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...fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame now seems impossibly frail, but in their time, vehicles like this prompted the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to exult that racing cars were more "beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace...
...good idea - Santa Catarina is a meandering mix of lush valleys, vibrant beach life and gentle fishing villages where the legacy of early pioneers lives on. From tiny Azorean settlements like the village at Armação with its colonial-style chapel, to the grand timber-framed Germanic architecture of Blumenau (home to one of the world's biggest Oktoberfests outside Munich), the atmosphere here couldn't differ more from northern Brazil, which is influenced by the black population and elements of African culture held over from the slave trade. There's even a "Brazilian Tyrol" in the alpine...
...happened, Noble's grand ambitions for change were well timed: he began work just 10 months before 9/11, yet he was alerted about the attacks not by U.S. officials but by a frantic phone call from his brother in New Hampshire. "He said: 'Ronnie, did you see what happened in New York?'" Noble recalls. He hadn't. He turned on CNN just in time to see the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "That's when we knew the world had changed for Interpol," he says. "We went 24/7 that day." Noble immediately instituted round-the-clock monitoring...
...decided to set the production in the 1920s and all 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...
...this past weekend, Brian M. Wan ’08 played in the PokerStars Sunday Million, an online tournament that guarantees a first prize of over $100,000 (don’t rush to that friend request, though—Wan didn’t walk away with the grand prize). But while Law School students may be learning about poker, undergraduates should probably stick to playing for Crimson cash—though Nesson asked Wan to start a Harvard College chapter of GPSTS, the Student Activities Office is doing its best to party-grant this movement, unwilling to recognize...