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...assuredly modern - not by strident atonalism, but rather through the fertile mixing of jazz, opera, rock and electronica, punctuated by moving, ethereal intermezzos by onstage jazz instrumentalists improvising over the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. While Le Monde had little appetite for this musical "soup", the Journal de Dimanche was eager for more. "In the breach between rock-pop and opera, [Nieve] invented something new," said the paper's critic. "Despite its faults, this innovation, far superior to all the musical comedies in the works, deserves to be saluted...
...defense also called upon Grace Rwaramba, nanny to Jackson's three children, to demonstrate that the sheik was a generous benefactor who was eager to lavish Jacko with gifts...
...their homeland's responsibility to engage with - and help - the rest of the world. Peace Winds founder Onishi is just one of a growing group of Japanese who have founded their own international NGOs. Instead of being automatically vacuumed up by domestic firms, many top university graduates are eager to work abroad. The number of Japanese who studied at foreign universities tripled from 1990 to 2004, to 82,925 students...
...Those back home are eager to learn about the world, too. Onishi recalls how he signed on as a guest lecturer at two top Tokyo universities and wondered whether anyone would show up to hear about remote corners of the earth. Both courses ended up being oversubscribed, with some eager students forced to stand through the lectures. Another telling barometer is the number of Japanese specialist personnel working for the United Nations, which has increased to nearly 700 today from less than 500 seven years ago. "Among the Japanese public," says co-editor Watanabe, "there's a sense that since...
Doug Morrell had already installed solar panels on his house in Coopersville, Mich., but he was eager to get a little bit greener. So the 52-year-old Navy veteran bought something that might seem more at home in the Dutch countryside than in a small town in western Michigan: a personal wind turbine. The 33-ft.-high (10 m) machine, whose blades span 7 ft. (2 m) in diameter, sits next to the pole barn 100 yd. (90 m) from Morrell's home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills...