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...terrorism. Right now there is nothing more important on the economic agenda than securing a new round of measures to reduce trade barriers. Trade ministers have just met in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar, to work out the outlines of such a round. They need to move fast: the World Trade Organization estimates that in 2001 the growth in the volume of world trade in goods will be just 2%, compared with...
...battle between the instruments.The second movement, “Andante con moto,” was much more peaceful than the first. It featured less abrupt crescendos and an underlying staccato rhythm that acted as a steady pulse that allowed for an easy transition into the third movement.After a fast-paced repetition of the opening theme, the beat from the second movement reappeared and escalated into a triumphant sound in the combined third and fourth movements, “Allegro.” The entire orchestra united into one common, uplifting sound that appropriately led into a grand and united...
...Regardless of such imbalances, the company as a whole gave a very strong, clean performance of this canonical ballet. Most impressively, six young Boston Ballet School students performed alongside the corps in the wedding scene, maintaining unison in a fast-paced routine...
...Since 2003, Ogilvy PR, an international firm which also works for Disney and Slim-Fast, has been paid by the government to hold fake press conferences and broadcast live to a Virtual News Network (VNN), a closed-circuit satellite TV network modeled after CNN. Only people involved in the exercise can watch VNN or access its web site. The real media are only allowed to watch from afar...
...many years. But Lumet doesn't give us a lot of time for philosophical musings. This is the 83-year-old director's 45th film, and like all the best of them (Serpico, Prince of the City, The Verdict) he just keeps driving his story along. Notoriously a fast director - the kind of guy who prefers getting things right on the first take - he is also, somewhat paradoxically, well known as an actor's director, which he surely is here. None of his performers have ever been better. Whatever impulse they might have to indicate that they might merely...