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...sense, but also an assertion of the Americans’ right to do as they pleased in a conquered country.” One can forgive certain inklings of ressentiment.“The Mikado” is certainly not alone in terms of context-specific variance. Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” met with diverse reactions between Eastern and Western audiences—while wildly successful at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907, it met with some confusion by Japanese audiences, who sometimes did not know what to make of Western tonalities. Rodger...
...question is one few researchers would have thought of asking a decade ago. But that was before University of Parma neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues began publishing the eyebrow-raising results of experiments they had been conducting with macaques. The Italian scientists were monitoring the monkeys' brain activity--observing how neurons in the premotor cortex buzzed with activity as the animals grasped a piece of food--when something strange kept happening. The monkeys would be sitting still, doing nothing in particular, and one of the researchers would pick up some raisins or sunflower seeds in order to place them...
...Mary Corliss and I joined the corps of Confetti Dispersal Engineers on New Year's Eve, as we had once before, on the so-called millennium of 1999-2000. We joined our chers amis Davie Lerner, Giacomo Ghiozzi, Victor Nelson and Gilbert Ireland, all CDEs of many consecutive years' standing. None of us had to blow up the 20,000 balloons due to be given out to the crowd; that task went to other people with more capacious lung power ... no, actually they use pumps. But we were on duty for nearly eight hours, as the elves in Father Time...
...deep swimming pool full of water and caustic chemicals. As the plot thickens, a cast of crooked art dealers, shady collectors and formidable art institutions are implicated in an investigation that steers Italy's Art Squad to a Geneva warehouse filled with looted national treasures. The warehouse's owner? Giacomo Medici, Italy's most nefarious art dealer. With one of the book's main players, Marion True, the J. Paul Getty Museum's former antiquities curator, on trial for conspiring to purchase stolen antiquities, and Medici challenging a 1995 Rome conviction that sentenced him to 10 years in prison, even...
...freshmen] have given us a lot of energy and brightened up our offense,” Kerr said. HARVARD 3, MAINE 1Fucito provided the opening salvo midway through the first half with a blast from the edge of the penalty box that beat Maine (0-5) goalie Giacomo Brunino, and the Crimson rolled from there to its second straight 3-1 decision.Freshman Adam Rousmaniere added a second first-half goal to give Harvard the cushion it needed as play tightened considerably in the second half. In the latter frame, Hahn—who is entrenched at starting goalie...