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...would-be revolutionary who sells Marxist pamphlets at the local market. Memo's relentless denigration of Carla's first-world background tugs on a string of middle-class guilt and self-loathing tied around Carla's soul. Yearning for the "authentic" Mexican experience, Carla eventually ends up in a flat she shares with her new Mexican boyfriend Oscar, who dreams of becoming a DJ in America, but settles for selling pot and T-shirts to tourists. Eventually his underworld connections lead to a strange, international incident that precipitates Carla's return home...
...congressional uproar leaves Dubai's bosses feeling burned by a double standard, one that promotes globalization only when it is within the U.S.'s comfort zone. "The media is saying 'The world is flat', but when it comes to Arabs there are a lot of barriers," says a Dubai official. "People are thinking about the clash of civilizations. It's important for the world to see us working together." Sheika Lubna al-Qasimi, Dubai's Minister of Economy and Planning, predicts that the bottom line will win out after the review. "At the end of the day, this is about...
...full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony was the low point. It is complex and intellectually demanding music which requires sensitive leadership and a fully engaged orchestra. Yet Fujimoto’s on-stage relationship with her players rarely moved beyond metronomic. The sound was fractured and flat, the structure confused, and some of Mozart’s most fascinating music sounded little more than boring. The group of soloists all played admirably. Kathryn E. Andersen ’07 and Brendan J. Gillis ’06, soloing in the “Sinfonia concertante for violin...
...goal of the program was to challenge for the Ivy title every three years, then Sullivan has ultimately failed, making a run at it just once (1997) and falling flat thrice (2001, 2003, and 2006). But if the goal is merely to be one of the best non-Ps, year in and year out, he has succeeded on a relatively consistent basis...
...Speaking in a flat, weary drone, Wayne Gretzky used the word "devastation" at least seven times in his post-game news conference, as though he was talking about the aftermath of a forest fire. "The pressure of representing this country in hockey in any international competition is extremely high," said Gretzky, Team Canada's executive director. "There are no words to describe how devastating a loss like this...