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...personal way.The Pakistan earthquake, however, did not receive such exceptional treatment, leading some students to question why one catastrophe deserved special philanthropic measures and the other did not. The disaster in Pakistan killed over 80,000 people and left an estimated 3.5 million survivors homeless—numbers that dwarf those that Katrina left devastated in its wake. The moral conundrum as to when to step beyond the bounds of pedagogy and into the realm of philanthropy is undeniably murky, and we recognize that there is no clear test as to when to spearhead relief efforts or other charitable causes.Given...
...first place. “‘[Slavs!]’ not only provided opportunities for larger-than-life artistic choices, it required them,” says Spillane-Hinks. “A student director working on the Mainstage runs a risk that the vast space will dwarf actors. I knew that this show would push us towards staging and design strategies that would fight against that danger.” Yet in spite of all its philosophical and visual grandeur, Spillane-Hinks insists that the HRDC production of “Slavs!” is intimate...
...wrong hands, a big ensemble like this can be deadly, but Martin is a tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting plotter and a deft and inexhaustible sketcher of personalities--including Tyrion Lannister, a bitter, cynical, high-born dwarf (he's Martin's Falstaff) and Brienne the Beauty, a huge, unmarriageable, monstrously ugly woman who fights in full armor and usually wins. Martin has an astonishing ability to focus on epic sweep and tiny, touching human drama simultaneously. The supernatural plays a role, but only rarely...
...Although drilling in ANWR would have a larger impact than Walters' conservation campaign-the U.S. Geological Service believes that the total amount of economically recoverable oil in ANWR is 3.2 billion barrels, or 134 billion gallons-, it's a start toward fuel-consumption savings that could dwarf the capacity of the Arctic range. Increasing the efficiency of U.S. cars, SUVs and light trucks by four miles per gallon, for example, is said to be equivalent to developing an oil field 10 times the size of ANWR-without the negative environmental impact...
Thousands stayed behind in the city or relied on strained rescue and relief efforts, many of them condemned by their poverty to ride out the storm and its aftermath or simply wary of a lifetime of boy-who-cried-wolf predictions. New Orleans' poverty and crime levels dwarf those of the rest of the nation, with a staggering percentage of black males seeing the inside of prisons during their lifetimes...