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...familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a consolation drink. But which side deserves sympathy more, the jobless or the still employed? On March 6, researchers at a conference at the University of Cambridge heard data suggesting it's the latter: compared with people who are straight-up laid off, those who keep their job but are under a constant threat of losing it suffer a greater decline in mental well-being...
...never-ending series of musical twists.The muted sounds of the strings characterizing the andante cantabile movement suggested an intimacy with the music the BSO had not previously unveiled. Levine tapered off long melodic lines with taste, and the caress of the two-note slurs were particularly sensuous. A familiar four-note motif announced the opening of the finale movement of the “Jupiter,” and Levine led the orchestra through the movement’s polyphonic glory to the triumphant end. With every voice, with every introduction of a theme, the BSO fueled the finale?...
...being—in Wong’s words—“exclusive and relatively confined” is perhaps a result of specific students putting in extraordinary time and effort to appear in not one, but multiple shows each semester. Moreover, these supposedly too familiar faces of Harvard’s theater begin as newcomers and continue to endure rejections and disappointments every year. Such students should be commended for passionately pursuing their craft, not used as targets for unwarranted criticism...
...Sunday's suicide attack by a bomber wearing an explosives belt and driving an explosives-laden motorcycle killed at least 28 people and wounded at least 57. ?It was directed at a familiar target - recruits at the Police Academy in central Baghdad, the same facility that was attacked Dec. 1 in a double bombing that killed 15 and wounded almost 50. (See photos of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...
...this one conducted by Bruce Riedel, a scholar at the Brookings Institution. The Riedel review won't be done until the end of March, but it has already achieved some clarity about U.S. goals and priorities: "Afghanistan pales in comparison to the problems in Pakistan," said an official familiar with Riedel's thinking. "Our primary goal has to be to shut down the al-Qaeda and Taliban safe havens on the Pakistan side of the border. If that can be accomplished, then the insurgency in Afghanistan becomes manageable...