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...totally surprised me! I'm a superstitious Greek peasant so I never count my goats before they hatch. As for our future plans, we're looking to build on what we're doing by adding more video, more investigative pieces, more satiric content. And we've just added a new section that covers everything but politics. Using as its springboard the themes in my new book, On Becoming Fearless, the section contains blog posts, news stories, and special features on relationships, work, parenting, health, sex, food, entertainment... in other words, life...
...Core area can come around to bite you in the ass if you aren’t careful. Some take a lot of planning to make them manageable (Lit and Arts C is full of landmines that’ll have you tackling the genesis of the archetypical peasant in Russian literature for a semester), but a few Core areas aren?...
...parts in falsetto and doing an improvised dance routine to demonstrate rhythm and emphasis. "We leave you with feelings of plea-sure," he sings, with a sideways jerk of the hips. "Rehearsals are always fun," says accountant Jeanette Oberg, 47, who has a small solo part as Giulia, a peasant girl. "The choir members are always on the alert for anything that can be turned into a joke...
...possible, sewing. "Ladies, we need your waist measurement and skirt length," says Valerie Campbell, 67, who doubles as wardrobe mistress. She holds up one of the peasant costumes the chorus women will wear in the Aug. 24-27 performances: "We'll have a sewing bee and cut them out; then everyone will take theirs home and sew it up." The men, who are outnumbered three to one-"we should get a medal," jokes Ken Martin-are building a gondola. "It's hard work," says Campbell, "but it brings us all together." And "what else are you going to do?" says...
...anguish among Chinese over dogs being culled may well be proxy for the poor, defenseless fellow citizens that the Chinese are not encouraged to sympathize with or given the opportunity to have feelings for. If Chinese papers were allowed, for example, to report on Chen Guangcheng, a blind peasant activist who's been repeatedly beaten and is now in jail for standing up for the victims of illegal forced abortions and who's due to go on trial on trumped-up charges of destroying public property this month, I'm sure his case would generate public outcry too. Right...