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...different play every week," he says. "I became aware of a pattern that was evolving - we would do a comedy, then a thriller and then a serious play. With the comedy, all the lights came up to full. And everyone was very, very loud and terribly fast. And in the serious plays, it was positively dark, and everyone was talking very quietly. And I thought, I'd love to write a very, very slow comedy, with none of the lights on. And then I'd write a very bright tragedy, with lots of lights...
...something to someone, doing something positive here and there, and they’re all doing it,” Leone said. “They’ve all five giving leadership in their own ways.” Rhodes is quick to attribute the victory to the fast learning curve of the still-developing team.“We have a lot of players on this team that can contribute,” she said. “We’ve gotten a lot of players in now in these types of tight situations...
...That trip was a spiritual, emotional, and physical death for many of its passengers, and its goal was to sever Africans’ ties with their former lives and render them vulnerable at the hands of Europeans. Now, the journey could not be more different: it is easy, fast, and completely voluntary. Only several accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspectives of the enslaved exist because of illiteracy and imprisonment With this dearth of information, it is easy to see how such a “culture of silence”—whatever its origin?...
...claims is its goal. Payout rates have become a hotly debated issue in higher education in the last year as Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began attacking what he saw as “hoarding” among schools with large and fast-growing endowments. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, floated the possibility of mandating a minimum five-percent payout rate for higher education endowments, similar to the current standards for foundations and other charities that receive tax-exemptions. Harvard sets five percent as its payout goal, but it has exceeded that mark only...
...hasn't started yet, but Galveston is starting to take on water. I worked on the island as a reporter for the Galveston County Daily News in the mid-1990s, and I recognize a lot of the places they're showing on TV. It's hard to believe how fast the water is rising. The waves already have started crashing over the seawall. They closed it a few minutes...