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First and foremost, I want my president to be qualified to perform the extremely complex tasks associated with the job. Religious devotion should not be a precondition for or an impediment to the presidency. It is irresponsible to vote for a candidate solely because he or she represents the mirror image of one's religious beliefs. That does not make someone qualified to be President. PAULA ECKELS Wilmington, Mass...
...71st floor of Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, De Waart led the orchestra in a short piece by John Adams. Then the intense, affable maestro spelled out his grandiose ambitions: De Waart, 63, one of the world's most accomplished and sought-after conductors, announced that he wants to perform a complete cycle of Mahler's symphonies in 2011, the centenary of the composer's death, and that he plans to present an opera in concert every year, culminating in a performance of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs, the most challenging work in the Western musical canon...
...death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says. "Right now, we have a gigantic venue problem in Hong Kong?we must book soloists years in advance, but when they show up, we can't be sure of where they will perform." Indeed, a few days after he met the press, De Waart conducted a concert of works by Ives, Schumann and Brahms at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, a richly detailed performance that confirmed the conductor's masterly influence on an orchestra?as well as the acoustic limitations of the hall...
...later, the movie is finally out?and Akhtar has cut Bachchan entirely from the scene, the superstar eclipsed by a tin mug that jumps and spills with the whump of the shells. "Oh God, man, that cup of tea," groans Akhtar today. "Hours, man, hours, to get it to perform...
Ever since Reagan's departure from the political stage, G.O.P. candidates have been trying to summon his image and perform the magic of uniting their party's disparate factions, from libertarians to religious conservatives to Big Business, under one tent. Don't forget that Reagan also left that imprint on another charismatic actor who now sits in the Governor's chair in California. As he tries to find his way out of a nasty fiscal crisis, Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking lessons from the Reagan playbook all the time. "They both have extraordinary personal charm," observes Ken Khachigian, Reagan's former...