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...don’t want to break any traditions—we want to innovate the traditions,” says Maria Luisa F. Mansfield of the Institute for Urban Development, who acts as a bridge between the Harvard Ceramics Program and Casas de la Esperanza...

Author: By Stephanie M Bucklin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ceramics 101: The Art of Change | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

California has the dubious distinction of ranking second, just behind Florida, in the number of lethal and nonlethal attacks against homeless people last year. It recorded 22, but, says Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the actual number of attacks is likely even higher because many are never reported. After a huge increase in 2006 - 65%, some of which is attributed to the video Bumfights, in which people who live on the street are pitted against one another - last year still saw an increase of 13%. Street people, says Foscarinis, live "outside, so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violence Against the Homeless: Is It a Hate Crime? | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) calls up the dusky shadows and sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent pursuing the hides of harts and the hearts of women—sometimes both at once. It is a piece of extraordinary vigor that makes one understand why John McCain would choose a backwoods Alaskan huntress as his running mate. Or at least it should do all of this.But in Opera Boston?...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Opera Boston Misses Its Mark with ‘Der Freischütz’ | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...This is Ortega's main vulnerability, which is making it very difficult for him to recapture the image of the great Latin American revolutionary leader like Fidel Castro," said Maria Teresa Blandon, an activist with Nicaragua's Feminist Movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Ortega vs. the Feminists | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...could be trite and crude in the hands—or rather feet—of another. “Liturgy,” choreographed by Chistopher Wheeldon, was billed as the highlight of the evening, by virtue of the two stars on loan from New York City Ballet, Maria Kowroski and Albert Evans. Kowroski, in a startling flesh-colored leotard fashioned like a bikini, had the unenviable task of taking on a role created on Wheeldon’s muse Wendy Whelan, largely inimitable in her otherworldly, limbless, spider-like movement. “Liturgy,” however...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ballet’s Kaleidoscopic ‘Night of Stars’ | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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