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Enter the Zingaro Theater in Aubervilliers, just north of Paris, and you step into another place and time. An Elizabethan-style theater-in-the-round spreads[an error occurred while processing this directive] before you beneath a soaring beamed ceiling. As the show opens on the circle of earth below, a gypsy troupe sleeps as their horses gather around a waterfall. It is the morning of a great wedding feast. Bartabas, who co-founded the equestrian theater Zingaro (Italian for gypsy) in 1984, has a new show, Battuta (beat or rhythm in Romany), which also features bears, geese, dogs...
...invented those toys would do better to focus on inventing things that are new and fresh every time we use them, and stimulate our own imagination and creativity to do good. Our leaders should use brilliant inventions to stop the death, destruction and famine that have gripped the earth since time began. Robert Pacult Warsaw
...former colleagues say they remember hearing Laura J. Garwin ’77 practicing the trumpet in the office late at night. Garwin, a former Rhodes scholar who earned a degree in Geology from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Cambridge, says she has played the trumpet since she was eight years old. But her music always took second place to her career...
...Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. This increasing support from both inside and outside the University further underscores the need for Harvard to address these issues...
...typical Democratic message - more spending on heath care and education, energy independence and an emphasis on improving relations with other countries, often in words that differ little from what John Kerry said in 2004. ("How can it be that we Americans spend more money than any nation on earth [on health care] and yet we still have 46 million uninsured?") But his emphasis is on weaving in his own personal story - the son of Kenyan father and mother from Kansas who rose to be a U.S. Senator - and other stories of people who overcame long odds. He noted...