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...with extraneous acrobatics and melodies that struck European ears as atonal and arhythmic. Western opera - with its volume and bombast - fell similarly flat in the East. But since Western ways were the planet's dominant ones, it was China that was open to learning from the outside. "If a poor country wanted to develop, it had to follow the West," says composer and conductor Guo Wenjing who performed at this year...
It’s amazing how far Harvard will go on Freshmen Parents’ Weekend to give the poor froshies’ families the impression that this place is way better than it really is: great food in Annenberg, captivating panel discussions, and the Lions...
...This kind of Hope, in time will span across oceans to other historically marginalized and subjugated minorities. Already in Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves, poor little boys on crutches, dismembered by wars of intolerance, are wobbling across the soccer field wearing “Yes, We Can!” t-shirts...
...default, the past now loses power: for the moment, it feels as if we've left behind the baby-boomer battles of the past 40 years; the culture wars that took us prisoner and cut us off from what we have in common; the tribal warfare between rich and poor, North and South, black and white; and the illusion, if anyone still harbored it after the past eight years, that what happens in Washington does not affect what happens everywhere else...
Most of all, Salter repeatedly praised McCain, a man for whom he has worked for 19 years, and for whom he has boundless respect. He recalled traveling with McCain to Iowa and New Hampshire after his campaign collapsed in 2007 under the weight of mismanagement and poor fund-raising. "There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence - this is what I set out to do, and I will do this. And if I fail, I fail - but no one will tell me I failed until I have," Salter said. "That must be kind of a glimpse of a kind...