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...some of his 12-year-old daughter Teresa's afterschool volleyball games, though he still manages to take the kids to their classes at the Ukrainian cultural center on Saturdays. (The family speaks Ukrainian at home.) Sosenko has always been a bit moody. His office is littered with Tasmanian-devil toys given to him by his family, an inside joke alluding to his occasional temper. But nowadays he is regularly depressed and irritable. "Alex takes everything to heart," says his wife Maria, 46, a rheumatologist (whose malpractice premiums nearly doubled this year, from...
...energy production. In 1904 the first experiment ever in steam-powered electricity was conducted in Larderello, when five light bulbs were lit by a dynamo propelled by geothermal liquid. Nine years later, the first steam-generated power plant was built in this area - once known as Valle del Diavolo (Devil's Valley) for the boiling liquid that bubbled out of the ground. But this swath of central Tuscany is not bathing in nostalgia. It continues to produce 10% of the world's geothermal power - about 4.8 billion kW-h per year - while one-quarter of the entire Tuscan region...
...have lots of people screaming at each other, and you can't understand what they're saying. And just like in opera, the stories are very extreme." In the opera, Springer (Michael Brandon) must deal with diaper fetishists, tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members and finally even the devil himself. Reviewers have gushed, the show's run has been extended into August, and producers are already sniffing around, looking to move it to the West End--maybe even to Broadway. The real Springer's reaction? "I only wish I'd thought of it first." --By James Inverne
...first recorded mention of a Harvard student artist was probably in 1652, when a few Harvard boys spent their Sunday afternoon performing a play. Their shenanigans were rewarded with disciplinary action—they had shamelessly been “impersonating the devil on a Sunday.” It’s a story that former OFA Director Myra Mayman finds particularly apt. “The first mention I could find of anything having to do with the arts…was bad behavior that could be punished,” she says. “Anything after...
...have to love Gatsby,” he says with the authority only a prefrosh can muster. “Everyone loves Gatsby.” At the other end of the table, Leila brazenly announces that she doesn’t love Gatsby. As Matt jokingly makes the devil-sign at her, Leila expounds on what she does love: Bluebell brand ice cream. ‘Berg’s stacks up O.K., but, “You know, I’m just really partial to Bluebell.” As yet another smitten girl approaches Matt with...