Word: lites
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...says that Arts First is a “great opportunity for [Collegium Underground] to gain experience performing as a new group.” Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., another co-ed a capella group, A Capella Anonymous, will perform, as will the all-male Glee Club Lite. Glee Club Lite’s conductor, Richard C. Lonsdorf ’06, spoke about his group’s expansive repertoire which includes pop, jazz, and doo-wop. “You never quite know what to expect to hear,” he says. Lonsdorf sees...
...western France, the chateau-owning de Villiers initially attracted more pragmatic royalists and upper-class rightists than he did hardened reactionies. Long unwilling to taint himself with the snarling language and mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that - and not just with his trademark warning of a nefarious "Islamization of France." With Le Pen uncharacteristically quiet and politically dormant since reaching the run-off in the 2002 presidential race, de Villiers' has been busy trying to win National Front voters over with...
...early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable stories to come from Africa's first-ever entry in the 154-year-old America's Cup, yachting's most prestigious - and the international sport's oldest - prize. Burricks is part of Team Shosholoza, a young, racially diverse South African crew defying the odds...
Most of the 60 million people who voted against George W. Bush have lifestyles more like mine than the Democratic Party would like to admit. Most of us aren't the Hollywood lite or the nontraditional family. Many of us do what I do, which is go to church on Sunday, work hard and value my marriage. Again, it's not so much my party's platform that rejects the family; God help us all if Bush's brutality to the poor continues much longer. It's a small but very vocal minority, the Democratic pundits, who abhor what...
...government appears committed to further progress. Last week, the Communist Party congress, an eight-day leadership conference held once every five years, opened in Hanoi with the political élite promising to accelerate economic reforms and tackle corruption. But it remains to be seen whether bureaucrats will be able to change. "People used to joke in the late 1990s that Vietnam never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity," says Fred Burke, managing partner of the U.S. law firm Baker & McKenzie. "I hope it won't be true this time." Workers like Nhan, who is going to work...