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...tenets of tragic opera would naturally hold a dire fate for lovers from disparate worlds like Dionysos and Lily. But when the ghosts of Carmen, Butterfly and Norma visit Dionysos in his sleep singing "Opera always kills its lovers," Dionysos brushes off their calls for a proper opero-tragic suicide. "He doesn't want anything to do with that Valhalla tradition celebrating tragedy, pain and death," says Teodori. "And neither do I." It's one of the opera's more effective conceits, and Nieve's arias shine with what one applauding critic called "a true musicologist's reflection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Night at the Opera with Sting and Elvis | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...Many of these talks took place at the Harvard Book Store Café on Newbury Street, which has since closed. The Boston Public Library and Cambridge First Parish Church—which can hold 700 people—have also hosted Harvard Book Store visitors...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life in Books Recalled | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...annually for a family of four, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. An estimated 36.5 million Americans currently live below the poverty line, but those numbers will probably increase by as many as 10.3 million if current projections for the depth and duration of the recession hold true. According to the center's analysis, the number of poor children will grow by as many as 3.3 million. And the number of children in deep poverty, those in families living on less than half the wages of the official poverty line, will climb by as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out of the Bailout: The Poor | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

Gordon did not turn the ball over once and led the Crimson to a dominating hold over the clock. The Elis, who did not get the ball until there were three minutes and twenty-five seconds left in the first quarter, found themselves chasing Harvard the entire game thanks to Gordon’s early touchdown...

Author: By Maxwell E. Storto, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AOTW: Gordon Stomps on Bulldogs in The Game | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...designed to shut down lower value-added production of goods like toys and garments, precisely the area where now, months later, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are losing jobs. In the early 2008 bubbling property market, authorities conveyed to potential house buyers that they would be wise to hold off. "The government basically said, 'You'd be a complete idiot to buy an apartment right now because we're going to make sure that prices drop like a stone,'" says the investment bank analyst. "Now the government is telling them it's not just okay to buy, it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Headed for a Hard Landing? | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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