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...their audience: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil, Loretta Lynn growing up a coal miner's daughter. (If only Sid and Nancy had a reality show.) Who a singer is and how he or she lived don't just drive the audience's interest but, at best, inform the performance. In Porgy and Bess, for instance, Clara sings Summertime to her baby during a storm that will claim the child's father in a boat accident. Barrino says she never heard the famous lullaby before singing it on Idol. But as a young single mother...
...likely to endorse additional educational efforts to inform students about the hazards of dangerous drinking, improved intervention and counseling services, and better communication of critical policies,” Badaracco wrote in an e-mail...
...story, The Iliad, is the epic poem of the Trojan War, set off when Paris, a Trojan prince, settles a dispute among three goddesses and is rewarded with Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. The goddesses neglect to inform Paris that Helen is married, and Agamemnon, brother of Helen's husband and king of the Greeks, sends 1,000 ships to Troy to get her back. Paris--a lover not a fighter--asks his noble brother Hector to defend him and the rest of Troy while the Greeks rally behind the demigod Achilles, the world's greatest warrior...
...time when the latest Gallup poll shows that some 55 percent of Americans now disapprove of the President's handling of the situation in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib scandal puts a cloud over Rumsfeld's career - particularly when administration officials inform the press that he has been reprimanded by the president. The administration may also see a need to reassure America's closest allies, who have given the U.S. the benefit of the doubt in legal gray areas and whose trust has been eroded, that strong action is being taken. But axing the tough-talking executive charged with executing...
Efforts have been made by the curricular review’s administration—headed by Wolcowitz and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71—to inform the student body of the issues at stake. But Green said student response so far has been disappointingly tepid...