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...style scale. A competitor receives zero to six points in three different categories: technical merit, stage presence, and—most important—“airness.” “The formal definition of airness,” explains Jung, “is the extent to which the performance transcends the act of imitation and becomes a form of artistic expression unto itself.” Though it is easy to spot “airness” when it is displayed, the quality is not at all easy to attain, and many lesser...
...maximum penalty, 20 years, while a Scorpion who had confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased were from Srebrenica or were victims of the genocide...
...Architecture Jeffrey F. Hamburger offered an amendment to expand the proposed subject heading “Culture and Belief” to specifically include “History.” Quite reasonably, Hamburger characterized history as a universal academic category, “to the extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category,” and doubted that “culture and belief” could be rendered intelligible without “the historical traditions that inform them...
...Harvard, in the Freshman Musical. I haven’t been able to be as involved in college though as I have been in the past. I had to quit the Callbacks in order to do this.Departure from that a capella singing group was difficult for Jones, considering the extent of her dedication. Though she was excited at the opportunity to direct “Fabulation,” she says that her decision to leave the group was not an obvious or easy one to make.Was it hard to leave? Well, yes and no [laugh]. I think I made...
...example, the extent to which students felt their Houses supported their intellectual development differed significantly among Houses, prompting an extensive discussion at the meeting about this issue...