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...British choreographer Wayne McGregor, whose credits include Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as groundbreaking new works for dance, theater and opera companies, is keen to throw open the doors of those upstairs rooms. "A choreographer is someone who's engaged with physical thinking," he says. "Someone who's applying the technology of the body to concepts and philosophies...
Some of Britain's most distinguished journalists genuflected to John McCain as he emerged from his first meeting with Gordon Brown on Thursday morning. Observers later reported that the meeting had been a workmanlike affair, 45 minutes long and short on chitchat. Both politicians appeared keen to cut straight to the burning issues of the day: Iraq (a polite disagreement over Britain's plans to scale down its troop deployment), Afghanistan (praise for Britain's role and concern over the challenges), climate change (a bad thing), Tibet ("very disturbing," said McCain afterwards). For Brown, it was an opportunity...
...artists on EMI's books have yet to come back with a recording, and sliding CD sales mean that overall, only 3% of the label's artists are profitable. "The actual economic power of new music is declining at an extraordinary rate," says EMI's Hands. Keen to keep it alive, he is mulling changes to the way EMI's artists are rewarded. Out could go generous advances for some artists - "an excuse for us to lose more," he calls such payments. Instead, some expect him to experiment with salaries or even day rates for artists cloistered in the studio...
...surge as a necessary step to achieving political stability in Iraq. “Most certainly the surge has worked in cutting sectarian violence down,” Feng said, calling the Democrats’ suggestion for multinational diplomacy to stabilize Iraq a “peachy keen solution that doesn’t work in the long run or the real world.” “I ask you: if we were not to have troops there, what would happen?” Feng added. Democrats and Republicans also butted heads on what they believed should...
...100th anniversary this year?Concord has produced timepieces for world leaders and, owing in part to its advancements with quartz watches in the 1970s, has been at the vanguard of engineering. But in recent years, public perception of the brand has veered toward the staid side of traditional. Keen to shed that reputation, Concord has taken a bold step, discontinuing production of every one of its many models, eschewing quartz and focusing all its efforts on the launch of the C1, a high-tech 44-mm chronograph with a 53-piece case. Says Concord's U.S. president, Alex Grinberg: "With...