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...which case all her bullet-point plans will be of no avail. While no one doubts her intellectual gifts, there is a contrived quality about her that is no match for Obama's aura of authenticity. Obama has inspired people to believe they can effect positive change - no mean feat when many people tune out elections because they feel they have no voice in their government. Scott Willett, New York City...
...already amassed a substantial repertoire of accomplishments in the worlds as of both collegiate and professional soccer. An assistant to his father, Bobby Clark, for the past two years, he helped bring the Fighting Irish to the NCAA quarterfinals for the first time in school history, a feat the team repeated the following year. Also, Clark coached four players who were drafted by Major League Soccer—Greg Dalby and Nate Norman in 2007, and Ryan Miller and Joseph Lapira in 2008. Lapira also received the prestigious Hermann Trophy and was named the Soccer America Player of the Year...
...songs are performed using Andrew Porter’s English translations. Despite these concessions to a lay audience, the actors are talented and the production is polished and professional. Turning the Dunster House dining hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same...
...before a gorgeous painted backdrop of a forest. Throughout “The Divine Reality Comedy,” the company made excellent use of exquisite two-dimensional cut-outs of clouds, stars and faces. Puppetry and design is clearly the group’s forte. A particularly impressive feat of costuming surfaced when the ensemble donned security cameras for heads, in what was stylistically unique yet contrived commentary on post-Patriot Act surveillance. But the impact of this too was lessened when one of the cast members, winding through the first row of seats, chose to make the notes...
...likely to put them back to work than Labor was. Indeed, surveys taken shortly before the election indicated that an astonishing one out of three unemployed Britons planned to vote Tory. Many workers greatly appreciated her feat in bringing the inflation rate down from a high of 22% in 1980 to the current 4%. In addition, Britain's generous array of unemployment benefits, which Thatcher has left largely intact, has blunted the anger of many without jobs...