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...aria at the end of the first act. Her upper register rang out with a brilliance and clarity that was genuinely moving. Unfortunately, her lower register was lost at times amid the roar of the orchestra.The supporting performances, sung by Tines and Selowsky, were also notable. Both illustrated a keen understanding of comedic timing and, when necessary, emotional sensitivity. Tines in particular shone in both his sotto-voce singing and his demonic fury during the graveyard scene.The orchestra, under the direction of a very capable Yuga J. Cohler ’11, provided a solid foundation for the production...
...view, yields on U.S. 10-year Treasury notes will fall to between 1.5% and 2% by the end of 2009. This is because the banks are broken and their customers are keen to spend less. The monetary base, the money element that the Fed can control, is a fraction of credit outstanding in the U.S. system ($2 trillion versus $47 trillion). No matter how fast base money is pumped up, the reduction in credit outstanding will overwhelm it. During this phase we should expect credit contraction and its attendant deflationary effects on asset prices and consumer goods and services...
...while short-term costs might seem painful during an economic slump, cities will be keen to press longer-term benefits. "The London 2012 Games will provide economic gold at a time of economic need," Tessa Jowell, Britain's Olympics Minister, wrote in the latest annual report on progress toward 2012. That will mean 100,000 contract jobs to stage the Games - of those currently working on the Olympic site, one-tenth were previously unemployed - with half as many long-term positions created in the park and surrounding area. "The Games remind us," Rogge said on a recent visit to London...
...Many expected this pope to focus on the universal Church and lofty theological treatise. But Benedict has not hesitated to step into the Italian political debate, most notably helping to bury a 2005 referendum on assisted fertility rights. The pontiff is keen to find seeds of Christian vitality in an increasingly secular Europe. And while most Italians are all but secular in their day-to-day lives, the Catholic Church and the pope's pulpit remain powerful forces in Italy's domestic politics. Upon word of Englaro's death, the Vatican's chief of health-related issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano...
...have a special love of studio seminars and the other small literature-based seminars, which don’t have as high a profile as some of the other seminars out there do,” says Rohse. “But they have a very keen group of students.” Damon H. Krukowski, who teaches the popular studio-based seminar “Noisy Art,” believes that the intimate structure of freshman seminars is conducive to the artistic process. His seminar, which incorporates various media into the goal of making art from noise...