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...much more substantive production than a bunch of young adults breaking out in song in the middle of their day; it is a rock musical that realistically and thoroughly portrays the current of emotions from those college years and beyond.An original rock musical written and composed by Zoe S. N. Sarnak ’09 and directed by Jordan A. Reddout ’10, “The Quad” explores the tumults of the college experience against a background of upbeat rock music and piano music. Although it is made by college students, performed by college students...
...Oddly enough, the two characters having the conversation are also named Adam (Rory N. Kulz ’08) and Eve (Julia L. Renaud ’09), both students under the tutelage of the older Feynman. They meet in class, they fall in love, they have a baby. Adam, a painter who hasn’t figured out how to grow up, makes a joke about naming the kid Cain. Theirs is the show’s most affecting relationship...
...sign of the changing times was the recent high-class produce market chef Alain Ducasse organized at the Plaza Athénée Hôtel, where guests met the producers of the otherworldly fruits and vegetables Ducasse serves at his eponymous three-star restaurant, www.alain-ducasse.com: from Buddha's hand citron to rare Ligurian purple asparagus. Ducasse says his love of rare and impeccable ingredients grew from an early exposure to Mediterranean produce. But when he left for the capital in 1996, a multi-course homage to the vegetable like the Jardins de Provence menu he'd served since...
...March from a year earlier, while those to the U.S. and EU fell 31% and 22%, respectively. "China is definitely coming on line and re-activating its call on the Asia supply chain," says Glenn Maguire, chief Asia-Pacific economist for Société Générale in Hong Kong. "That's clearly a positive...
...exports are still greatly reduced from levels seen a year ago, so the improving statistics don't necessarily herald a full-scale economic revival. Japan's March exports to the U.S., for example, were less than half the amount sold a year earlier. Société Générale's Maguire says that he is encouraged by the recent figures, but not enough to drastically alter his outlook on Asia's overall growth. "We've definitely seen the low, the worst of the collapse of demand," says Maguire, "but we shouldn't be looking...