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...friends, by e-mail.) The filming took place in the dance studio, which a friend of Shields was able to reserve for the filming. The studio was perfect, Shields said, because the mirrored wall made it seem like there were more dancers than were actually present. In the pitch-black room, accents of white flashed as the dancing silhouettes moved around a passionately singing Shields. Occasionally, the camera stopped rolling as Shields took a moment to adjust the lighting or strobe light speed. From behind the camera, Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, who directed the video, choreographed...
...Deal--era Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes once derided as Alaska's "gambling spirit." Palin is now rolling the dice on the national stage with a political persona based in part on her willingness to challenge the big oil companies. To many Americans, it's an appealing pitch, and Palin's record suggests that she has stuck to her guns more than most. But it's also true that her zeal has produced mostly short-term political gains rather than lasting results--and she has been forced, in some cases, to do business with the same companies she originally...
...address the way in which this is a gender issue. Female undergraduates face far more threats to their safety and are assaulted at much higher rates than men. Blue light stations provide little consolation for the real fear women regularly face at night as they walk alone through pitch-black streets, passing threatening alleys every few yards. Surely, women must take some degree of responsibility for their personal security—a pitfall of some women’s advocacy groups is that they inaccurately envision a world in which women may travel as freely as men without worries?...
...Shawn Haviland hasn’t pinched himself yet, it’s because he has always imagined himself at this point: still doing what he loves, still holding onto a chance to pitch his way, rung-by-rung, up the ladder of a major league baseball organization...
...Arizona, the goal is to fill in the gaps in the righty’s repertoire: bring up the velocity on his fastball and develop a definitive third pitch. A’s coaches greeted their low-A prospect by telling him that he couldn’t use his curveball or his splitter as long as he was there. Only fastballs and cutters were allowed...