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While Ghosn called the shots, Kazutoshi Mizuno, chief vehicle engineer and chief product specialist, choreographed the GT-R's journey from a Japanese concept to Germany's famed Nürburgring racetrack, where it clocked 0 to 60 m.p.h. (100 km/h) in 3.2 sec., a wink faster than Porsche's GT3. "Mizuno was responsible for cherry-picking those he wanted to work with," says Hiroshi Hasegawa, chief designer of the GT-R. "Information cascaded from him." A veteran racing-system developer and director, Mizuno asked Ghosn to allow for a race-car development method. He started in December 2003, using early...
...focused his musicalcareer on celebrating and developingAmerican music, and he shared hisstory at the event, co-sponsored by theOffi ce for the Arts’ Learning from Performersseries and the Harvard AmericanMusic Association.The embodiment of the Americanoptimism for O’Connor is the settlingof the Western frontier,a journey for somethingbetter that permeateshis music. Duringthe eventO ’ C o n n o rplayed his“ F i d d l eConcerto,”which incl u d e ssegmentst h a tm i m i cgalloping and other sounds that create a sense ofwide open...
...increasingly difficult to get, Reina convinces Marlon - using sexual seduction powers that make Salome seem like a nun - that they should pay a Medellin travel agency, Paraiso Travel, $3,000 for what could be called the illegal alien package. It's a flight to Panama and then a Dantean journey by bus and foot to the U.S., through squalid hotels and scorching deserts - including nightmarish hours hidden by smugglers in a truckload of suffocating, hollowed-out logs. Paraiso Travel's screenwriters, Franco and Juan Rendon, interviewed a number of real migrants who have made the journey. "I'm fortunate...
...moral identity for each student. With too many students focusing on the bottom line, GPAs, test scores, job offers, and extracurricular activities, adding a broader perspective of why students attend college or earn a degree will only make them appreciate more the position in which they find themselves. A journey with a destination is much easier to navigate than one without, and with this program in place students will be ushered along a more purposeful track...
...figure.”RodrĂguez, who is writing her dissertation on Chekhov’s contributions to drama, also sought to express the elusiveness of his writing. The play revolves around six historical characters, all related to Chekhov’s life, that have made a journey to a strange garden. Realizing that it is Chekhov’s garden, they wait for the legendary master to arrive. The six characters—who include Maxim Gorky, Chekhov’s celebrated contemporary, and Vera Komissarzhevskaya, the most famous Russian actress of Chekhov’s time?...