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...with mounting the production. “I admire this group of students who have dared to delve into Lorca’s universe, which is so complex and so intense.”The first obstacle Teatro faced was casting. “Automatically, you limit your talent pool,” said Hanley. “There is a good third of the cast for whom Spanish is an absolute second language. Their progress and talent have been amazing.” The actors said that it is challenging to play a role in a foreign language...
...Each year nearly 400 applicants vie for a handful of openings in Expos, and we are able to hire competitively from an applicant pool that boasts both active professional writers with extensive publication credits and scholars with J.D.s and Ph.D.s in literary studies, history, biological and cultural anthropology, and philosophy. Our preceptors have their degrees from the best graduate programs in the country—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania, to name just a few. They come to Expos with a compelling combination...
...licensed for the entire community, which creates even more problems. “This being decentralized Harvard, we then have some fairly complicated committees and oversight structures to allocate costs across all of Harvard’s faculties and schools, since there isn’t a central pool of funds that would cover these sorts of expenses,” Hazen writes. Other problems include preserving digital literature. According to Darnton, “No one has solved the problem of preserving such material while hardware and software change at a dizzying pace.” The current, short...
...That's because thoroughbred ownership has become easier for ordinary investors due to the proliferation of risk-sharing joint ventures called syndicates. The proposition is simple: syndicates allow up to 50 people to pool their money and collectively purchase, maintain and race thoroughbreds, and to share in the winnings. In the U.K., the British Horseracing Authority hopes such schemes will expand the sport's middle-class base. A few hundred pounds can give enthusiasts an insider's privileges, landing them not only a stake in a horse, but also access to the paddock, pre-race chats with trainers and jockeys...
...that Shell’s funds will indeed be used in collaborative and multidisciplinary projects. A model to emulate is the Stem Cell Institute, which successfully integrates scholars and techniques from across the university. In this respect, we hope that the Shell donation will not just be a funding pool that will serve many different needs but that instead it will force people currently separated by institutional boundaries to work together...