the piemaker...
...role in their senior campaign. Also at the banquet, senior co-captain Mike Taylor received the John Tudor Memorial Cup, an honor bestowed to the team’s most valuable player. Taylor led the Crimson offense with 35 points, including 12 goals in his senior campaign. His counterpart, David MacDonald, received the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland Award for devotion to the game, along with fellow senior Tyler Magura. Sophomore Ian Tallett received the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy, awarded to the team’s most improved player, while Michael Biega and Matt McCollem earned...
...traditions, showing parallel shots of a priest gesturing with a prayer staff and a symphony conductor waving a baton. The priest, backlit by torchlight flickering through plumes of smoke, held the maqwammiya like a microphone as he chanted.But Astatke resists the temptation to blindly search for an Ethiopian counterpart to every European tradition. Although some first-generation immigrants may accuse him of polluting Ethiopian culture, Astatke deliberately avoids isolating the Ethiopian elements as museum pieces, frozen in their “purest” state and viewed through a glass barrier. The bulk of his contribution lies in his skill...