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...millennium. Tan Dun's alchemic mixture of influences might produce an opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor of Hero and House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower and duplicate it, expand and perfect it, on the giant stage. Might we also have some swordplay and wire work...
...started his second week on the job, I asked him how things were going, especially with George W. Bush, someone else who has all but ignored him. That's when I saw the reflexes Reid developed 50 years ago, when he was going rounds in Las Vegas as a Golden Gloves middleweight. "I want to get along ..." he began, but he suddenly seemed at a loss for words. He slumped in his chair, buried his fist in his cheek and tapped his foot for a few awkward seconds. Then Reid let one fly: "He has 24 months left...
...This should be a golden time for Bangladesh. The country's economy galloped along at almost 7% last year, driven by strong growth in foreign investment and exports and a resurgent agricultural sector. Three months ago, Bangladesh's most famous son, Mohamed Yunus, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work developing microcredit banking, a concept that has changed the lives of millions. Even the country's perennially underperforming cricket team has improved of late. Instead, the south Asian nation of 145 million people is lurching towards chaos again...
Blanchett: I did at my first one, when I realized I had this 45-minute press line to walk. The first time I went to the Golden Globes, I literally walked all the way up because no one stopped me, and went, "This is easy!" And then someone said, "No, you've got to come back...
...year, Federer is flesh and blood, prone to the odd burst of mishits and tension-induced mistakes. A slight injury, a blazing hot day, a rotten night's sleep - any number of little distractions could level the playing field for a strong opponent, who might also just have a golden night like Russia's Marat Safin did in his semi-final against the Swiss in 2005. Federer's the percentage tip, but he's not unbeatable...