Word: dragone
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...acoustics of the venue. The band began the set with a progression of older songs, to the warm response of an audience understandably acquainted more with recent hit singles. Both parties seemed much more comfortable once the band brooded into the well-delivered “The Beast and Dragon Adored,” the opening song on “Fiction” and a prime example of the band’s tense build-up and singer Britt Daniel’s dynamic range and suppressed lyrical sensuality. The audience didn’t have to wait...
...cast is a roster of A-list Asian actors. Ziyi Zhang, of the worldwide kung fu hits Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, plays Sayuri. Gong Li, mainland China's first international star, is Hatsumomo. Michelle Yeoh, another Crouching Tiger eminence, who was also a Bond girl (Tomorrow Never Dies), is Mameha. And Ken Watanabe, the Oscar-nominated warrior of The Last Samurai, is the Chairman...
...details (anti-Semitism, fanatical nationalism, anger and economic privation among the people) to Hitler's rise in the 1930s. When incoming CIA Director James Woolsey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last February, he described the realities of the new world order: ''We have slain a large dragon, but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.'' For years the conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa have amounted to terrible local dragons in their own right, with histories of deep hatred and the potential to erupt into wider violence -- even...
...dragon on his bedroom wall was not the strangest thing Greg M. Schmidt ’06 found in his new apartment this summer. Waking up for the first time in his summer sublet, Schmidt—the current president of the Harvard Democrats—discovered, in his own words, “a little shrine to our 43rd President...
Harvard’s disputes occasionally have escalated to the courts. In Jan. 2003, Harvard moved to terminate Templeton Asset Management as the investment manager for two closed-end funds, the China World Fund and the Dragon Fund. Templeton sued Harvard, accusing it of “strong-arm investment tactics...