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...Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at independent think tank The Carnegie Moscow Center. "It looks like it wasn?t extremely successful, but it wasn't a failure." Referring to past E.U. conferences that have been held in remote Russian cities, he adds: "If anything, this was a continuation of E.U. field trips into Russia's deep countryside...
...leader of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New England String Ensemble—will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning...
...fact that we cut across socio-economic backgrounds, that we invited girls from public schools, from parochial schools, kids from private schools, and that they're all sitting around the table as equals in this place, where they all felt some level of intimidation, right, so the playing field was relatively equal, it was a beautiful night...
...with her staff and never any meetings before the girls go to school. She tells aides which days she wants to be "on"; she can concentrate all her public events into a couple of days a week, leaving her free to sit in a lawn chair at the soccer field watching the girls play. Then there are the parent-teacher conferences, the play, the birthday party, the calls with parents to discuss the sleepover. "Kids force you into a normalcy," she says, "that, you know, it even trumps this [place] in some ways...
...gore, car and dance sequences, what he really likes it to let people - meaning himself, as the screenwriter - talk. Inglourious Basterds is, after all, a war movie without a single scene on the front lines. No long tracking shots of soldiers crouching in foxholes or marching across an open field, aiming death at their enemies. Almost all the set pieces are conversations, or interrogations, usually involving Landa: with the French farmer (Denis Menochet), Shoshanna, Von Hammersmark and Raine. Some of these chats could use either punching up or scrupulous editing. In fact, on the basis of sheer entertainment value, this...