Word: performancy
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...month, much more than most laborers. "We are creating an entrepreneurial middle class," says Khoja. Roshan is also helping to entertain the masses by sponsoring one of Afghanistan's most popular TV shows, a knockoff of American Idol called Afghan Star, which follows aspiring celebrities as they perform for a national audience. Viewers vote for their favorites by sending messages via their mobile phones. The revenue generated by the additional traffic is split between Roshan and programmer Tolo...
...sleep. It is also often the beginning of an arduous process of more tests and in some cases surgical procedures. The only way to be absolutely sure about cancer is to examine some of the suspicious cells under a microscope. That means a biopsy. And in the U.S. we perform more than a million breast biopsies a year. The results come back normal 8 times...
...antique lenses, of the kind directors were obliged to use a half-century ago. By golly, if he shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...
...Crimson has one other thing going for it: freshman Jeremy Lin. In last year’s matchup with the Raiders, then-freshman guard Drew Housman exploded for a season-best 21 points. 15 of those came in the second frame. Lin has shown a similar ability to perform down the stretch so far in his rookie season. In the final seconds of overtime against UNH, he stole a Wildcats inbounds pass and took it the length of the court for the game-winning basket. Unless Colgate learned its lesson last year about the need to watch out for Harvard...
...other than their love for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, with the first patron letter requesting a modest five dollar donation. Since then, HRG&SP has grown into an organization that has involved over 5000 people throughout the years, and produces one of the most popular, best funded performances each semester. Though HRG&SP is less widely known than some other theater groups on campus, such as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, it has a steady following of devoted members.According to President of HRG&SP Casey M. Lurtz ’07, “[HRG&SP is] well known...