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...musicians' complaints about permits. "If you try hard, you'll get a permit. Give me another year and I'll produce a rap album," he says self-assuredly, adding that the reason rock and rap haven't been officially successful is because Iranians prefer pop music. "Iranians are instinctively drawn to emotionality in music," he says, leaning back in the executive armchair of his slick black-walled record company...
...have liked Po to make greater use of his noodle-shop skills in the climactic fight. And although Black's loud, friendly, shambling screen personality makes a smooth transference to panda form, I wish Po were more persuasively drawn; visually, he's the least interesting character. But the menagerie that surrounds him is a gorgeous one. And the movie's message - that strength and discipline can't be taught, but must be discovered within - has a wise heart that matches the movie's art. That's the secret ingredient for an animated feature. That and some sublime kung-furious panda...
...wooden barrel was worth twice as much as the oil it contained, according to Daniel Yergin's definitive tome on oil, The Prize. But as the oil boom took hold and the barrel size was set at 42 gal. (160 L), Pennsylvania's roads became clogged with horse-drawn wagons piled high with the containers, prompting construction of the first oil pipelines (made of wood) and leading 25-year-old John D. Rockefeller to form what became the Standard Oil Co. It would eventually control up to 90% of U.S. oil-refining until the company was broken...
...It’s a place where people are drawn together by passion as opposed to academic demands or by being forced to do things,” Kara E. Kaufman ’08—the former president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC)—said. “It’s all very student-driven.” Indeed, many alumni say they received a better theater education at Harvard than they would have with a theater major, according to Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts...
...Kaufman noted that the Loeb Mainstage, which seats over 500, has drawn audiences of 20 or less but was filled on the closing night of this spring’s “Sweeney Todd...