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...Lachlainn provided the audio for Kit Tempest’s choreography of “Teanga Eile/Second Tongue.” MengYuan “Amily” He ’11 and Joffe wore black leotards and tights with a white rope snaked around their bodies. Their modern performance was well-controlled and precisely executed, alternating choppy motions with free-flowing moves.Surprising moments of harmony characterized several of the evening’s other performances. “Through the Looking Glass” (choreographed by Patrick H. Quinn ’10) was a happy and carefree...
...tidy shops and well-kept brick homes, the community of 5,000 boasts an 11th century Anglican church and a grass-banked canal. Along the winding High Street, locals walk their dogs and motorists yield and wave. And quaint charm isn't the whole story. "It's a very modern, forward-thinking place," says ward council member James Kelly...
...Orion’s product and the way in which it is marketed point to a larger issue. With the fervor of anthropologists discovering a new culture, journalists have recently been calling attention to the consumption habits of modern consumers, Man 2.0. These are the people who want to read but don’t have time to, the kind who rush from business meeting to dinner table while frantically typing the next day’s schedule into their PDAs. They’re the ones who read CliffsNotes in high school and read abridged books now, the ones...
History repeats itself not just because of short memories, but because of our instinctual self-centeredness. And since nations are but our own amplified selves, diplomacy, from America to India, triangulates for advantage first and asks questions later. Realpolitik, perfected and made honorable in modern times by the likes of Henry A. Kissinger ’50, is something that diplomats aspire to, not shirk from. There is ample evidence that such diplomacy often comes back to haunt its perpetrators–for example, the consequences of America’s abetment of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s...
Benedict's message of old-fashioned faith in the modern world is itself a call to revolution - or counter-revolution. Only time will tell how many respond to the call...