Word: metropolitane
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While the Dunster dining hall is no Metropolitan Opera House, operatic productions at Harvard still demand a great deal of time and student commitment. In addition to the singers and directors, students act as producers, writers, set designers, lighting designers, stage managers, and orchestra members. Many of these students take part in several operatic performances throughout the year...
...square of which managed to be arresting without quite being beautiful, distinctive without quite being iconic. His later commissions embodied Japan's re-emergence as an increasingly confident economic power: the sweeping National Gymnasium Complex for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games; the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka; the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in 1991; and the 1996 Fuji TV Building, built on a gigantic landfill development in Tokyo...
...cool stuff. Local artisans copied and reinterpreted foreign objects, and wealthy Chinese connoisseurs were entombed with their collections so that they could continue to enjoy them even in the afterlife. Those that have surfaced, writes James C. Y. Watt, who curated the exhibit for its first run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last fall, reveal "a wondrous world born of an ancient civilization and transformed by the acceptance of the many cultures that came into its orbit...
...police arrived from Hopewell, three and a half miles away, summoned at once by the excited parents. By various police leaks the contents of the ransom note and its identifying "token"--a simple affair used often by criminals the world over--was soon in the hands of most metropolitan newspapers and news services. Hundreds of newsmen discussed it though they did not publish...
Colorado legislator Bob Hagedorn admits that when he proposed Senate Bill 85 in December, he was thinking of himself. In the wake of last fall's polarizing race for the White House, Hagedorn, a Democrat who is also a political-science professor at Metropolitan State College in Denver, grew more and more worried about saying the wrong thing as his students debated contentious issues like George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative and the teaching of creationism in schools. Earlier in the year, students had filed bias complaints against a colleague who had criticized Republicans. "I'm thinking...