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...orthodoxy goes, AAAS has never been the same since the departure of its star, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West to the bucolic refuge of Princeton. With him went a peerless academic mind, an architect of intricate and novel theories on the politics and sociology of race that revolutionized our understanding of American society. It is said AAAS will be lucky if it ever recovers from the loss...
...Austen’s capacity to see insightfully into character is peerless,” said Harper, who questioned Summers’ own character in his resignation letter...
Today S.A.B. is in effect the national academy of ballet, offering priceless schooling to those who survive its competitive rigors. It was nourished in part by Balanchine's inspired choice of zealous teachers, many of them Russian, and by his fecundity in providing peerless ballets for children to employ their little fund of steps (The Nutcracker) or to aspire to (Serenade, a signature work he began within ten weeks of the school's opening). Starting in 1963, the school also benefited from then unprecedented grants of nearly $6 million from the Ford Foundation, which allowed it to recruit the best...
...effortless technique of Melba, formidable in the mad scene from a 1901 Lucia di Lammermoor. Here is the Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi, the first Cavaradossi, ringing the rafters with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calv, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (ne Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brnnhildes in history. And here, in his only...
...French and European pride - President Jacques Chirac hustled down to Airbus' Toulouse headquarters to congratulate staff - the company got a jolt when Air Canada bought 14 of Boeing's 787 Dreamliners, part of an order worth more than $5 billion. The Dreamliner seats 223-300, and Boeing promises peerless fuel efficiency. Air India ordered 50 Dreamliners of its own for $7 billion. Airbus responded with reminders that the Dreamliner is still in the concept phase, leaving its performance and delivery dates unknown. But the share price of Airbus' parent, EADS, still dropped 2.35% on analyst fears that Airbus invested...