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Playing the role of the standout musician is not new to Ma, who began learning to play the cello at age four and gave his first concert by age five. But despite his years of stage experience, Ma has never been completely comfortable in the limelight. Even in interviews, it is clear that the soft-spoken Ma would rather not talk about himself...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living Legend | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...council does get the money it seeks, nothing revolutionary is scheduled. Instead of one council-funded hypnotist show, there will be two. Busta Rhymes might be displaced by an artist still enjoying the limelight. Stand-up comedy routines would grace Fallfest...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Vote 'No' on the Fee Hike | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...most revealing witnesses may be two top terrorist hunters who usually avoid the limelight--James Pavitt, the CIA's deputy director of operations, and John Pistole, the FBI's senior counterterrorism executive. They will be asked whether the FBI, CIA and other agencies have really joined forces or whether post-9/11 reforms have been treated as make-work projects for agencies that deeply distrust one another. While 50,000 names from various lookout lists have been loaded into the National Crime Information Center master list, Donna Bucella of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center testified recently that the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Probing The Memo | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...estate agent and a former global promotional marketing manager. But rather than utilize their experience and their brains, these women degenerated from promising potential business gurus to sexually-fixated jokes. For an industry that already has too few female role models, it is unfortunate that the ones in the limelight would decide to stoop...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Female Chauvinism | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...which studios have a thing for, why aren’t there nearly enough of them to go around? It’s logical that for such an involved, multi-tiered process as direction, only a few individuals might rise above the fray and establish themselves in the critical limelight. But there are hundreds of decent novelists churning out product on a weekly basis, and yet consistently accomplished screenwriters are few and far between...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: How to Cure the Blockbuster Syndrome | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

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