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...conveying the rapidly changing emotions that Otello experiences over the course of the production, but sometimes these shifts were overly dramatic. His singing, which occasionally pushed his voice to its limits, was by and large an impressive performance. The production’s hero was the orchestra, under the keen direction of Channing Yu ’93. Yu was able to channel all the energy of the 80 member ensemble into moments that spanned the entire emotional spectrum—from sheer joy to complete misery. The sound produced by the orchestra was stylish, heartfelt, and on the whole...
...will turn "a new page" on Latin America and "put aside traditional U.S. insistence on a narrow, one-sided approach that focuses almost exclusively on free trade and the drug war." Like most Latin leaders, Lula wants Obama to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. And he is keen (he may be disappointed) to see the U.S. throw its weight behind a last effort to save the Doha round of world trade talks, which could offer farm-export nations such as Brazil new opportunities...
...qualities that helped eastern Europeans survive more than four decades of communist rule was a keen sense of irony. The sentiment was on show even as the old system of central control began to unravel and democracy and capitalism rushed in. The summer and fall of 1989 were full of passionate protestors and revolutionary honesty. But the millions of people who ripped open the Iron Curtain generally did so with an eyebrow cocked at what was replacing their decayed regimes. In the street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins...
...Sometimes these protectionist clauses are not included in the original bills sent by executives to a country’s legislatures—and yet they creep in, in the form of amendments and edits. In America, for instance, the incoming Obama administration was so keen on passing the ARRA around Valentine’s Day that the final version of the bill got passed in PDF format; not all legislators had a final version of the 700-page document they were passing, which, as it turns out, will help create a federal deficit this year that would...
...noticed the difference when a man dropped the “H Bomb” versus when a woman did, saying that the casual drop of the H-bomb is a golden ticket for the Harvard men, while a gross turn-off if mentioned by women. Other students were keen to debate the issue further. Jarell L. Lee ’10, said he had enjoyed the event and that it had helped him to gain a new perspective on the issue of the masculinity. “When I was high school...