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Undergraduates who wish to participate must complete applications and submit them to a committee of seasoned professional dancers who select aspiring choreographers on the basis of their ideas and previous work. Undergraduate participants then craft their pieces with professional mentors throughout the fall and into the spring semester. DV III is the newest incarnation of showcase for this work...
...There is a group of people ready to craft a more forceful demand,” Palmer said. “There is plenty of support for the idea of taking further steps, but many faculty members need to work together to find formulations [that will] generate support the majority...
There were 22 people in my particular LCA [landing craft, artillery]. We were under fire as we neared the beach. When the ramp of the LCA went down, I was the first one to step out. As I was getting off, I was shot in my side, but the bullet only went through muscle--it didn't hit any joints--so I was able to keep going. When you're a leader, you've got to see to it that everything gets done. As long as you can stand up, you keep going. After getting shot, I stepped...
Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety--and decided to launch it anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what in the rocket business are called safety waivers--problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate--every launch is going to have them--but others...
...Brazil's all-time box-office champs, with more than $15 million taken so far worldwide. This isn't the first golden age of Latin American film. In the '40s and '50s, Mexico's cinema was so well regarded that Europeans like Buñuel learned to hone their craft there. In the '60s, Brazil's Cinema Novo rivaled the French and Italian new waves, and Chile's Ra?l Ruiz (now self-exiled in Paris) has long had a substantial European following. But starting in the '70s, Latin cinema's funding, talent and audience got sucked away by telenovelas...