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...Administration likes to stress that congressional leaders were briefed about the new program from the start. But some of them object that they were told about it under ground rules that made it impossible for them to mount any opposition. Daschle tells TIME that he, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt, then House minority leader, were briefed in early 2002 by Cheney. There was a second briefing in 2004. "A couple of us expressed our concerns," Daschle says. "But the information we were given was more technical and less substantive. We were told we were being informed...
...Jarrett, daughter Lori Jarrett (the company's CEO) and son-in-law Ram Sethuraman (director of the company's board) got VirtuosoWorks off the ground could make its own opera--not off-Broadway but offshore. It's a tale about the possibilities and perils of outsourcing. It begins in the 1980s, when Jarrett, a music professor, created MusicPrinter Plus, a program to compose music onscreen and play it back on a synthesizer. He updated his program to eliminate the need for a synthesizer, allowing users to write music, then play and conduct it, all on a laptop. Jarrett's daughter...
...great theater. Explain. OK. This martial-arts extravaganza from Cirque du Soleil (playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas) is performed on, and above, two revolving platforms. As the artists cavort on a boat, or fight a battle, or swing through a forest scene, the ground is literally moving under their feet. As conceived by Robert Lepage, the innovative Canadian writer-director, the $165 million action musical is unquestionably the most technically complex show ever devised, achieving marvels Broadway is too timid and strapped even to dream of. The first Cirque spectacle with a story line, KA traces...
...ones,” Harris said.The 6’8 freshman’s athleticism in the low post posed one of the few matchup problems for the Eagles (8-2) all night. Harris hauled in five offensive rebounds, using his long arms to cover more ground underneath the basket.“He certainly played very well tonight in a game where he was up against bigger, stronger people,” Sullivan said. “He got to rebounds out of his space, and he wasn’t afraid to take the ball to the basket...
...union has also made it clear that the strike was not just about dollars and cents, but about respect as well. The workers, Toussaint intoned, deserve to be noticed, not to mention appreciated, for their endless toil below ground, among the rats and the steel dust. The notice they gained this week, however, looked at times more like notoriety-from commuters carping about the relatively high transit worker salary to angry blogs posting pictures of various station agents sleeping in their booths before the strike. But on this morning, however, forgiveness was in the close subway station...