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...which had only one dusty Steinway. His father gave up his job as a policeman to take the 8-year-old Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. By the time he stepped in for an ailing Andre Watts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival in 1999, the classical establishment was ready to embrace him as a new Evgeny Kissin or even Van Cliburn: a fresh personality with a staggering technique and an engagingly...
Little Touch Leap Pad A spin-off of LeapFrog's popular interactive book, this one is for the crawling, drooling set of 6- to 36-month-olds. Comes with more than 100 lessons; more available at $15 each. leapfrog.com...
...fill our boots at Charleroi without requiring any subsidy at all." "In the short term things could be quite messy, but none of this is going to destroy the Ryanair model," says Goodbody researcher Gill. Ryanair's six-monthly figures announced two weeks ago showed a 45% leap in passengers and 16% in profits. That success is due less to subsidies than to relentless cost control. Now the company is eyeing expensive trunk routes like Milan/Rome and Barcelona/Madrid, where the major airlines rule the roost. So don't put Ryanair on the slag heap just yet. The European Commission...
...dizzying tour through rapidly changing soundscapes, from the epic swells of “Dubs That Don’t Match” to the joyous propulsion of “For Some But Not Me.” It took a visionary like Herren to make the leap from remixing individual songs to remixing his album as a whole, using Extinguished’s textures and sounds to craft a set of completely different songs...
...Creating a non-violent, democratic channel for the expression of Islamist political sentiment may be the key to the long-term transformation of the region away from a political dynamic of authoritarian autocracy vs. extremism and terror. Democracy, however, requires a leap of faith not only on the part of Arab autocrats, but also by the powers that be in Washington. Because as much as a wave of democracy would sweep away the mullahs in Tehran and the neo-Stalinists in Damascus and the deranged dictator in Tripoli who swears he holds no power and is simply...