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...company recently called "one of the largest merger-and-acquisition scandals in U.S. history." MySpace might be worth more than $3 billion today. YouTube gained first-mover advantage with its video-sharing service. But the latest crop of Web 2.0 outfits employs varying strategies to cut past the crowd...
...fresh, sunny Saturday in Rockford, Ill., and nearly a thousand people have gathered in the gymnasium at Rock Valley College to participate in a town meeting with their Senator, Barack Obama. It is an astonishingly large crowd for a beautiful Saturday morning, but Obama--whose new book, The Audacity of Hope, is excerpted starting on page 52--has become an American political phenomenon in what seems about a nanosecond, and the folks are giddy with anticipation. "We know he's got the charisma," says Bertha McEwing, who has lived in Rockford for more than 50 years. "We want to know...
...they don't have to consider the other side of the debate, which has made compromise--and therefore legislative progress--more difficult. "That's why I favored Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last year, a nonpartisan commission to draw the congressional-district maps in California. Too bad it lost." The crowd is keeping up with Obama, listening closely as he segues into a detailed discussion of the federal budget. Eventually, he realizes he has been filibustering and apologizes to the crowd for "making a speech." No one seems to care, since Obama is doing something pretty rare in latter-day American...
...stage was lit minimally to create a focused environment. Bernstein’s three children took the stage to offer some words about their father and the music in the show. Unfortunately, the trio often resorted to campy shtick and poorly written jokes to try to loosen up the crowd, instead of giving a real impression of what it was like to be Bernstein’s child. By the time the three were listing off the projects they had each undertaken to continue their father’s legacy, the audience was ready to hear the next musical selection.After...
...Bernstein arrangement of the well-known Gershwin piece “Rhapsody In Blue,” which Bernstein is said to have written for a band at the summer camp where he worked. Hearing the familiar themes of the piece on completely different instruments drew laughter from the crowd, but the performance, grounded by Bartosik on piano and Giancarlo Garcia ‘08 on clarinet, was actually quite good. The evening ended with Bernstein’s “Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano,” with Jennifer D. Chang...