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When Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 auditioned for her first play the summer before high school, a local production of “The Tempest,” it may have been difficult to divine where her nascent ambitions would bring her. “I auditioned and I really screwed up my audition,” she says. “I completely blanked on the monologue, but they forgave me, I suppose, and decided to give me a chance.” Last-minute cast shuffling left her with a turn as King Alonso...
...media and consumers of Europe and the United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
...turns out that Obama's nascent career peddling hope is a family business. He inherited it. And while it is true that he has not been profoundly tested, he was raised by someone...
...political parties and government officials are not familiar with this new situation, so it takes time to settle things," says Jun Iio, a professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. But how long does Japan have? While some might chalk up the gridlock to the nascent stages of an emerging two-party democracy, others blame both the LDP and the DPJ for a lack of concern over issues that have both domestic and global ramifications...
...used to taking a leadership role. But today the 24-year-old student has more responsibility than ever: he heads a nationwide coalition of students bent on safeguarding their country's democracy. An international-studies major at Central University of Venezuela, Snchez is a star in a nascent movement, one that is making itself felt in a political system critics say has vested inordinate power in one man: President Hugo Ch?...